Nobscot

Nobscot Corporation

Type	Private
Founded	Honolulu, Hawaii (2000)
Headquarters	4840 C Wailapa Road, Kilauea, HI 96754
Key people	Beth N. Carvin, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Products	exit interview management system,new hire survey technology, corporate mentoring software
Website	http://www.nobscot.com

Nobscot is a niche human resources technology company headquartered in Hawaii.^[1] The company develops software to automate the corporate HR process of exit interviewing employees as they terminate from the organization. The company also provides software for new hire surveys and quality of hire surveys.^[2] Its Mentor Scout division develops software to manage corporate and association mentoring programs.^[3][4] Nobscot's customers are mid to large companies ranging from 300 employees to 250,000 employees.

Products

The company’s flagship product is WebExit, an online exit interview management system ^[5] The technology's initial release was in January 2001^[6] and was the first of its kind in the automated exit interview field.^[7] It is provided via a SaaS based model.^[8] A related product, FirstDays, allows companies to survey new hire employees at various intervals in order to help acclimate them with the company and reduce early turnover of employees.^[9] The company’s third product, Mentor Scout, is software for managing corporate mentoring programs and association mentoring programs.^[10]

Locations

Headquartered in Hawaii, Nobscot has remote employees in field offices in 4 states in the United States plus Ontario Canada.^[11]

History

Nobscot was co-founded by Beth N. Carvin and Bruce H. Daly in 2000.^[12] The company was self funded without any outside investment.^[13] Initial clients included First Hawaiian Bank, Campbell Soup Company and Conair Corporation.^[14] The Mentor Scout division ^[15] was created in 2003 to focus on mentoring software for corporations and associations.^[16][17] Nobscot's FirstDays product was released in mid-2008, which was designed to help companies reduce new employee departures.^[18][19] In 2014, Mentor Scout underwent a brand redesign working with BigFan a design agency out of Bristol UK.^[20][21]

Recognition

In 2001, Nobscot's WebExit was awarded the Top 10 HR Technology Products of the Year award by HR Executive Magazine.^[22][23] In 2007, the company won the Top HR and Training Award for Mentor Scout, Talent Networking Edition.^{[24][25][26][27]} In 2015, Nobscot CEO Beth N. Carvin was invited to speak at the Hawaii Venture Capital Association forum, entitled "Women in Technology."^[28]

Mentor of The Year Award

In 2011, Nobscot began its global "Mentor of the Year" award recognition. The Mentor of the Year Award is chosen from hundreds of nominees—and from a pool of more than 5000 mentors worldwide. The judging criteria includes mentorship activities, support, introduction to network and end results.^[29] Since its inception, winners of the competition are as follows:

Partners

Partners include SilkRoad, Inc.,^[41] Glasstap,^[42] Mentor Leadership Team (MLT) and MeetingSift^[43]

Notes

Further reading

• "Turning Baby Boomer Retirements From A Challenge Into an Opportunity" LinkedIn Pulse, 23 March 2016.
• "R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Find Out What it Means to Your Employees" Nobscot.com, 28 October 2015.
• "Tracking Employee Turnover: There’s Finally an App for That" ITBUsinessEdge, 23 January 2014.
• "In The Battle To Keep Their Best Employees, Leaders Need To Know What Really Matters" Forbes, 14 December 2013.
• "Using Exit Interviews to Prevent Disaster" Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM), 5 April 2013.
• "Professional Mentorship: A Look into the Xerox Women’s Alliance" Recruiter.com, 4 April 2013.
• "Do you have time to be a mentor?" Fortune 31 January 2013.
• "Valuable Goodbyes: The key to making exit interviews worthwhile, experts say, is not just in accumulating interview data, but in analyzing and using it to identify and address turnover issues in your organization." Human Resources Executive, 8 November 2012.
• "Didn't Get a Promotion?" The Wall Street Journal, 19 August 2012.
• "Listening to New Kids on the Block" Human Resource Executive, 1 April 2011.
• "Turning Exits Into Insight" Talent Management Magazine, 22 March 2011.
• "HREvolution - Nobscot Corporation" HR RingLeader, 11 May 2010.
• "Getting The Last Word: Best Practices in Exit Interviewing" SHRM HR Magazine, 1 January 2010.
• "Effective Exit -Interview Strategies" Human Resources Executive, 2 September 2009.
• "Finding Anchors in the Storm: Mentors" The Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2009.
• "Ways to Make the Most of a Negative Job Review" The Wall Street Journal, 13 January 2009.
• "Work Zone: Layoffs spur emotions in those left on the job" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 30 June 2008.
• "Before you go, click here" Canadian HR Reporter, 17 July 2006.
• "What to Tell the Company as You Walk Out the Door" New York Times, 27 November 2005.
• "Home Schooling: Web-based program helps Home Depot match employees with mentors" Stores Magazine, November 2005.
• "Turnover Turnaround" Information Week, 18 March 2005.

External links

• Official website
• Official website