Scenario

New ministry of electricity to cost R100m, minister reveals his recruitment plans

Electricity Minister Kgosiento Ramokgopa is preparing a significant number of officials to be appointed in his ministry in the next few weeks, he said at the weekend. Ramokgopa diclosed his plans for his new ministry at the Koeberg nuclear power plant over the weekend. He has been tasked by President Cyril Ramaphosa to put an end to the country's load shedding crisis.

The new minister is on a countrywide tour of Eskom power plants Responding to a Cape Argus question about the capacity of his ministry. [Ramokgopa] said the private sector would assist in recruitment. He referred to the R100m Resource Mobilisation Fund (RMF) which he helped launch two days after he was appointed as the electricity minister. Ramokgopa said the RMF would come in handy in the recruitment of experienced and skilled labour for his office. We're still working on the number, but it will be a significant number of people that we want to help usthose who have experience in (electricity) generation, the grid, project management and expertise on how to get the message out to the public to address issues of the demand. We're aggregating those numbers he said.

Question

1. In order for the Ministry to be fully capacipated, proper workforce, planning needs to be undertaken. Provide reasons why workforce planning needs to be undertaken.
2. The new ministry will be expected to conduct recruitment for different positions. Whether the recruitment will be conducted internallyor externally, there are some factors that will either speed up or delay the process. Discuss the external factors that will influence the recruitment process
3. The process of workforce planning requires one to analyse each job that has been identified. List all stages that are involved in the job analysis.