Workforce and skills planning
The five-step approach, from the state of resources to the action plan, its tools (job description, skills framework, age pyramid, career review) and the duty to negotiate in large companies.
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Workforce and skills planning: what is it?
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An approach that compares the human resources a company has with those it will need, then decides what actions will close the gap.
It is known by the French acronym GPEC. The law requires bargaining on the subject in companies of at least 300 employees and now speaks of managing jobs and career paths.
A company has 40 developers and will need as many in three years, but its business is moving from web development to mobile apps. What gap is found?
- A qualitative gap: headcount is enough, but the skills no longer match
- A quantitative gap: the company must hire, because the trade has changed in nature
- No gap, since the number of developers is the same today and in three years
- Both a quantitative and a qualitative gap, by definition of any change of activity
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A qualitative gap: headcount is enough, but the skills no longer match
The numbers are equal: no quantitative gap. But the skills held are not those required: the gap is qualitative, and is closed through training or retraining rather than headcount hiring.
The approach first lists … resources, then projects future resources under an … (departures, promotions, moves), then quantifies needs.
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The approach first lists current resources, then projects future resources under an unchanged policy (departures, promotions, moves), then quantifies needs.
"Unchanged policy" means: what will be left if the company does nothing. The comparison with needs is what brings out the gap.
Skill: what is it?
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The ability to bring together knowledge, know-how and behaviours to carry out a task successfully in a given context.
Knowing is not enough: knowing database theory is a skill only if you can also design and query a real database.