MENTOR SCOUT PRESS COVERAGE

Recent coverage of Mentor Scout in the press.

Chain Store Age Magazine	Mentoring Programs Branching into Focused Tracts October 2, 2008 Mentoring programs, once embraced as a general initiative to polish employee performance and boost morale, are now sprouting specialty niches. "Today, we are starting to see multiple mentoring programs for different goals and objectives," said Beth Carvin, CEO of Nobscot Corporation. Full Article (.pdf)
Workplace News Magazine	Mentorship: Learning from those in the know July/August 2008 Nobscot's Mentor Scout Mentoring Program assists Xerox Women and newcomers to chart career path. Full Article (.pdf)
New York Post	SOME CORPORATE COUNSEL July 28, 2008 A RISING NUMBER OF NEWBIES GET A BOOST THROUGH MENTORING An ever-growing number of junior employees are getting a similar leg up, through a rising number of corporate programs designed to pair female, minority or gay or lesbian employees with similar mentors. Beth Carvin of Nobscot Corporation, which offers software that allows employees to find a suitable mentor by filling out an online profile, says she's fielding "a huge demand for mentoring programs with midsize and large organizations." Full Article (at NY Post)
Human Resource Executive Magazine	Best Practices in Mentoring June 2, 2008 Here are 12 steps for starting and managing a successful corporate mentoring program by Nobscot Corporation CEO Beth N. Carvin. Full Article (at Human Resource Executive)
Human Resource Executive Magazine	Pivotal Employees June 2, 2008 "One of the biggest mistakes that we make in HR is assuming that everybody wants growth," says Beth Carvin, president and CEO of Nobscot Corp., a Kailua, Hi.-based HR software firm. "Many employees love the work that they do and they don't want to grow. They just want to be treated in a manner that is consistent with the contributions they're making to the organization." Full Article (at Human Resource Executive)
New York Post	Social Networking April 14, 2008 TO UNITE WORKERS, COMPANIES START OWN WEB-STYLE NETWORKING SITES With social networking sites booming in popularity, especially among the younger set, the corporate world is following suit, creating internal networks for employees modeled on Web communities like MySpace and Facebook. "It has to be a managed program," says Carvin. "If you take a MySpace and just slap it into a corporation, you'll get people slacking off." Full Article (at New York Post)
Human Resource Executive Magazine	Top Ten HR Products: Mentor Scout Talent Networking Edition October 2, 2007 Top Ten HR Products: Mentor Scout Talent Networking Edition uses personal profiles and interactive information exchange as a way to facilitate employee communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing and recognition. Why We Like It: Kudos to Mentor Scout for building a solution that engages all workers, but especially millennials, in collaboration and knowledge-sharing processes. Full Article