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April 7, 2004  

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IN THIS ISSUE
Newsletter Sponsors
A Note from the Editor
Breaking News
Today's Recruiting News Headlines
Featured Recruiting Jobs
Weekly Article: From Workforce Planning to Workforce Logistics
 Special Trials and Discounts
Recruiting Polls and Trends
 Layoffs and Downsizing Report
Recruiting Essential Bookmarks
Upcoming Conferences
Site Of The Week: NACElink
Final Note - On The Lighter Side

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Newsletter Sponsors

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Executive Job Market Intelligence 2004 brings you the latest industry information on executive marketplace trends and compensation. This comprehensive report, based on ExecuNet's 12th annual survey of executives and recruiters, details the attitudes, perceptions and practices of executives and the search community. Download it now.

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A Note From The Editor

Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for Second Quarter Reveals ...
U.S. employers expect the seasonally adjusted hiring pace from April to June to be stronger than it has been since the first quarter of 2001, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, conducted quarterly by Manpower Inc.

Complete Story >>

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Breaking News

Newspapers' help-wanted advertising seen rising

U.S. newspaper publishers are due to report quarterly results next week, with several of them expected to show the benefits a rise in help-wanted advertising.

Complete article >>

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Today's Recruiting News Headlines
View HR/employment news headlines or our Recruiting Newswire.

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Featured Recruiting Jobs

This section highlights several recruiting related positions recently posted on Recruiting Jobs. To view all jobs or to register for a career agent click here.

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Weekly Article
 From Workforce Planning to Workforce Logistics
 By Yves Lermusiaux

Workforce planning is a popular topic of discussion, especially when an improving economy drives changes in corporate staffing needs. Although workforce planning is simple in concept, rapidly changing market conditions and the complexities inherent in large and global organizations may make it unrealistic to accomplish.

In workforce planning, an organization conducts a systematic assessment of the existing workforce, its size and composition, and how it compares to the workforce needed by the company in the future. Workforce planning then goes on to determine what actions must be taken to respond to those future needs. Workforce planning must take into account external (e.g. availability of skills in the local labor pool) as well as internal factors (e.g. age of the workforce). In theory, these factors then determine whether future skill needs will be met by recruiting, by internal redeployment, or by outsourcing the work.

Workforce Realities
Yet, can we really plan our workforce needs? Staffing directors are often cynical about the prospects of workforce planning. A skeptical staffing director told me: “I don’t put a lot of value on workforce planning. As soon as you plan, conditions change. Last year was the best example of that….”

In practice, workforce planning is often left far behind by fast moving developments in business plans. Large companies are affected by a range of unanticipated circumstances including global political shifts, natural disasters, or major changes in lines of business, mergers and acquisitions. Unforeseen events may dictate a fast ramp-up or scale-down. The shift to a more fluid workforce—for instance, project-based workgroups that form up and disband at a moment’s notice—further frustrates attempts at workforce planning. Throughout, the new workforce realities require a fast response from staffing.

Workforce planning should not be abandoned entirely. Its role is to provide a strategic overview of a company’s anticipated needs. Some organizations are approaching workforce planning in ways that take inspiration from scenario planning. Scenario planning involves the disciplined introduction of unorthodox assumptions into strategic thinking. Scenario planning contemplates more freewheeling what-if considerations in a wider range of internal and external factors.

Workforce Logistics
Today, responsiveness and planning that is well suited to a dynamic business environment can be derived from proficiency in workforce logistics. Workforce logistics is an aspect of human capital management that deals with the procurement, deployment and redeployment of an organization’s current and future workforce, in relation to current skills possessed by the workforce and the future demand for skills. Workforce logistics focuses on a single, integrated view of the demand for skills in an organization in a timely fashion. A single technology platform is required to provide the ability to match demand flexibly and continuously to all sources of talent, from internal pools of talent to traditional sources of external talent: permanent, hourly, and contingent hires.

To excel at workforce logistics, talent supply must be able to be identified to meet demand, at all job levels – hourly, professional, and managerial. A consistent and scalable process for meeting enterprise-wide demand for talent, based on a database for defining the requisite skills for each position in the company, is key. The suppliers of talent—internal and external candidates—are then measurable according to those requirements. Profiling the current workforce in an internal skill database in advance of any identification of a hiring need further enables fast internal redeployment as needed.

Single Platform
The ability to manage all hire types on one platform is the next major milestone in the evolution of human capital management systems. A single platform integrating all hiring done by the enterprise provides unprecedented levels of service and flexibility to hiring managers, who are the true point of demand for talent. Being able to hire a professional salaried, temp, contractor, student/new grad, and/or hourly worker, all from one system delivers considerable value to hiring managers striving to meet corporate goals. For executives of global enterprises, one system provides complete and consistent data, which supports better decision making for realistic and immediate workforce planning. Given the vagaries of the business climate and the powerful advances in technology, workforce logistics automation becomes the driver for timely responses to changes in workforce planning. Like business today, staffing will gain its superiority not by the best planning or crystal ball to predict the future, but by its nimbleness and ability to react and adapt quickly.

About the Author

Yves Lermusiaux is president and founder of iLogos Research, which benchmarks best practices and analyzes the economics of talent flow. Mr. Lermusiaux is well known as a public speaker and industry analyst, and was named to the list of the “100 Most Influential People in the Recruiting Industry.” He is often quoted in leading business media worldwide including Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week, and Time Magazine. As the head of iLogos, Mr. Lermusiaux consults with major corporations throughout the world on strategic staffing, human capital management and metrics.

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Recruiting Polls and Trends

Trend Watch is sponsored and provided by iLogos, a division of Recruitsoft. Click here for a complete archive.

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Layoffs and Downsizing Report

Recruiters Network has added a layoff and downsizing report section to its newsletter. This section can be a great leads source for candidates. More information on how to use this section here.

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Recruiting Essential Bookmarks

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Upcoming Seminars & Conferences

Zero Based Hiring - Lou Adler
Performance-based, Interviewing, Assessment and Recruiting Techniques

Click here for schedules for upcoming conferences and seminars.

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Site Of The Week

NACElink

NACElink is a national, web-based system for recruiting new college graduates for all types of employment.  It is a service provided by the nonprofit professional association NACE.  Employers post targeted entry level jobs to some or all of the participating schools through NACElink.com.  Students do not search for jobs through NACElink.com but are provided a link for the jobs targeted to their specific college or university through their campus career center.

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Final Note - On The Lighter Side

This is one of the strangest things I have ever encountered.

a. While sitting, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
b. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
c. What direction is your foot going in?

Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it.

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