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John Cockerill

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Manufacturing

CHALLENGE

• Ensure the recruitment of the best talent that is available on the market in order to enable John Cockerill to develop complex and high added value technological solutions in the area of sustainable development and renewables. • Manage the recruitment process at group level. • Organise the management of the contingent workforce (consultants working for the group) via an MSP service • Increase the mobility between and withing each company sector • Improve our Employer Branding

Results

Profile Group's on site team has been able to manage all the national & international recruitments of key strategic talent - including our contingent workforce.

RPO & MSP

johncockerill.com/en/
2017
Partner since
50 TO 450
# recruitments per year
- 50%
Recuitment cost
81 days
Time to hire

Since 2017, the in-house Profile Group team has been able to fully understand our needs, help us face our daily challenges and exceed our ambitions in terms of talent recruitment, management and retention. 

Pierre Dosogne

Group Talent Acquisition Manager

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About your Customer

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
  • Developing critical infrastructures

The Challenge

The Human Resource department needed a complete 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 very 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 negociation for the final offer that they create in collaboration with our HR team.

 

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. 

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