Links to useful resources for business owners and leaders responding to COVID-19’s impact
There’s been plenty written about the impact, economic-wise and health-wise, of COVID-19.
I don’t intend to add to it, merely to point you to the useful resources I have discovered. I will update this page regularly:
- Recruiters, this is our time to step up! (Greg Savage’s excellent new blog post on how you might take effective action amongst the current uncertainty)
- Leadership actions during crisis – 37 years of experience in a nutshell (Chris Savage’s advice, drawing on all of his experience as PR specialist and business leader dealing with many types of crisis
- Your business, your employees and the Covid-19 environment: FAQs by Australian Business Lawyers and Advisers
Coronavirus HR Comms & Resources Guide (crowd sourced doc thanks to Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood) - A Guide to Managing Remote Teams (crowd sourced doc thanks to Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood)
- Strong financial controls will be the key to recruiters surviving the coronavirus outbreak (useful article from UK’s Recruiter Magazine)
- Some data indicating positive news in various spots around the world (a LinkedIn post from Barry Fellowes a Business Director at Hays in the UK, reposted by Greg Savage)
- Possible Recruiting Impacts From the Coronavirus Scare (Dr John Sullivan’s advice, posted on ERE.net
- How do you deal with contractual obligations in this Covid-19 environment? by Louise Blair, Associate, Australian Business Lawyers and Advisers
- Readers sent 1000 coronavirus questions. An expert replied, explaining how to see mates, travel, work from Australian news website The New Daily
- Coronavirus: How social distancing and self-isolating differs from Australian news website The New Daily
- Recruiters may need to suspend sending staff to clients unless they are confident about their hygiene regime. (from UK industry news site Recruiter.co.uk )
- (US) Coronavirus-specific Job Postings (by location, job title and hiring organisation)
- Get dressed and set goals: some routines not to break if coronavirus means you have to work from home (by Paula Brough, Professor and Director, Social & Organisational Psychology Research Unit, Griffith University, published on The Conversation)
- Ask a recruiter: Recruiting during the COVID-19 outbreak by Kate Neilson (HRMonline, the AHRI news site)
- Strategy Column: Hiring in a Time of Crisis by Mary Faulkner, published on ERE.net
- The Big Lockdown Resource List a round-up of resources and sites that might help you and your family get through weeks – or even months – of staying in your home and garden. Circulated via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood
- Leadership in a Crisis: Responding to Coronavirus Outbreak and Future Challenges from McKinsey & Company. Circulated via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood.
- Emergency Emails a resource bank of emails that companies are sending out to customers and employees concerning the COVID-19 Pandemic (among other emergencies). Circulated via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood.
- What recruitment owners are doing right now! Blog post by Greg Savage, 24 March 2020, based on the many conversations he has had with agency owners in the past seven days
- The Top 10 Job Search Changes That You Need to Prepare For Dr John Sullivan lists the most likely and important things job seekers need to be prepared for as they apply for jobs in the employment marketplaces impacted by COVID-19, 24 March 2020
- What to do if you’ve lost your job due to coronavirus What help is available if you have lost your job? What can you do about big living expenses? How are the banks pitching in? Advice for Australian from from The Age website, 24 March 2020
- Fee Free Contract Recruitment Services offered by rec2rec Spencer Lane, who will place temp recruiters for no charge (24 March 2020)
- Two free ‘Business Action Plan’ worksheets, drawn by Guy Downes, based on Chris Savage’s blog of last week and designed to help you navigate your business through these rough times (24 March 2020).
- How to work from home when your kids are home, too from the Atlassian blog, 3 April 202
- The best virtual team building activities, according to real remote workers from the Atlassian blog, 3 April 2020
- Six things to remember when laying off your staff by Ian Whitworth, published on SmartCompany, 3 April 2020
- 30 tactics for recruiters to survive and thrive in the time of Covid-19 by Greg Savage, another fantastic blog full of ideas for agency recruiters, 3 April 2020
- Job Keeper and its application for Staffing Firms, RCSA Advisory notice 3 April 2020
- Four economists explain what the post-coronavirus economy might look like from The New Daily, 6 April 2020
- How the Coronavirus will change work in general (and recruiting specifically) one of the best blogs I have read on this topic (with excellent historical context), thanks to Jim Stroud, one of the most highly regarded recruitment experts in the US, reposted on the ATC blog, 1 April 2020
- How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Accelerating The Future Of Work Future of Work expert, Heather E McGowan’s Forbes column from 23 March two weeks ago is another excellent contribution to this topic, 6 April, via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood
- The Big Reset: Making Sense Of The Coronavirus Crisis Josh Bersin writes about Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology. This post, from 27 March, on this blog, found via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood, is an excellent macro overview of where we are and what’s ahead,
- Grief is crippling recruiter crisis response to Covid-19 another must-read blog from Greg Savage, The Savage Truth Blog, 9 April 2020
- Jobs Finder Queensland ) The RCSA’s partnership with the Queensland Government to connect professional recruitment and staffing agencies with Queenslanders looking for work, 16 April) .
- Critical COVID-19 Amendments to Fair Work Act 2009 The Australian Government has introduced legislation to temporarily amend the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) to assist employers and employees to work through the economic impact of COVID-19, provided via the RCSA, 16 April.
- COVID-19 JobKeeper Wage Subsidy Fact Sheet provided via the RCSA, 16 April.
- COVID19 JobKeeper Payment & FW Act 2009 Amendments FAQ provided via the RCSA, 16 April.
- COVID-19 JobKeeper Payment Employer Guide (ACCI) Edition 4 , provided via the RCSA, 16 April.
- 7 Big social trends that coronavirus is accelerating by collaboration expert, Phil Preston, 18 April
- The Coronavirus Is Creating An Inflection Point In The Future Of Work, another excellent Heather E McGowan Forbes column, from 16 April, via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood
- How to best support remote employees by Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team. This is an article a level or two above the standard dare offered on this topic, sourced via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood, 16 April
- The Ultimate Guide to Finding a New Job Fast & Efficiently: Finding opportunity during COVID-19 by Adrian Kolff, a comprehensive and excellent article sourced via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood, 23 April
- Victorian labour hire licence applications now extended until 30 June 2020, press release from the Labour Hire Authority of Victoria, 22 April
- COVID-19 JobKeeper Payment Employer Guide (ACCI) Edition 5 (AU) An employer guide to the new Federal Government JobKeeper. Edition 5 current as at 20 April 2020 (via RCSA, 24 April)
- JobKeeper Direction – Enabling Stand Down (JobKeeper Direction – Enabling Stand Down template letter (via RCSA, 24 April)
- Re-engagement Letter – JobKeeper (Casual Employee) Re-engagement Letter – JobKeeper (Casual Employee) template letter (via RCSA, 24 April)
- JobKeeper Request – Taking Paid Annual Leave JobKeeper Request – Taking Paid Annual Leave template letter (via RCSA, 24 April)
- JobKeeper Request – Days of Work JobKeeper Direction – Location of Work template letter (via RCSA, 24 April)
- QLD Government – WHS COVID-19 Guide (AU)WHS during COVID-19: Guide to keeping your workplace safe, clean and healthy (via RCSA, 1 May)
- COVID-19 Wage Subsidy for On-Hire Employees (NZ) Wage subsidy and its application for NZ on-hire employees. Updated 24 April 2020, (via RCSA 1 May)
- COVID-19 JobKeeper Payment Employer Guide (ACCI) Edition 6 Edition 6 current as at 6 May 2020
- Getting Australia and New Zealand safely back to work in the new normal: A global resource to assist local companies and workers to return to work quickly and safely published by the RCSA in conjunction with Adecco, Randstad and Manpower (20 May)
- 10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Post-COVID-19 World thoughtful outline of the physical logistics of life back in the office, on the Gensler blog, via Hung Lee’s Recruiting Brainfood (25 May)
Thanks for sharing all this information. Well done Ross!
Love your work and thanks for the reading material, which I will put to good use. I’m already a Quincy convert so no sale there. Hope the surgery turned out to be a very lovely sleep and a speedy recovery.
Thanks for your support in these confronting times. Stay well.