How a persevering hospitality manager unemployed by Covid-19 effects plans a major career comeback — Earlier this year, Elexis’s phone buzzed with an incoming call as she was getting ready for work. Assuming it was something routine, perhaps last-minute inputs for the pre-shift brief she was working on, she picked up only to find it was anything but. Elexis Richards, 26, was a restaurant manager…

And How It Can Help Us to Connect with Others — Busily oscillating from one station to the next behind a glass pane, a pharmacy tech appeared not only to be filling little transparent orange bottles, but also the shoes of a few absent colleagues. To the delight of the crowded waiting room, she would occasionally call out a short enumeration…

An Exploratory Search for Evidence, Implications, & Possible Solutions — I want to begin by saying that I was fortunate enough to have had rather unique career beginnings, as well as some top-notch early mentorship, that probably promoted professionalism more pervasively than most traditional career paths. After penetrating the ‘management barrier’ of a then rapidly-growing company through some performance miracles…