Resource and Talent Planning in British Gas

UNIT 19 RESOURCE
AND TALENT
PLANNING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
LO-1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1-Explaining the current labour market trends that influence talent management and
workforce planning.....................................................................................................................3
P2-Different types of legal requirements an organisation must take into account when
workforce planning.....................................................................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P3 Current labour market trends and legal requirements determining anticipated skills
requirements ...............................................................................................................................5
LO-3.................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Job Description and person specification..............................................................................7
P5-Different recruitment and selection methods for effective talent resourcing and planning.. 9
LO-4...............................................................................................................................................11
P6 Stages of HR life cycle........................................................................................................11
P7 Evaluation of stages in HR life cycle at British Gas ...........................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Resource and talent planning means coordination between the recruitment team and the
business tare related to the networking and selection of proper hiring channel. British gas deals
in supplying power and electricity in UK. It is the multinational company that have business in
many countries. They have more than 9000 employees working with them. The purpose of
company is to use energy efficiently and supporting households to build up the skills for bright
future. Also, provides services that are related to home wiring and electrical white goods. This
project will analyse what are the current labour trends that are used by company while
appointing new workforce. Further report will evaluate market trends and legal requirement used
to finding out the required skills. In addition to this information related to current and anticipated
skills using appropriate documents for specific job description will be discussed. Along with this
different recruitment and selection methods for planning of new employees will be outlined.
Lastly importance of managing the human resource life cycle using HR strategy will also be
highlighted.
MAIN BODY
LO-1
P1-Explaining the current labour market trends that influence talent management and workforce
planning.
Workforce planning is the process of assessing company’s current and future labour
needs. Various markets trends that influence the talent planning are:
Demographics: Demographics are the statistical information related to the human
population that is age and income. These are factors that are used to define the characteristics of

a person or a population. Some commonly used demographic factors include variables such as
race, age, income, marital status, and educational achievement, among others. These practices
are used by organizations to respond to increasing labour markets. Diversity are related to the
need of employees as well as objective of services. Company should adapt new technologies
that are related to the need and desire of not only employees but also for country's citizen. These
also includes economically beneficial partnerships, new markets, social and environmental
responsibility that are related to the current markets trends.
Changing skill requirements: It is necessary to change or update the skills on time to tie
up with updated technology adapted by organization. This skill is to be gained through training
and development of the employees. It assists company to reduce cost and time of production.
This will also lead talent to reduce stress and greater sense of control. Change in skill
management is good for the leaders as their will be change in the organization sills that will deal
in growth of British Gas. The talent must have different types of skill so that they can cop up
with the new changes in the organization. By changing the performance if the data to spot the
talent gaps for long term labour.
Training: British Gas needed to increase its workforce to meet customer demand. They
provide training to their employees (King., 2021). That ensures that they are kept up-to-date
with new information and technologies to enable them to provide the best service possible.
Graduate strategy: If the employee has full knowledge about current trends then they
can easily achieve a clear action plan that business needs. That are also related to talent planning,
developing and retaining graduates. The percentage of the UK population that are working are
76.1% on the other hand the unemployed rate is 3.8%
Flexible working: In today's era or trend the employees need flexibility towards work. It
is the necessity for every person and management to be flexible towards the work. Flexibility
doesn't mean standard they are related to the employment.
P2-Different types of legal requirements an organisation must take into account when workforce
planning.
Workforce planning is the process of assessing company’s current and future labour needs.
Legal requirement that British gas use at time of appointing new workforce are: