In 2023, the prestigious Beauval Zoo or the Feuillette bakery will shake up the job market in Centre-Val-de-Loire. Less mainstream but very efficient, Hervé Thermique, an ETI (Intermediate-sized company) in the energy sector, is also making its place among the big recruiters.
Key employment figures in Centre-Val-de-Loire
The top 3 sectors that are recruiting
- Human health and social action
- Administrative services
- Accommodation and catering
The top 3 most sought-following professions
- Accounting
- Warehousing and order preparation
- Domestic services
Unemployment rate : 6,9%
At the head office in Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire), the atmosphere is serene. “2023 should be a continuation of 2022. We are going to create 200 permanent positions, not counting the retirements who will all be replaced”, announces the chairman of the management board of the Hervé Group, of which Hervé Thermique is the emblematic company.
The 50-year-old group, whose turnover amounts to 600 million euros, is established in 80 cities in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, as well as in Morocco and the Indian Ocean. In total, Hervé Thermique and its subsidiaries bring together more than 3,400 specialists in the fields of HVAC engineering, electrical engineering and energy management in works and maintenance. “We are mainly looking for technicians, site managers, project managers, management assistants and activity managers”, lists Emmanuel Hervé.
From apprenticeship to CDI
Not the shortage of labor for the company: “Three quarters of our hiring is done via positive word-of-mouth from employees”, welcomes the one who favors behavioral qualities (“soft skills” ) rather than know-how. “This allows us to recruit people in retraining or coming from immigration,” he explains. “Apprenticeship, at group level, represented 5% of the workforce in 2019, we are at 10% in 2022 and the objective is 15% in 2025. For Hervé Thermique alone, we have gone from 85 apprentices in 2021 to 170 in 2022, i.e. + 100%. Two-thirds of apprentices will be hired on permanent contracts. »
The group also hires people far from the world of work, thanks in particular to a partnership with Pass’sport pour l’emploi, created by starred chef Thierry Marx and Benoît Campargue, European judo champion, coach of the France and former sports manager of Teddy Riner.
Artificial intelligence
“We are not a big company with 3,400 employees, but organized from a managerial point of view into 230 small companies with ten to twenty people. The objective is to make employees want to be intra-entrepreneurs, autonomous collaborators in the organization, responsible for management and the relationship with their customers, and wanting to work in a collaborative and cooperative way”, explains Emmanuel Herve.
Hervé Thermique is the first medium-sized company with more than 2,000 employees in the Centre-Val de Loire to have received the Quality of Life at Work certification issued by the Great Place to Work organization. “The feelings and experiences of employees, interviewed anonymously by an external body, correspond well to what management recommends”, welcomes the boss.
Recruitment is the subject of constant questioning: “Artificial intelligence is developing and everything that involves expertise will be done largely by robots and machines. The behavioral qualities of individuals on how to implement personalized and tailor-made technical know-how will create the difference. Our management and our recruitment must take this development into account,” concludes the president of the company.
These companies are also hiring in 2023
- Zoo Parc de Beauval, Saint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher): 700 people on fixed-term contracts
- Feuillette bakery, Chaussée-Saint-Victor (Loir-et-Cher), 500 people
- Novo Nordisk, Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), 100 people
Our dossier “Who is hiring in 2023 and how”
- The heavyweights of recruitment in France
- Employment center: “The bet is to say that everyone is employable”
- The French Navy recruits more than 4,000 people
- In Île-de-France, jobs in all sectors
- The City of Paris is looking for between 2,500 and 3,000 positions
- Over 10,000 jobs at Parc Astérix and Disneyland Paris
- In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, made in France is boosting textiles
- In Bourgogne Franche-Comté, more than 600 jobs at Framatome
- Brittany in full employment
- In Brittany, we play basketball to find talent
- In Brittany, Thalès relies on microelectronics
- In Centre-Val-de-Loire, this company recruits through word of mouth
- In Corsica, helping seniors is the future
- In the Grand Est, we are restoring confidence to the long-term unemployed
- In Hauts-de-France, Fine Arts at the service of employment
- In Normandy, the CV sometimes stays in the cloakroom
- In New Aquitaine, the forestry sector is looking for arms
- In Occitania, aeronautics takes off once more
- In Pays de la Loire, luxury leather goods still seduce
- In Paca, we test the service to the person
- Overseas, needs in all sectors
Region by region, sector by sector, discover our special file on the companies and sectors that are hiring in 2023. With new initiatives between companies and potential recruits which are carried out around sport and art. Objective: to “match” supply and demand, in the face of a job market rich in thousands of positions, but some of which are struggling to be filled.
