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 HR department needed a new strategy enabling them to attract great talent able to support the ambitions of the John Cockerill group.
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."