Planning skills/talents

Maintenance may be handled either by employees hired especially for that job or by an outside contractor. The latter is most economical when workers in most trades are needed only occasionally. The company does not need to hire these workers full time, but still has their talents available when they are needed. Even in a large plant where a number of employees skilled in each maintenance trade are needed full time, contract maintenance may be used as a supplement at times of turnarounds (a planned time when large continuous plants are shut down to do preventive maintenance, repairs, and inspections) or especially heavy demands. For instance, during the turnaround of a 140,000 bbl/day (22,000 m3/day) Tidewater Oil Company refinery, the number of maintenance personnel rose from a preshutdown level of 181 to 924 men.48 Fewer men could have been used, but the downtime of the refinery would have been increased. In this instance the plant contracted for all of its maintenance. 

Retirees have experience, knowledge, and skills that society needs. They constitute a giant reservoir of ability and talent. But finding the right part-time job is not always easy. It is estimated that for every two retirees who work part-time, at least one more person would like to work. With Plan B, you have some choices. For example, you can continue to use skills you already possess or learn to do something fresh and different. Here are some ideas to consider. 

Mammon and Dol are in turn interrupted and whisked into another room when Kastrill and Dame Pliant arrive. Subtle, among his many talents, is a skillful matchmaker, and Kastrill is quite prepared to leave his sister s future in the wise man s hands. Subtle and Face, not surprisingly, plan to snare the fortune, but since each wants to marry the heiress, they quarrel again. 

Corporate human resources should ensure conformity in standards across the businesses - for example, in employee evaluation processes, incentive plans, benefit plans, and training pohcies. As in other functions, aU operational tasks should be outsourced or operated as shared services at SBU level - for example, payroll, human resources information systems, a database on internal job opportunities, or the administration of benefit plans. The center should be active in developing top talent across the businesses, and it should run the goldfish pool for internal top talent and the company s program for recmiting experienced persoimel. This responsibility also includes the early identification of skills needed by the entire organization, for example, e-commerce skills to kick-start new businesses. The center must also act as a repository of expertise on internal and external best practices in talent management... 

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