	Question: Do you have any other notes on how Covid-19 has affected your business or on how supply chain management students can be better prepared for a professional career during these critical times?
Employer #	Response:
Employer 1	Stay up to date with industry trends.
Employer 2	You must remain flexible. Your role will temporarily shift, to take on additional responsibilities to help. Emotional intelligence is key to keep a level head during these difficult times.
Employer 3	It’s going to be hard for students. I empathize & encourage them to reach out to 2008 folks who went thru a recession. Most are successful manager level or higher individuals & can be a great mentor support.
Employer 4	Trust your vendors, if you don’t trust them, find those that you do trust. The good ones are on top of the situation and can make you successful in keeping your company stocked with product.
Employer 5	Change is going to happen and it’s going to be in many forms or fashions. More online tools are being designed to help with “working from home”. You need to accept that things tomorrow might not be the same as today and learn how to adjust to keep moving forward.
Employer 6	Be ready for anything and apply lessons learned and skills from previous issues to similar situations that may arise.
Employer 7	None at this time but the school should coach creativity, promote eagerness with the willingness to learn more about staying charged to deliver the objective.
Employer 8	Just be mindful of the people you interact with, with interactions being more digital, recorded, and possibly more over chats than verbal it is important to always remember that your views and culture may be different than someone else’s, be mindful of how others will interpret your words. Digital meetings are almost more difficult especially with no video involved, prepare ahead of time and respect other’s time, understand that if you do not, they are likely to multi-task while on the meeting and if so then you’ve potentially already lost them as an audience.
Employer 9	The need to properly risk mitigate existed prior to the pandemic and will exist once it is behind us. understanding the risks to supply from a geographic, political and quality perspective is necessary and requires awareness to global event. you must be willing to mitigate risk, even if prices are somewhat higher.
Employer 10	Right now, there is a lot of uncertainty in a lot of industries. We have had multiple furloughs and layoffs here at my company and there is no “end” in sight at this time. It’s been a very challenging situation but being flexible and adapting to the fluidity of the situation has been key.
Employer 11	Stay patient, confident, and current on current events and continue to read and educate yourself after graduating at WMU. Good luck.
Employer 12	I think new students need to be creative to overcome challenges but also respect the severity of the challenge and how this impacting diversity in the workforce, families, age impacted groups. etc.