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We received 102 applications by last Friday’s deadline for Sun’s worldwide Engineering mentoring program, SEED. The SEED Established Staff term will run 15 January – 15 June 2007. All application materials were due 24 November 2006.

79 applications were complete. Tanya Jankot and I spent today checking, sorting, and
making updates based on emails. 25 applicants were disqualified for being too junior or
for not turning in their materials on time. I have sent many emails today returning
late applications, recommendations, and resumes and discouraging further submissions
since we do not accept materials after the deadline.

The selection decisions will be announced tomorrow afternoon. We expect to pick about
40 Established Staff term participants. I have been reading application forms and
letters since Friday. It will be very hard to pick from such an
impressively qualified group.

We have received 79 applications so far to Sun’s worldwide Engineering mentoring
program, SEED. The SEED Established Staff term will run 15 January-16 June 2007.
All application materials are due this Friday, 24 November 2006.

38 of the 79 applications have been completed but 13 others have already been disqualified.
I have sent email to all 13 and to their managers. All were disqualified for being too
junior for an Established Staff term, which requires among other criteria that participants
be at Principal level (Sun U.S. grade 9 equivalent) or above.

I held the last two phone-in presentation-and-question sessions yesterday and today.
Usually, the majority of applications come in during the last three days. We are getting
a good number of applications from outside of the western USA (where Sun headquarters is):

• Central USA: 11 [ 14% ]
• China: 11 [ 14% ]
• Czech Republic: 3 [ 4% ]
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa): 4 [ 5% ]
• Eastern USA: 6 [ 8% ]
• India: 2 [ 3% ]
• Ireland: 1 [ 1% ]
• Russia: 2 [ 3% ]
• United Kingdom: 3 [ 4% ]
• Western USA: 35 [ 44% ]
• no response: 1 [ 2% ]

On 28 November, we will pick up to 40 participants to form SEED’s
Established Staff term. The selection announcement will go to all applicants
and their managers that same day.

We have received 61 applications so far to Sun’s worldwide Engineering mentoring program, SEED. The SEED Established Staff term will run 15 January-16 June 2007. All application materials are due this Friday, 24 November 2006.

21 of the 61 applications have been completed but 8 others have already been disqualified. All were disqualified for being too junior for an Established Staff term, which requires among other criteria that participants be at Principal level (Sun U.S. grade 9 equivalent) or above.

I am holding two more phone-in presentation-and-question sessions this week: today
at 5 p.m. (in about 40 minutes) and tomorrow at 8 a.m., Pacific time. Usually,
the majority of applications come in during the last three days. We are getting
a good number of applications from outside of the western USA:

• Central USA: 10 [ 16% ]
• China: 5 [ 8% ]
• Czech Republic: 2 [ 3% ]
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa): 2 [ 3% ]
• Eastern USA: 5 [ 8% ]
• India: 2 [ 3% ]
• Ireland: 1 [ 2% ]
• Russia: 1 [ 2% ]
• United Kingdom: 3 [ 5% ]
• Western USA: 29 [ 48% ]
• no response: 1 [ 2% ]

On 28 November, we will pick up to 40 participants to form SEED’s
Established Staff term. The selection announcement will go to all applicants
and their managers that same day.

We have received 40 applications so far to Sun’s worldwide Engineering mentoring program, SEED. The SEED Established Staff term will run 15 January-16 June 2007.
All application materials are due this Friday, 24 November 2006.

12 of the 40 applications have been completed but 4 others have already been disqualified. All four were disqualified for being too junior for an Established Staff term, which requires among other criteria that participants be at Principal level (Sun U.S. grade 9 equivalent) or above.

I am holding two more phone-in presentation-and-question sessions this week: tomorrow at
5 p.m. and Wednesday at 8 a.m., Pacific time. Usually, the majority of applications come
in during the last three days. We are getting more applications from outside of the
western USA:

• Central USA: 7 [ 18% ]
• China: 2 [ 5% ]
• Czech Republic: 1 [ 2% ]
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa): 1 [ 2% ]
• Eastern USA: 3 [ 8% ]
• India: 2 [ 5% ]
• Russia: 1 [ 2% ]
• United Kingdom: 3 [ 8% ]
• Western USA: 19 [ 48% ]
• no response: 1 [ 2% ]

About a third of the applicants have applied to a prior SEED term as well. Tanya
Jankot is on vacation this week but we set everything up so that I can manage by
myself.