Zarah ChoudharyThales plans to recruit 8,000 people worldwide in 2025, in a bid to support the strong growth momentum across its three businesses.
Around 40% of new hires will join engineering roles (including software and systems engineering, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and data), while approximately 25% will join industrial roles (including technicians, operators and industrial engineers).
This builds on the momentum established in recent years, with over 30,000 new hires between 2022 and 2024, and over 8,000 internal mobility moves between 2023 and 2024.
In 2025, recruitment will take place across all regions of operation, including approximately 3,000 people in France, over 1,000 in the United Kingdom, 500 in the Netherlands, 400 in the United States, 400 in Australia, 300 in Central Europe, 250 in India, 200 in Germany, and 150 in Africa and the Middle East.
For the past three years, Thales has invested in its ‘learning company’ global skills development programme, delivered by 2,000 internal trainers as well as numerous tutors and mentors.
Since 2023, Thales has also increased the number of its academies, which are designed to share knowledge globally.
The Group now operates 13 Domain Academies (AI, Cybersecurity, Radar, Naval, Tube, Pyrotechnics, etc.) and 18 Functional Academies (Software, Hardware, Systems, Industry, Bid & Project Management, HR, Finance, Communication, etc.).
By the end of 2025, Thales will have more than 35 academies.
Clément de Villepin, senior executive vice president of human resources at Thales, said: “To support the group’s growth and performance, recruitment and internal mobility are essential, but we must go further.
“Giving our teams the opportunity to continuously develop their skills and encouraging them to pass on their expertise to colleagues is both the spirit and the ambition of our ‘Learning company’ programme.
“Our goal is to support the professional growth of our people and maintain Thales’s expertise at the highest level.”
