Our goal is to match our market leadership with a best-in-class recruitment policy. We hire people from a variety of backgrounds and take active steps to fight all forms of discrimination. Recruiting local staff in all our countries of operation helps us to understand our customers better. And having four or five nationalities working together in the same team generates a range of different points of view that can inspire new ideas.
The core values of the Group are not confined within national borders. Thales believes that having a well-lead and diverse team can lead to a much higher performance within the workplace as it brings with it innovative thinking, increased engagement and employee retention.
As a company known for innovation and high-end technology, Thales provides initiatives that deliver professional development opportunities, meaningful missions and programmes, teamwork and a multicultural environment to bring out the best in an employee.
Today, Thales has women forming nearly 22% of its workforce worldwide. One of the aims of our recruitment policy is to raise that proportion — 27.5% of new hires worldwide last year were women — and to provide more opportunities for women to drive the company's future success.
We recruit a significant proportion of our workforce from engineering schools, but the number of women attending these schools is falling. Thales is trying to address this problem through initiatives aimed at attracting young women to scientific and technical careers, such as the Women’s Forum and the Elles Bougent association.
With Thales present across different markets, employees are exposed to a diverse work portfolio that provides interesting and challenging opportunities and also enhances job satisfaction. This is achieved through job rotation within different departments, portfolios or Thales’s entities in other countries.
Thales is proactive in promoting gender equality. Our aim is to get women interested in technical professions and the technology industry, to win them over to our company and to support them in shaping their careers. Thales strives to make its employees feel valued and appreciated for all of their hard work and contributions to the company’s success.