MENTOR SCOUT PRESS COVERAGE

Recent coverage of Mentor Scout in the press.

Training Forum	Automated Mentoring Saves Time, Thousands of Dollars June 6, 2011 Human resources professionals at Covance used to spend "hundreds and hundreds of hours of administrative time" manually matching mentees and mentors. By shifting to an automated mentoring system in 2009, covance (www.covance.com), an international drug development company, achieved annual savings of $113,000 ($377 per participant). Automated Mentoring Saves Time, Thousands of Dollars (archived pdf)
Canadian HR Reporter	HRIA’s virtual mentorship program eliminates geographical boundaries 320 members involved enjoy flexibility, sharing experiences. April 27, 2011 The HRIA’s mentorship program was launched in mid-November 2010 and has 320 members with 120 mentor-protegé relationships. Through online software Mentor Scout, members upload a personal profile, answer a series of questions and are appropriately matched to either a mentor or a protegé, said Nora Molina, executive director at HRIA. HRIA’s virtual mentorship program eliminates geographical boundaries (Archived pdf)
Employee Benefit News	Mentor Scout: Match.com for Mentors May 1, 2011 Covance Inc. uses MentorScout to computerize its mentoring program using online system to match employee mentors, mentees; achieves employee satisfaction, relieves HR burden, and saves 75% over manual method. Mentor Scout: Match.com for Mentors
Industrial & Commercial Training	The Hows and Whys of Group Mentoring February 2011 This paper seeks to examine the methodologies for developing a group mentoring component as an add-on to an existing or new corporate mentoring program. The Hows and Whys of Group Mentoring (pdf)
About.com	Tap Into The Power of Mentoring How to Make Mentoring a Win for Employees, Mentors, and Employers January 2011 An interview with Beth N. Carvin, CEO Nobscot Corporation. How to make mentoring a win for employees, mentors, and employers. Tap Into The Power of Mentoring
Training Magazine	Techno-Power Your Mentoring Program When to consider using technology in your mentoring programs. Dec 1, 2010 Corporate mentoring programs can require a significant amount of time to manage, but with the help of technology, administration burdens can be reduced to an easily managed level. Techno-Power Your Mentoring Program
The Training Industry Quarterly	Mentoring Mistakes: 10 Program Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them July 28, 2010 The corporate landscape is littered with mentoring programs that have died on the vine. Management fails to rally behind the project. Mentors decline to sign on or don't know how to proceed if they do. Ill matched mentor-mentee relationships evaporate. Program administration becomes overwhelming. Yet all of these problems are avoidable. Mentoring Mistakes: 10 Program Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Full Release (Archived Copy)
American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)	Group Mentoring: Keys to Success July 28, 2010 Is the increasingly popular strategy of group mentoring right for your organization? Group Mentoring: Keys to Success - Podcast Group Mentoring: Keys to Success - Full Release (Archived Copy)
Earth Times	Group Mentoring Support Now Available in Mentor Scout May 17, 2010 In a major expansion of its widely adopted Web-based mentor/mentee matching and administration platform for corporate mentoring programs, Mentor Scout today announced the addition of a new suite of tools designed to nurture group mentoring initiatives. The Mentor Scout upgrade features new self-service tools to facilitate mentoring group formation and communication as well as administrator enhancements for group oversight, expanding the spectrum of mentoring activities that can be managed with the software. Full Release (at Earth Times) Full Release (Archived Copy)
Entrepreneur Magazine	Who Needs a Mentor? You Do. Someone who's been there, done that can offer invaluable insight. September 3, 2009 If you're an entrepreneur, it's likely you would benefit from having a mentor, suggests mentoring expert Beth Carvin, president and CEO of HR consulting firm Nobscot Corp. A successful woman entrepreneur has probably faced some of the obstacles you're encountering. She's learned what worked and what didn't work and can pass her advice along. "Why reinvent the wheel?" Carvin asks. Full Article (at Entrepreneur Magazine) Full Article (Archived Copy)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	Work Zone: Mentor can see clearly to help in job search Monday, July 20, 2009 Most people think of a mentor as someone who helps them in their early 20s, guiding them toward a path that will help their careers. Full Article (at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Full Article (Archived Copy)
Wall Street Journal	Finding Anchors in the Storm: Mentors January 27, 2009 Without as many opportunities mentoring becomes a more strategic avenue for career development. Full Article
T+D (Training + Development) Magazine	The Great Mentor Match January, 2009 Xerox’s Women’s Alliance cracks the code on successful mentor programs. Every large organization faces a challenge in facilitating career development for diversity and affinity groups. Mentoring is a logical strategy, but mentor recruitment and mentor-mentee matching are often too unwieldy and time-consuming for a volunteer effort in a large company. Full Article at ASTD (.htm) Full Article (.pdf) Listen to the Great Mentor Match podcast: The Great Mentor Match Podcast
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