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Key figures of the collaboration
Collaboration since
2017
Number of recruitments per year
50 to 450
Recruitment costs
-50%
Average time to hire
81 daysAbout John Cockerill
Driven, since 1817, by the entrepreneurial spirit and passion for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time in 6 major areas: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling responsible industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and developing critical infrastructures.
Its offer to companies, states and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures.
With over 8,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,417 billion in 2024 in 28 countries, on 5 continents.
The initial challenge
The HR department needed a new strategy enabling them to attract great talent able to support the ambitions of the John Cockerill group.
The solution
Profile Group provides a team of senior recruiters who are on-site at John Cockerill. These recruiters are highly skilled in the area of candidate sourcing and able to deal with the specialized profiles needed. They are here to attract new talents but also to constantly manage our own candidate database. They are in charge of improving our recruitment process and advising us specially during the delicate selection process.
In this role, they are true ‘sparring partners’ for our managers as they help in the definition of the roles, bring their knowledge of the candidate market and support at each step including the negotiation for the final offer that they create in collaboration with our HR team.
Profile Group is also responsible to help John Cockerill manage the contingent workforce, a growing part of the talent required for John Cockerill's future growth. This MSP solution covers the selection, onboarding and contract management for all consultants and freelancers in a centralized way.
"We have been able to attract talent coming from large international groups which enabled us to position outside our traditional markets."
The results
- The successful integration of the Profile Group recruiters in the 5 business units within our group (Industry, Defense, Energy, Environment, Services)
- The full management of all the national and international recruitments (Belgium, France or the US). In 2021, 27% of the recruitments managed by Profile Group were for the talent sourcing for our entities in France and the US.
- The qualitative recruitment of no less than 380 talents since the beginning of our collaboration. 70% of these recruitments were related due to the development of projects related to the energy and environmental transition.
