While hundreds of thousands of jobs are being lost across Australia, some are being created as the economy re-purposes due to the coronavirus. As a resume writer this is good news because it means some people targeting supply chains, will find work. This story is from the ABC. The link is at the bottom of the story.
“Three weeks ago Samantha Campbell was extremely busy at work.
The operations manager for a liquor supply logistics company was planning for major events in Melbourne — the Grand Prix, AFL, music festivals — and was looking at adding more staff. Then two weeks ago, major events started being cancelled.
One by one she let go of staff, and then last Monday she was told she wasn’t needed anymore either.
“It’s been very, very hard. Not sleeping, worrying about your staff, staff constantly calling to see what’s going on,” Ms Campbell said.
When work started drying up for her staff, she rang an old contact to see if he knew where they might be able to pick up some shifts.
He suggested logistics company Linfox. When she was stood down, she called them too.
“On Monday, I reached out, I got a call the next day, interviewed straight away and Thursday started the new role,” she said.
She’s working at a new supermarket distribution centre that’s been set up to deal with the demand from panic buying over the past month.
“It’s just been amazing. From such a negative to such a positive, I feel fantastic today,” she said.
Telstra and Optus are quickly on-shoring their call centres because of lockdowns in India and the Philippines, creating 1,500 jobs.
State and federal governments are looking to employ more than 6,000 people to help process extra welfare applications and payments.
BHP is looking to hire 1,500 people at its mining operations, while some manufacturers, who’ve struggled for survival against cheap imports for years, are stepping up.
Med-Con, near Shepparton in northern Victoria, will hire dozens of new staff to make surgical face masks, sanitiser, goggles and gowns.
And Baxter Healthcare, a medical goods manufacturer, has received orders for 200 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) machines in the past two weeks — that is how much they would normally sell in five years. It’s looking at employing Qantas engineers who’ve been laid off to help install and maintain the machines, which are being rolled out to hospitals across the country.
More than 5,000 people have been hired in the past three weeks to help shops cope with panic buying.”
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