Workforce planning tools help you identify the skills you need and find the people who’ve got them.

Employer Resource Kit

This user-friendly guide helps employers develop workforce plans and implement strategies that respond to workforce issues.  It includes: 

  • information on workforce topics
  • a workforce planning guide with steps and templates for businesses to undertake workforce planning
  • a cost of recruitment tool
  • a CD containing simple, useful templates and a case study demonstrating effective workforce planning.

Download the Employer Resource Kit or use the parts you need.  Or call the Infoline if you'd like a copy posted to you.

Workforce Wizard 2.0

The Workforce Wizard is a free workforce planning tool you can download.  It gives you up-to-date workforce information by industry, occupation and region.  You can create your own reports on topics such as:

  • employment size and status
  • gender, age, qualifications and schooling profiles
  • vocational education and training information, including apprentices and trainees.

The Wizard lets you select from the full Australian Bureau of Statistics classification hierarchies, choose comparisons for your selections and save searches.

Register to download the Workforce Wizard. 

Standards Australia Workforce Planning handbook

This handbook provides an overview of a simple and proven approach to incorporating workforce planning into normal business practice.  It’s supported with current references and a step-by-step guide to implementing a workforce planning project. 

Purchase the handbook online at SAI Global.

Other tools and resources

A large collection of online tools and resources is available relating to workforce information, including industry trends, regional and sector analyses, future skills predictions and local labour market statistics.

Access workforce information.