With ongoing workplace changes and labor shortages, companies need additional strategies around talent recruitment and worker management, which should incorporate the knowledge of talent professionals, according to a Dec. 13 report from The Conference Board.

Strategic workforce planning should identify the right mix of talent required to reach future goals — and those who recruit and hire new workers should be actively involved, the report said.

“Companies can no longer afford to minimize the importance of strategic workforce planning and should ensure the talent acquisition function is closely integrated,” Robin Erickson, vice president of human capital at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

“In a tight labor market, businesses must bring every asset to bear to ensure they have the right people in the right roles at the right times,” he said.

During four working group sessions, The Conference Board and Human Capital Center collaborated with knowledge partners — Cielo, Eightfold.ai, Talent Tech Labs and Visier — to develop insights about workforce planning and talent acquisition. They identified five key points:

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