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(a) Choose a company from the technology industry and describe the profile of the company. The profile of your company should include some of the following points that will be relevant to consider in terms of workforce planning.

• Nature of business
• Geographical presence
• overall business strategy
• Major competitors
• Annual revenue/turnover and employee headcount
• Product life cycle/Industry life cycle(b) Evaluate THREE (3) external factors that would have impacted the selected company in terms of workforce planning. Support your evaluation with rationale.(c) Develop the workforce planning process with reference to the framework that you have learned that the company should adopt. You should develop the process base on the analysis and evaluation in (a) & (b).

  (d) Recommend TWO (2) forecasting tools for the demand or supply of internal candidates that can be applied as part of the workforce planning process. Support your recommendations with details such as graphical presentations, diagrams, or tables and with reference to the selected company.

  (e) From the various attraction and retention strategies that are cited in the article, illustrate TWO (2) strategies that the selected company has used or recommend to use in order to resolve the talent crunch. Support your answers with the analysis done in (b), (c) & (d).