Process of Human Resources Planning consists of the following steps :

1. Analyzing organizational plans.

2. Demand Forecasting: forecasting the overall human resources requirements in accordance with the organizational plans.

3. Supply Forecasting : Obtaining the data and information about the present inventory of human resources and forecast the future changes in the human resources inventory.

4. Estimating the net human resources requirements.

5. In case of future surplus ,plan for redeployment, retrenchment and lay-off.

6. In case of future deficit, forecast the future supply of human resources from all sources with reference to plans of other companies.

7. Plan for recruitment ,development and internal mobility if future supply is more than or equal to net human resources requirements.

8. Plan to modify or adjust the organizational plan if future supply will be inadequate with reference to future net requirements.

The eight steps of human resources planning are depicted in the figure given below in the order mentioned above .But the same order need not be followed in the actual planning process as the steps are interdependent and sometimes, the first step and the last step may be processed simultaneously .And the planner sometimes may not explicitly process some steps .However, it is helped to the planner to plan for HR effectively without any complications if he/she has an idea about all steps of HRP. These are discussed in detail given below.