As a student, Kerri Falkenham envisioned a career as a veterinarian. Through mentorship and dialogue with her biology professor, she re-routed her career trajectory. Opting to major in Psychology with a minor in Italian at Holy Cross, she found herself drawn to interpersonal communications and workplace psychology. While at Holy Cross she volunteered in the admissions office and interned in the human resources department.
Falkenham gained professional work experience in human resources with an agency that specializes in pharmaceutical logics recruitment. In the next leg of her professional journey, Falkenham was hired as the human resources coordinator for a tech startup, Cloud Technology Partners, and was soon promoted to a human resources associate business partner. She advanced an additional level to human resources business partner upon accepting an offer from a telecommunications company, Fuze.
During her time at Fuze, her boyfriend was graduating from medical school and awaiting residency placement. This inspired her to search for other job opportunities and stumbled across WorkHuman which maintains offices in Boston and Rhode Island. On the day of residency assignments, her boyfriend learned he would spend one year in Boston and three in Rhode Island. It seems as though the stars were aligned—the timing perfection—Falkenham landed the position at WorkHuman the same day her boyfriend proposed!
Falkenham was married in the Summer of 2022 and recently celebrated her first year anniversary at WorkHuman.
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