“It’s a record year”, underlined Clément de Villepin, director of human resources of the Thales group.
He plans to hire more than 12,000 employees in the world in 2023, of which 4,000 job creations. Hirings are broken down into all the group’s business sectors, including the aeronautics sector, whose activity had been damaged during the health crisis due to Covid-19.
“Our activities – defense and security, aeronautics and space, identity and digital security, including cybersecurity – are all in growthwhich explains our significant recruitment needs, especially for young talents”, stressed for his part the CEO of Thales, Patrice Caine, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper.
5,500 recruitments in France
France, the main country of establishment of the tricolor group, concentrates nearly half of the planned recruitments (5,500) and distributed throughout the territory.
The movement is similar in the major areas where Thales is established: 3,350 recruitments in Europe (including 1,050 in the United Kingdom), 730 in Asia, mainly in Singapore, 730 in North America, more than 600 in Australia and 550 in India , where the group has a design office in aeronautics and engineering activities dedicated to digital security.
“This growth dynamic has existed for many years, since 2015 we have been recruiting at least 5,000 people per year“observed Clément de Villepin in front of a few journalists.
In 2022, 11,500 people were hired, including 32% womenbringing the workforce to 77,000 employees – not counting the 4,500 of its Land Transport division being sold.
The group had not laid off during the pandemic, in particular having switched to other activities of employees working in the aeronautics sector.
More positions than graduates
More than 40% of planned recruitments relate to the activities of research (artificial intelligence, cyber, algorithms, systems engineers, etc.), i.e. 5,500 people, including 2,200 in France.
It is “the sap of what makes the development of Thales”according to the director of human resources of Thales.
THE support functions also represent 40% of recruitments, the remaining 20% being the activities of industrial production and logistics.
“Like all companies in the sector”, Thales says it faces recruitment difficulties but has so far achieved its objectives. “There are significantly more open positions than young graduates leaving school”he argued.
