What workforce planning means
Workforce planning is the work of matching the people you have to the work you will have. It asks what roles exist today, what they will need to become, and who is in a position to do them.
Workforce Planning
Plan today for the workforce you will need tomorrow
Plan today for the workforce you will need tomorrow. We help organisations understand their current workforce, anticipate future talent requirements and develop practical strategies for closing workforce gaps.
Overview
Workforce Planning Overview
Why it matters
Hiring decisions made one vacancy at a time rarely add up to the workforce an organisation actually needs. Planning turns a series of reactions into a position you have chosen.
How it connects with business strategy
A strategy that nobody is staffed to deliver is a document. Workforce planning is where an organisational ambition is translated into the roles, skills and numbers it implies.
InsightIam's workforce-planning process
We start from the work itself — roles, the skills they require and the standard of performance expected — then look at the people, and only then at the gap between them.
Workforce planning when information is limited
Most organisations do not have complete workforce data, and waiting for it is its own decision. We work with what exists, make the assumptions explicit, and improve the picture as evidence accumulates.
Role of assessments and career development
Plans describe the workforce in aggregate; assessments and career development are how individual people move within it. Evidence about interests, motivation and capability is what makes a gap closeable from the inside.
Planning starts with the work itself. Role & Skills Intelligence is where roles, skills and proficiency standards are defined.
Education to workforce
We provide a career guidance solution to help young people view where their potential lies.
Education to workforce
Education-to-Workforce Planning
Student career assessments
Assessment early in a course of study gives a student evidence about their interests, motivations and strengths while there is still time to act on it.
Individual student profiles
Each student's results become a profile they own: a readable account of what they are drawn to and where their strengths sit, rather than a score to be filed.
Employability development
Knowing your strengths is the start; employability is what you do with them. Development activity turns self-knowledge into the specific readiness an employer recognises.
Graduate readiness
Readiness is a question about a person and a destination at once. It asks how prepared this graduate is for the kind of work they are actually heading towards.
Graduate outcome tracking
Where graduates go is the only honest test of whether a programme prepared them. Tracking outcomes over time turns that from an anecdote into something an institution can act on.
Employer skills research
What employers say they need is not always what their roles require. Research into the skills behind real jobs gives an institution a firmer basis than a job advert.
Programme-to-work alignment
Alignment compares what a programme teaches with what the work its graduates enter actually demands, and makes the distance between the two visible.
Internship and graduate pipelines
A pipeline is a relationship, not a list. It works when an institution can describe its students' capabilities in terms an employer already uses.
Institutional and employer partnerships
Institutions and employers are describing the same people at different moments. Partnership is what lets the description carry across the join.
Pilots start small and deliberately: one cohort, one programme, and a clear question the results have to answer. Discuss an Institutional Pilot.
Careers
Careers that did not exist ten years ago
We are dealing with a fast-paced, rapidly changing world; a world in which many careers that exist today were not available ten years ago — from Data Scientist and AI Engineer to Sustainability Manager and Emotional Intelligence expert. Discover what motivates you, what success looks like, and how to tackle the essential skill of career planning.
Career For Me: Student
Become an expert on yourself
Career For Me helps career starters become experts on themselves, explore the job market, find their most suited job and the right training for it.
Empowering everyone to have a successful and fulfilling career.
How do you prepare students for a continuously changing labour market? How can you help a young person’s talent to be discovered and enhanced? How can you ensure that everyone gets the same chance? Assessing the skills, interests and motivations of students when they join college uncovers a learning track that ensures they are ready for a successful launch of their professional career.
How, where and even why we work is changing dramatically. Emerging trends such as robotics and AI, economic fluctuations, migration and climate change demand a fresh look at what it means to have a successful and fulfilling career. We not only need to craft a fulfilling and successful career, but also to continuously develop ourselves, learn new skills and explore new opportunities.
What does success really mean to me? What motivates me, and why?
Through a journey of comprehensive exploration, Career For Me guides individuals to ask themselves the necessary questions they are not used to examining in daily life. With the answers you discover, and the additional activities we offer, the programme leads you to take immediate action toward achieving your goals and building a successful and fulfilling career.
Career For Me is
- An engaging online career and learning planning programme.
- Based on self-awareness and auto-coaching.
- Suitable for individuals from age 16.
- Designed to help with choosing the right career path, progressing in a current role, entrepreneurship and switching careers.
- Organised into two components — Student and Professional.
What students achieve
- 1Discover their professional interests, key motivations, and strengths.
- 2Understand the labour market and explore types of jobs and industries.
- 3Validate their most suited profession and find the right training through additional activities.
How it works
How does Career For Me work?
- Step 1
Watch the introductory videos
Get an initial understanding of skills and abilities, and why they matter in career planning.
- Step 2
Take the questionnaire
Take the online questionnaire to discover your unique traits.
Take an assessment - Step 3
Get results instantly
Start exploring career paths with the help of your results. Take the right actions towards your career goal by completing additional activities.
Researching where your results could take you? Explore nearly 1,000 occupations.
Discuss your workforce priorities
Tell us what you are planning for and we will tell you what evidence would help.