The prospect of running a recruitment round during lockdown might feel daunting. Xavier Roeseler outlines how you can adapt your current recruitment process while schools are closed, to ensure you can still find the right candidates for your school

You will need to plan for the possibility that staff involved in the recruitment process may be off sick. Use a shared drive for all recruitment documents and make sure everyone who needs to has access.

At the end of each day, note down where you are at in the recruitment process and what the next steps are, so that others can pick it up. As this will likely be the first time many of you carry out remote recruitment, add extra buffer time into your process to account for any delays. Also, have more than one recruitment panel member trained in safer recruitment.

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