What is this resource?
This guide gives advice on how to profile your workforce and see what skills and experience are available to you. The guide tells you why you should be profiling and the checklist sets out what areas you should be profiling and what specific information you should be looking out for.
What is in this resource?
The resource comprises a brief guide to workforce profiling – a useful overview for those who are new to the subject – and a checklist detailing some ways of interpreting the information you gather in profiling your workforce.
Who is this useful for?
This guide is useful for anyone who is asked, often by trust boards, to produce workforce profiles. It is also useful for HR and Workforce leads.
How will this help me and my organisation?
Profiling will show you the strengths and weaknesses within your workforce. The guide focuses on workforce planning rather than HR performance management, though there is some crossover between the two. The checklist works with the guide and will give you fuller details.
The Understanding Turnover ‘how to’ guide will help you more specifically with workforce supply planning.
How do I use this resource?
The ‘how to’ guide sets out some aspects of the workforce to look at when you undertake profiling:
Age distribution
Length of service distribution
Gender
Full and part time working
Ethnic group distribution
Travel-to-work patterns
The guide also tells you what you might need to take into account when interpreting the results of your profiling.
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Read the workforce profiling guide and checklist in conjunction with following the Six Steps e-learning guide which is an online learning tool developed from the Workforce Planning Step Guide.
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Workforce Profiling 'How To' Guide
