How many of us are just trying to survive and find connections during a multi-year pandemic? Employee turnover is high. Budgets are tight. And many of us are understaffed. However, we can have years of experience being around supervisors (or dart boards) and not really understand the structure and rules of the game.

For years, I thought that internship programs were posh experiences in financial firms for Ivy League college students. I never thought an internship program was a possibility at our business. Well, I was wrong. Internship programs are great opportunities to recruit talent in highly competitive market.

No matter what training or certification one HR professional might have, nothing could have fully prepared us for the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid movement to a changing workplace. HR professionals, which includes people who may manage HR as one of many responsibilities, have been making critical, life-changing decisions for employees for 15 months. And the change continues.