Workforce Planning

The NSW Strategic Workforce Planning Framework provides an overall strategy for meeting workforce needs now and into the future. An action plan has been developed to guide implementation of the framework.

The Action Plan sets out the projects and functions related to workforce planning under five key strategies:

1. Collect internal labour market data, analyse labour market trends and projections
2. Provide high level policy advice to Government on labour supply, demand and retention as they relate to industrial relations, human resource management, EEO and diversity issues
3. Assist agencies to implement industrial relations, human resource and diversity strategies and to integrate strategic, corporate and workforce planning
4. Assist the sector to build workforce capability, including entry level and graduate recruitment and retention, leadership development and core public sector skill development and redeployment
5. Promote the sector as a good place to work, develop and contribute to the community

Workforce Planning - A Guide: This guide was published in 2003 to assist agencies to plan and manage their workforce. It provides a step by step process for workforce planning from initial scoping to monitoring and evaluation. It also contains case study examples from a diverse range of agencies.

A strong focus is to provide solid evidence to underpin workforce planning.  The Workforce Profile is an increasingly useful tool for tracking changes to workforce characteristics and identifying trends. We are using the profile to undertake workforce projections for the sector over the next 20 years.