Hilder relishes role as Thales UK sourcer
Rob Hilder, the newly-appointed UK head of sourcing at Thales Group, has told Recruiter he is relishing the new opportunity of developing the sourcing operation to “really be seen as a valued function” in the business.
He described his new role as breaking down into three areas. First is “the very sophisticated work to deliver an outcome — meaning a hire, then secondly I get to feed into a number of projects that relate to attraction, then the third piece is the longer-term approach, which is engaging talent communities”.
Hilder told Recruiter the new role is “quite a change for me” having come from agency world, most recently at Penna placing interim managers in transportation and infrastructure.
“Despite the fact that it’s working for a single company… the exposure I will get is far broader,” he commented.
• See Recruiter, October 2013, p32 for our feature on how agencies and corporate are sourcing recruitment talent.
