Workforce development is a broad concept that aims to improve entire industry workforces by an assortment of strategies and techniques including population, migration, regional development, health and retirement, industrial and human resource and specific training policies.

Workforce development includes:

• plan - workforce planning
• attract - attracting people to the industry
• recruit - source, screen, select, induct
• manage - personnel management
• develop - training and experience
• retain - work retention strategies
• return - re-engaging older workers