Workforce Strategies is a column written by the Security Industry Association addressing best practices for hiring, onboarding and retaining security industry employees. 

For avid news-watchers like myself, the COVID-19 health issue has provided so many opportunities to learn how the world is altering these days.

When I started out in the security industry, I had the good fortune of being hired and subsequently mentored by SDM’s chief editor at the time, Susan Whitehurst.