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The importance of quantitative and qualitative skills balance in companies: a lever for strategic workforce planning

3 min read
July 15, 2024
Morgan Donnette
Lucas Fauchille
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Morgan Donnette & Lucas Fauchille

The importance of quantitative and qualitative skills balance in companies

Introduction

The balance between available skills and offered positions is a central challenge for human resources management in any organization. This balance, both quantitative and qualitative, not only optimizes productivity but also ensures better employee satisfaction and greater agility in the face of market changes.

What is quantitative and qualitative balance?

Quantitative and qualitative balance relies on a company's ability to align employee skills with job requirements, both in terms of quantity and quality. This means that at any given time, a company must ensure it has the exact number of employees (quantitative balance) with the required skill level (qualitative balance) to meet the demands of its activities.

This balance is all the more crucial in a context of rapid transformation of jobs and skills, where the mismatch between company needs and employee skills can lead to costly imbalances, such as salary overruns, loss of competitiveness, or high employee turnover.

Strategic workforce planning: strategic tools to achieve this balance

Strategic workforce planning tools are essential devices for anticipating a company's skills needs. By implementing such an approach, an organization can identify gaps between the current skills of its employees and those that will be necessary in the future, and plan accordingly for training, internal mobility, or recruitment actions.

This not only addresses the immediate challenges of the organization but also prepares the company for future changes in the labor market by strengthening its flexibility and adaptability.

Creates.community: an ally to strengthen internal mobility and detect hidden talents

In this quest for quantitative and qualitative balance, Creates.community positions itself as an indispensable tool for HR managers. Our platform, thanks to its advanced AI and interactive chatbot, helps maintain a precise and up-to-date mapping of all employees' skills.

By automatically analyzing profiles and regularly questioning employees about their specific skills, Creates.community ensures that your HRIS is always up to date. This opens up new possibilities for internal mobility by allowing the detection of talents that might have gone unnoticed.

Additionally, access to precise statistics on declining or at-risk skills allows managers to anticipate training or recruitment needs, facilitating proactive and responsible human resources management. Creates.community thus becomes a real asset for implementing and drafting your strategic workforce planning, offering complete and dynamic visibility of the skills available in your organization. Ultimately, our solution contributes to establishing a sustainable balance between available skills and company needs, thus strengthening the overall performance and resilience of your organization.

Adopt Creates.community to strengthen your skills management and ensure a sustainable balance between company needs and your employees' skills.