Mr. Chair, we do a couple of different functions with respect to human resource planning. In the management and recruitment services division, the client service managers provide assistance and guidance to program managers in their human resource planning. They work with the human resource succession and workforce planning individuals who are in our corporate structure to provide departments with information on exactly what their workforce is made up of, the composition, the number of employees who could certainly reach retirement or be eligible for retirement in the next five or ten years. Then they work with managers on looking at how they are going to plan to fill in those jobs as individuals leave.

As part of their human resource planning, the client service managers look at what the appropriate method is to assist them in filling vacancies as they are coming up.