They’re in the defence industry, so I understand why they put limits on nationality. Their selection is very weird, though. Even with security clearance issues, you’d expect a French company to put French citizenship on the list.
The job description is here. My guess is that the “TACTICOS Combat Management System” is being developed on from various offices, and that they’d like someone to either be fully local or be able to communicate efficiently with any other office (to prevent cultural communication boundaries or something like that).
It’s also possible this is some kind of passport thing. Not every country has passport deals with the same countries. If there’s a chance you need to be shipped off to a certain place, the whole process will be a lot easier if you have a passport that allows for a quick and easy work visa.
I don’t think it’s the passport thing. The differences between European passports are minor, so in that matter you surely could accept all EU nationalities. If you really want the best ones, then Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are among the ones that bring you the farthest in the world, and those are not in the list, while Greece and Norway are less powerful passports, and the USA, Canada and Australia even less, and all of them are in the list.
I also can’t figure out why their selection is what it is. But Thales is not really 1 company. Tacticos is developed by the Dutch branch (note that the location of this job is Hengelo), which means it is treated as a Dutch company for export control purposes, not a French one.
My guess would be that they have existing export contracts for new versions of Tacticos to these countries.
I suppose, but I’m pretty sure we Dutch and the French are allies, so I can’t imagine why a subsidiary of a French company in the Netherlands would have problems with French employees
They’re in the defence industry, so I understand why they put limits on nationality. Their selection is very weird, though. Even with security clearance issues, you’d expect a French company to put French citizenship on the list.
The job description is here. My guess is that the “TACTICOS Combat Management System” is being developed on from various offices, and that they’d like someone to either be fully local or be able to communicate efficiently with any other office (to prevent cultural communication boundaries or something like that).
It’s also possible this is some kind of passport thing. Not every country has passport deals with the same countries. If there’s a chance you need to be shipped off to a certain place, the whole process will be a lot easier if you have a passport that allows for a quick and easy work visa.
I don’t think it’s the passport thing. The differences between European passports are minor, so in that matter you surely could accept all EU nationalities. If you really want the best ones, then Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are among the ones that bring you the farthest in the world, and those are not in the list, while Greece and Norway are less powerful passports, and the USA, Canada and Australia even less, and all of them are in the list.
https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
Of course it could be one or multiple specific countries they want you to travel, but chances for that are low. Clearance sounds much more likely.
I also can’t figure out why their selection is what it is. But Thales is not really 1 company. Tacticos is developed by the Dutch branch (note that the location of this job is Hengelo), which means it is treated as a Dutch company for export control purposes, not a French one.
My guess would be that they have existing export contracts for new versions of Tacticos to these countries.
I suppose, but I’m pretty sure we Dutch and the French are allies, so I can’t imagine why a subsidiary of a French company in the Netherlands would have problems with French employees
This is a forgein site offer and maybe they prefer french people working in France
Wasn’t France dropped by the USA for Australia two years ago?