The Pandemic’s Impact on Jobs and the Restaurant Industry

In this episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about finding jobs during the pandemic and the impact COVID-19 has had on the restaurant industry in New York.

Andrea Constantine, CAIA is the Talent Network Insights Manager at eightfold.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered Talent Intelligence Platform which aims to transform how companies hire, engage and retain their human resources talent. As COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt our lives and impact our economy, Andrea Constantine talks about how eightfold.ai has developed an on-line Talent Exchange platform that, using algorithms, matches people who are looking for work to the rights jobs for them.

Melissa Fleischut is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Restaurant Association of New York State. Over the past 5 months, while the Coronavirus Pandemic wreaked havoc with our entire economy, restaurants were one of the sectors of the economy to suffer the most because of social distancing requirements and other safety precautions put in place by government authorities. Melissa Fleischut talks about how the restaurant industry has coped with these measures, and now with restaurants slowly reopening for business, what members of her organization hope for the future of their industry here in New York State.

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