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(10 - 33) Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30.3 - Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 April 2025
Employment effect (start)
9 April 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
Thales Group, a French-based global technology leader group, has announced the recruitment of 3,000 apprentices and trainees in France, of which around 25% will subsequently be hired on permanent or fixed-term contracts in 2025. This decision is in line with the group's expansion dynamic, which translated into the employment of more than 30,000 employees between 2022-2024. The group invests massively in a worldwide program of skills development - Learning company. It also possesses 13 academic fields and 18 trade academies.
A previous recruitment announcement for 4000 employees in 2022 was recorded in the ERM databaseThales 2022 - FR
Eurofound (2025), Thales, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 202587, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/202587.
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