[PDF] Resource and Talent Planning Assignment Sample

Resource and Talent
Planning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
PART 1- LABOUR MARKET AND SKILLS ANALYSIS...........................................................3
Overview of company and different types of labour requirements........................................3
Current labour market trends and factors which places influence over it..............................4
Different types of legislation..................................................................................................4
Current and anticipated skills requirements for company......................................................5
Comparison with similar sized organisations.........................................................................6
Conclusion and recommendations..........................................................................................7
PART 2- RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION ............................................................................8
Recruitment and selection process flowchart.........................................................................8
Job analysis.............................................................................................................................8
Job description of two different jobs......................................................................................9
Person specification for two jobs.........................................................................................10
Recruitment and selection methods......................................................................................11
Recommendations for improvement of processes................................................................12
PART 3- HUMAN RESOURCE LIFE CYCLE...........................................................................12
HR life cycle.........................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Resource and talent planning refers to the important function of every organisation that
includes coordination between Human resource department and other department in order to
identify requirement of resources within the company. It also contributes in maintaining talent in
company for future recruitments (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). The current project is based on
Dell, a large scale computer technology organisation which produces, repairs, sell and support
computer associated product and services. DELL is a U.S based company incorporated in the
year 1984 and offers its products and services world wide. This report is divided into three
different sections. Part 1, will describe about current labour market trends and legal requirement
that influences workforce planning. It also elaborate about current and anticipated skills
requirements. In Part 2, description will be given about different documentation and processes
that leads to effective recruitment and selection. In the last part, human resource life-cycle will
going to be explained as per HR strategy.
PART 1- LABOUR MARKET AND SKILLS ANALYSIS
Overview of company and different types of labour requirements
Dell is US based multinational computer technology company that offers high quality of
computer associated products and services worldwide. It is one among the largest technological
enterprise which has workforce of around 145000 that manages its business within US as well as
across the nation. This company is famous for its continuous based innovations in electronic
commerce and supply chain management. Some major offerings of this company are servers,
Television, Smartphones, Personal computers and Peripherals.
Workforce planning is termed as most essential role of human resource department of
every sector organisation. In context to DELL, it has been analysed that this company has
various types of labour requirements such as employees, independent contractors and others
(Briscoe, Tarique and Schuler, 2012). All three of them are described as below:
Employees: HR manager of DELL requires employees for executing their operational
activities within the company. Some of common department in Dell are software development,
research and development, administrative department, human resource management etc. All of
these department requires adequate number of workforce for accomplishing organisational goals.
These employees are hired on the basis of certain parameters like full time, part time, temporary,