During the time when top companies are laying off employees to maintain their balance sheets, the French defense and technology group Thales is planning to hire 12,000 new staff this year considering the strong demand across its product range, said the sources.
More Hiring In Horizon
In its plan to hire all over the world, the company expects to take on 5,500 new employees in France, 550 in India, 1,050 in the United Kingdom, 600 in Australia, and 540 in the United States.
The CEO Patrice Caine, Le Journal du Dimanche said, over the past eight years Thales, which has a total staff of 80,000 of which 40,000 in France, had recruited 5,000 to 8,000 people per year and that last year already it had hired 11,500 new staff, during a media interview.
Further adding that all the firm’s activities, defense and security, aeronautics and space, identity and digital security were growing strongly.
Upcoming Opportunities
Notably, the company is recruiting people on permanent or fixed-term contracts as well as providing several internal mobility opportunities in Thales in India and across the globe.
The French multinational is mainly seeking hardware engineers, software engineers, systems architects, experts in digital technologies and project managers, offering them the opportunity to help to build a safer, greener, more inclusive world, as per the media report.
Besides this, the company is also working to improve the gender balance in its workforce.
For instance, women accounted for 25% of new hires in India during 2022 which represented 22% of the Group’s India workforce.
The company is a reflection of its markets which are all seeing dynamic growth with needs growing in all its fields of activity, Caine said.
In recent times, Thales CEO has also met with Ukraine’s defense minister and said that France would deliver its Ground Master 200 radar air defense system to Ukraine in May, as per the media report.
The shares of Thales – Europe’s largest arms electronics provider have risen nearly 60% to new all-time highs since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022.
This has outperformed the Refinitiv Europe Aerospace and Defense index.
