Recruitment Resource Plan
It is wise to have Workforce Plans separate from Recruitment Plans. It is wiser still to make sure that the recruitment plans and execution of it informs Workforce Plans constantly. It is also a matter of best practice that the parameters used to find people particularly the time to hire inform the structure and frequency of Workforce Planning.
· Recruitment plans needs to time to hire the resources needed and therefore have to be developed further out.
· Recruitment plans are structure to take account of market conditions for Talent and paint a picture of what is achievable.
· Recruitment plans reflect more accurately what the business can deliver.
· Recruitment plans are a potential feeder tool to Recruitment and Sourcing strategy.
· Recruitment plans are based on skill base rather than activity base and so can better inform training needs in the business.
· Recruitment plans can help shape workforce plans workforce plans cannot shape the market conditions.
· Recruitment plans should be used to inform the business well in advance of the resource needed for delivery of the plan in a timely manner.
Mixing Recruitment Tools for an Integrated approach to Recruitment
Knowing your recruitment plan and knowing you recruitment capacity give you a distinct advantage within the business. It finally allows the recruitment department to have a discussion about how to manage peaks and troughs. The business needs to determine through proiritisation what should happen. The options include:-
- Increase Recruitment Capacity - Using part time, season al or full time recruiters.
- Outsource Recruitment Capacity - Outsource part of the recruitment process or all of the low priority recruitment work.
- Augment Recruitment - Use recruitment vendors to provide assitance through insourcing recruiters or managing vendors.
- Decrease the internal burden of recruitment - Change the work recruitment are doing inhouse.
It is important that the recruitment representitives stay strong at this point. A strong discussion about recruitment as a business process will be quite helpful. Data backed arguments will put you in the position that should you have to continue as is the business knows and appreciates what you are doing.

