New hires are broken down into all of the group’s business sectors, including the aeronautics sector. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP
The electronics group plans to recruit more than 12,000 employees worldwide.
Thales plans to recruit more than 12,000 employees worldwide in 2023, including 4,000 job creations, driven by the dynamism of the aerospace, defense and security and digital identity sectors, the group announced. “It’s a record year“, underlined the director of human resources of the Clément de Villepin group. Hirings are broken down into all the group’s business sectors, including the aeronautics sector, whose activity had been affected during the health crisis due to Covid-19.
“Our activities – defense and security, aeronautics and space, identity and digital security, including cybersecurity – are all growing, which explains our significant recruitment needs, especially for young talents.“, underlined for his part the CEO of Thales, Patrice Caine, in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche. France, the main country of establishment of the French group, concentrates nearly half of the planned recruitments (5,500) and is 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 recruit at least 5,000 people per year“, Observed Clément de Villepin in front of some journalists.
More than 11,000 hires in 2022
In 2022, 11,500 people were hired, 32% of them women, bringing the workforce to 77,000 employees, not counting the 4,500 in 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 than 40% of planned hires relate to research and development activities (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 him. Support functions also represent 40% of recruitment, with the remaining 20% being industrial production and logistics activities. “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.