FEAA UVT IHRM School program will comprise lectures, and workshops touching on the special topic of Human Resource Professionals' Battle Against the Pandemic. The pandemic has been a collective force that has forced a reassessment of working practices.

More than ever, innovation and proactivity skills are vital in HR. When the crisis hit HR had to build its own solutions. There was no guidebook, instead, everyone had to think on their feet and quickly. For the industry, this meant holding up a mirror, looking inwards, and questioning the rules and manual upon which it has been built.

The speed of change and uncertainty call for the type of skill and application only HR professionals can offer. HR not only can navigate businesses through to the calmer waters we can see ahead but also assumes a new role that will continue far beyond the pandemic and determine whether the organisation survives until its next crisis.

A pandemic brings extra baggage and an unrelenting weight on people's everyday lives that would otherwise not exist. HR has been instrumental in catalyzing and expanding new approaches to the support of work-life, particularly as businesses continue to realize that a flexible approach to working is business-critical and will need to be embedded in the long term.