A record 95% of American employees were forced to adapt to stay-at-home work measures since the virus began its attack early this year. Almost 47 million, since then have filed for unemployment in the US as the virus wreaked havoc during the lockdown months.
Amidst the crisis, healthcare, eCommerce, logistics, technology and telecom were certain sectors that were bursting with activity and witnessed a reverse effect. This sent them on mass hiring sprees at a time when other industries largely took on a more cautionary approach.
Companies like Walmart, Amazon, Ace Hardware, CVS Health, Lowe’s and more went on the hunt to fill in over 604,000 open positions since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business all over the world.
Hospitals hired retired doctors, nurses or medical students to fill massive staff shortage created by COVID-19. And as more and more people turned to stock up their ‘pandemic pantries’ rather than popping into their neighborhood mom and pop stores, the likes of Walmart, Amazon and Albertson’s heavily recruited to meet the rising demand of home deliveries at their fulfilment centers.
But with the effects of quarantine kicking in, companies are having to rethink their hiring practices by putting an immediate stop to face-to-face interviews and related talent acquisition systems.
Therefore, the question is – ‘how will companies find their ideal candidate when traditional recruitment is out of the question?’
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