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What Is a Manpower Plan?

Understand manpower planning in Recruitera — plan headcount against budget, and see current, budgeted, need-to-hire, and target-achieved at a glance.

A manpower plan (headcount plan) is the pre-recruitment step: how many people you have, how many you need, and when. Recruitera builds it into your hiring cycle so planning and recruiting live in one place. Available to members with manpower access.

The three areas

Open Manpower Planning from the main navigation. It has:

  • Overview — your company's annual headcount and project portfolio, side by side.

  • Headcount Plan — a year-based workspace: one official plan per year.

  • Project Plans — a table of project-specific budgets.

Create either type with Create new → a Headcount budget (permanent headcount for the year) or a Project budget (a project's demand).

The Manpower Planning overview

The numbers it tracks

  • Planned headcount — the budgeted positions in the plan.

  • Current headcount — people already in role.

  • Need to hire — planned minus current.

  • Target achieved — the share of the plan filled (with In hiring showing requisitions raised against it).

💡 Approved requisitions count toward the plan, so it updates as roles are approved and filled.

Frequently asked questions

How does the plan connect to requisitions?

Requisitions define the roles to fill; approved ones count toward the plan, and as hires complete, current headcount and target achieved update.

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