# CareerOn Intelligence

> Sourced market intelligence on European industry, skills and junior talent. Bilingual (EN/FR), built for candidates, recruiters and decision-makers.

CareerOn publishes long-form, sourced market intelligence on European (France-first)
industry, technology sovereignty, skills and the junior talent market. Every article is
available in English and French. Citations reference public institutional sources
(OECD, WEF, Eurostat, company filings, France 2030 programme documents).

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## Editorial series
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## Topic hubs
- [Semiconductors](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/semiconductors) — industry
- [Aerospace](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/aerospace) — industry
- [Defense & Security](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/defense) — industry
- [Nuclear Energy](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/nuclear-energy) — industry
- [Hydrogen](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/hydrogen) — industry
- [Space](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/space) — industry
- [Cybersecurity](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/cybersecurity) — industry
- [HealthTech & Biotech](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/healthtech-biotech) — industry
- [Artificial Intelligence](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/artificial-intelligence) — industry
- [Luxury & Fashion](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/luxury-fashion) — industry
- [FinTech](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/fintech) — industry
- [Construction & Smart Cities](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/construction-smart-cities) — industry
- [AgriTech & FoodTech](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/agritech-foodtech) — industry
- [Maritime & Naval](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/maritime-naval) — industry
- [Cloud & Infrastructure](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/cloud-infrastructure) — industry
- [Industrial Software](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/industrial-software) — industry
- [Consulting & Professional Services](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/consulting) — industry
- [ASML](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/asml) — company
- [STMicroelectronics](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/stmicroelectronics) — company
- [Soitec](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/soitec) — company
- [Airbus](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/airbus) — company
- [Safran](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/safran) — company
- [Dassault Systèmes](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/dassault-systemes) — company
- [Thales](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/thales) — company
- [Schneider Electric](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/schneider-electric) — company
- [Air Liquide](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/air-liquide) — company
- [TotalEnergies](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/totalenergies) — company
- [LVMH](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/lvmh) — company
- [Sanofi](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/sanofi) — company
- [Siemens](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/siemens) — company
- [OVHcloud](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/ovhcloud) — company
- [Mistral AI](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/mistral-ai) — company
- [EDF](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/edf) — company
- [Naval Group](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/naval-group) — company
- [EUV Lithography](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/euv-lithography) — technology
- [Small Modular Reactors](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/small-modular-reactors) — technology
- [Green Hydrogen](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/green-hydrogen) — technology
- [Digital & Virtual Twin](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/digital-twin) — technology
- [Sovereign Cloud](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/sovereign-cloud) — technology
- [France 2030](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/france-2030) — policy
- [EU Chips Act](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/eu-chips-act) — policy
- [Reindustrialization](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/reindustrialization) — policy
- [Energy Sovereignty](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/energy-sovereignty) — policy
- [Skills Policy](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/skills-policy) — policy
- [Green Skills](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/green-skills) — skill
- [AI Skills](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/ai-skills) — skill
- [Technical Skills](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/technical-skills) — skill
- [Financial Modeling](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/financial-modeling) — skill
- [Communication Skills](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/communication-skills) — skill
- [Security Clearance](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/security-clearance) — skill
- [France](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/france) — geography
- [Europe](https://blog.career-on.org/topics/europe) — geography

## Editorial desks
- [CareerOn Research](https://blog.career-on.org/desk/career-on-research) — Industry & Market Intelligence Desk
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## Articles by category

### Company Deep-Dives (13)
- [LVMH: How Bernard Arnault Built a €400 Billion Luxury Empire — And Why France Is Its Secret Weapon](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/lvmh-luxury-empire-global-dominance-strategy-2025): An in-depth analysis of LVMH's unprecedented dominance in the global luxury market, examining the strategic acquisitions, vertical integration, and French savoir-faire that transformed a textile company into the world's most valuable luxury conglomerate.
- [Dassault Systèmes: The €65 Billion French Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — And Why It Powers Every Industry on Earth](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/dassault-systemes-3dexperience-industrial-metaverse-2025): An in-depth analysis of Dassault Systèmes, the world's largest industrial software company by scope, examining how its 3DEXPERIENCE platform has become the invisible operating system for aerospace, automotive, pharma, and defense — and why its talent strategy is reshaping French tech.
- [TotalEnergies: The US$16 Billion Bet on Becoming a Green Energy Supermajor — A Strategic Deep Dive](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/totalenergies-energy-transition-strategy-2025-analysis): A comprehensive analysis of TotalEnergies' ambitious transformation from oil & gas major to integrated energy company, examining its US$16B annual capex strategy (about €15B), LNG dominance, and the political tightrope between fossil fuels and renewables.
- [Inside McKinsey: What Management Consultants Actually Do Every Day](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/inside-mckinsey-what-consultants-do): Go beyond the prestige. Understand the day-to-day reality of management consulting at McKinsey, from case interviews to project delivery.
- [Siemens: How Europe's €140B Industrial Giant Is Winning the Factory-of-the-Future Race](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/siemens-industrial-digitalization-xcelerator-smart-infrastructure-2025): From Siemens Xcelerator to smart grid dominance — why this 177-year-old German powerhouse is outperforming Big Tech in industrial AI and digital twins.
- [Sanofi: The €130B Pharma Reinvention — How Dupixent and mRNA Are Reshaping Europe's Largest Drugmaker](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/sanofi-pharma-biotech-transformation-dupixent-mrna-2025): Inside Sanofi's radical transformation from diversified pharmaceutical conglomerate to focused immunology and mRNA powerhouse, with €50B+ in pipeline value.
- [Air Liquide: The Molecule Masters — From Industrial Gases to Green Hydrogen Leadership](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/air-liquide-green-hydrogen-careers-energy-transition): Air Liquide has committed roughly EUR 8 billion to low-carbon hydrogen by 2035. A working map of the Normandy and Antwerp-Rotterdam corridors: which of the group's four businesses will actually hire you, the six competences that get through the door, indicative euro pay bands, and what could invalidate the thesis.
- [Airbus: The Backlog Is Not the Bottleneck — Inside a Decade-Long Industrial Ramp](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/airbus-zeroe-hydrogen-fcas-fighter-aerospace-careers): Airbus holds a backlog measured in years of production, and that is precisely why order intake tells you almost nothing about its hiring. The binding constraint is industrial: rate, supply chain and certification. This dossier maps the constraint to the roles it creates.
- [STMicroelectronics: Hiring Inside a Downturn — Power, SiC and the 300 mm Reset](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/stmicroelectronics-crolles-semiconductor-careers-europe): STMicroelectronics is expanding capacity while its revenue falls. That contradiction is deliberate, and understanding it is the difference between a good semiconductor career decision and a bad one.
- [Schneider Electric and the AI Power Build-Out: Where Europe's Data Centre Jobs Actually Are](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/schneider-electric-ai-data-center-careers-energy-management): The AI build-out is an electrical engineering problem. Inside Schneider Electric's data centre business, and the five career families it is hiring for across Europe.
- [Thales: The Accreditation Moat — Sovereign Cloud, Defence Electronics and Where the Jobs Actually Are](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/thales-sovereign-cloud-defense-ai-cybersecurity-careers): Thales is not a technology company that happens to be certified. It is a certification company that happens to build technology — and that distinction explains its margins, its hiring, and which careers inside it compound.
- [Inside JPMorgan's Talent Pipeline: How the Largest Bank Identifies Future Leaders](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/inside-jpmorgan-talent-pipeline): Four entry routes, a four-layer assessment stack, and an internal market that matters more than the door you came through. What is documented, and what no one outside the bank can know.
- [How Deloitte Is Reinventing Professional Services Hiring with Skills-Based Assessment](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/deloitte-reinventing-hiring-skills-based): Deloitte moved the hiring filter from degree class to demonstrated skill. What the peer-reviewed validity evidence actually supports, where the model is weaker than the press release, and how to prepare for it.

### Skills Development (14)
- [How Steve Jobs Would Read the 2025 Jobs Report — A Contrarian's Guide to Career Strategy](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/steve-jobs-2025-jobs-report-contrarian-career-strategy): Everyone is reading the same WEF report and reaching the same conclusions. Here is how to think different about career strategy — through the lens of Apple's legendary founder.
- [The Employer's Skills Dilemma — Why 60% of Companies Can't Find the Talent They Need](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/employer-skills-dilemma-talent-shortage-solutions): 60% of employers report critical talent shortages. Yet millions of qualified candidates go unnoticed. The gap is not in skills — it is in how we define, find, and develop them.
- [The Green Skills Revolution — Why Sustainability Competencies Will Define the Next Decade](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/green-skills-revolution-sustainability-competencies-next-decade): Green talent is growing 38.5% year-over-year, but supply meets only 60% of demand. Here is the definitive guide to the green skills that actually pay — and how to get them.
- [The OECD Skills Compass 2025 — What 38 Economies Reveal About Your Career Future](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/oecd-skills-compass-2025-career-future): The OECD Skills Outlook 2025 analyzed workforce data across 38 economies. Here is what it means for your career — and what Steve Jobs would do with this data.
- [Build Your Skills Architecture — A Strategic Framework for Career-Long Competitive Advantage](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/skills-architecture-strategic-framework-career-advantage): Your career is a portfolio, not a path. Here is how to architect your skill stack like an investment fund — using the Core/Adjacent/Aspirational framework.
- [The 2026 Skills That Pay — Salary Premiums by Competency From 50,000 LinkedIn Profiles](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/2026-skills-that-pay-salary-premiums-competency): We analyzed salary data across 50,000 profiles. Here are the skills commanding the highest premiums in 2026 — and how to add them to your stack.
- [The AI Skills Paradox — Why the Most In-Demand Skill of 2026 Is Knowing What Not to Automate](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/ai-skills-paradox-2026-what-not-to-automate): AI skill adoption has grown 25x since 2022. But the real premium is not in using AI — it is in knowing where human judgment remains irreplaceable.
- [Future-Proof or Fall Behind — How to Build a 5-Year Skill Development Strategy](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/future-proof-5-year-skill-development-strategy): 44% of worker skills will be disrupted by 2027. Here is a complete 5-year strategy template — from quarterly audits to the updated 70-20-10 model for the AI age.
- [The Semiconductor Skills Stack — What STMicro, ASML, and Soitec Actually Want](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/semiconductor-skills-stack-stmicro-asml-soitec-careers): A definitive guide to the technical skills, certifications, and career pathways that Europe's leading semiconductor companies are actively hiring for in 2026.
- [The Energy Transition Skillset — Breaking Into Hydrogen, Nuclear, and Grid Tech](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/energy-transition-skills-hydrogen-nuclear-grid-careers): A comprehensive skills guide for careers in Europe's €300B energy transition—from green hydrogen to next-gen nuclear and smart grid technologies.
- [The Top 10 Technical Skills That Will Get You Hired in 2025](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/technical-skills-hired-2025): Data analysis, Python, cloud computing, and AI literacy top employer wish lists. Which skills should YOU prioritize based on your industry?
- [The Defense Tech Resume — Security Clearances, ITAR, and Dual-Use Technologies](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/defense-tech-resume-security-clearances-itar-careers): Everything you need to know about building a career in European defense technology—from obtaining security clearances to navigating export controls and dual-use regulations.
- [Financial Modeling for Beginners: The Skill That Opens Doors Across Industries](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/financial-modeling-beginners-guide): Financial modeling isn't just for investment bankers. From tech startups to healthcare systems, the ability to build and interpret financial models is the #1 quantitative skill employers demand.
- [The Communication Skills Gap: Why 73% of Employers Say Graduates Aren't Ready](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/communication-skills-gap-employers): The National Association of Colleges and Employers ranks communication as the #1 skill employers seek—yet most graduates enter the workforce critically underprepared. Here's the data and what to do about it.

### Industry Trends (20)
- [Farm to Future: AgriTech and FoodTech Careers Transforming France's €85 Billion Food System](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/agritech-foodtech-careers-france-ynsect-invivo): From insect protein to precision agriculture, French AgriTech has raised €1.2 billion and is revolutionizing Europe's largest agricultural sector. Discover careers at the intersection of technology and food sovereignty.
- [Commanding the Seas: Careers in France's €20 Billion Maritime and Naval Industry](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/maritime-naval-careers-france-naval-group-cma-cgm): From nuclear submarines to the world's third-largest shipping fleet, France's maritime sector employs 400,000 professionals. Explore careers spanning defense shipbuilding, offshore energy, and global logistics.
- [The FinTech Révolution: Careers in France's €15 Billion Digital Finance Ecosystem](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/fintech-careers-france-qonto-alan-ledger): From Qonto to Ledger, French fintech has produced 8 unicorns and raised €3.5 billion in 2023 alone. Discover career opportunities in Europe's fastest-growing financial technology hub.
- [Building Tomorrow: Careers in France's €150 Billion Sustainable Construction and Smart Cities Sector](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/sustainable-construction-smart-cities-france-vinci-saint-gobain): France's construction sector must decarbonize 30 million buildings and build €50 billion in Olympic infrastructure. From BIM engineers to retrofit specialists, explore careers reshaping the built environment.
- [The Artisan Economy: Careers in France's €170 Billion Luxury and Fashion Empire](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/luxury-fashion-careers-france-lvmh-hermes-kering): LVMH, Hermès, and Kering employ 300,000+ professionals worldwide. From haute couture artisans to e-commerce strategists, explore career paths in the world's most prestigious industry—headquartered in Paris.
- [The AI Archipelago: Data Science and Machine Learning Careers in France's €2.2 Billion Ecosystem](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/ai-data-science-careers-france-mistral-dataiku): France has become Europe's AI powerhouse with Mistral AI, Dataiku, and Criteo leading the charge. With 40,000+ AI positions and salaries rivaling London, discover why Paris is the continent's machine learning capital.
- [BioRevolution: HealthTech and Biotech Careers Reshaping France's €65 Billion Life Sciences Sector](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/healthtech-biotech-careers-france-sanofi-doctolib): France's life sciences sector employs 340,000 professionals and is investing €7 billion in biomanufacturing. From mRNA therapies to AI-powered diagnostics, discover the career frontier in European health innovation.
- [Digital Fortress: Cybersecurity Careers in France's Sovereign Defense Strategy](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/cybersecurity-careers-france-sovereign-defense-thales): With 15,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions and €1 billion in government investment, France's digital defense sector offers explosive career growth. From sovereign cloud to threat intelligence, explore Europe's cyber frontline.
- [Launch Pad to Career: France's New Space Revolution and Ariane 6](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/spacetech-careers-france-ariane6-new-space): From Ariane 6 to smallsat startups, France's €2.5 billion space sector is hiring 3,000+ professionals annually. Explore orbital career opportunities in Europe's space capital.
- [Nuclear Renaissance: EPR2, SMRs, and France's Energy Sovereignty](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/nuclear-renaissance-epr2-smrs-energy-sovereignty): France's aggressive bet on next-generation nuclear technology, featuring the construction of 6 to 14 new EPR2 reactors and the emergence of SMR startups, is reshaping the European energy landscape and creating massive opportunities for engineering talent.
- [France 2030 and the deeptech bet — how state-funded science actually hires](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/france-2030-industrial-renaissance-deeptech): France committed EUR 54 billion to industrial and deeptech renewal. Here is how that capital reaches a payroll, which ventures survived, and the roles it creates.
- [The €100B Reindustrialization Map — Every Major Investment Reshaping European Manufacturing](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/europe-100b-reindustrialization-map-manufacturing-investments): Europe announced over EUR 100 billion of industrial investment. Some of it is producing, some has slipped by years, one flagship went bankrupt. Where the jobs actually are.
- [2026 European Tech Hiring: Where the Next 200,000 Roles Actually Come From](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/2026-european-tech-hiring-forecast-200000-jobs): Most hiring forecasts are a number without a method. This one shows the arithmetic: the population base, the growth rate, the replacement demand, and the assumptions that would break it — sector by sector and country by country.
- [Safran and CFM: The Engine Room of European Aerospace](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/safran-cfm-aerospace-engine-careers-europe): Safran does not sell engines so much as it sells decades of maintenance on them. Understanding that single fact explains the hiring, the pay ladders, and where the risk sits.
- [Dassault Systèmes and the Virtual Twin: How a Software Company Became European Industrial Infrastructure](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/dassault-systemes-virtual-twin-3dexperience-careers): CATIA is not a drawing tool and 3DEXPERIENCE is not a CAD licence. Inside the virtual twin economy, its recurring-revenue engine, and the eleven careers it creates.
- [Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Materials Layer: Where Europe Actually Owns the Chip Stack](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/soitec-cea-leti-semiconductor-materials-careers-france): Europe does not lead in logic nodes. It leads in engineered substrates. Inside Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Grenoble materials layer — and the careers built on it.
- [OVHcloud & Scaleway: Sovereign Cloud Warriors — Building Europe's Digital Infrastructure](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/ovhcloud-scaleway-sovereign-cloud-careers-europe): Sovereign cloud means four different things with four different price tags. A sourced analysis of how OVHcloud's vertical integration and Scaleway's developer-experience bet compete on the two hardest layers — plus the six roles they hire and the four risks facing the sector.
- [ASML: The Company That Sells Resolution — Inside the Monopoly, and the Careers It Creates](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/asml-euv-lithography-careers-semiconductor-sovereignty): One Dutch company decides how small a transistor can be. Why that monopoly holds — supplier orchestration and service revenue, not patents alone — tells you which engineering careers inside it compound.
- [The US$8.5 Trillion Global Talent Shortage: Why Skills-Based Hiring Is No Longer Optional](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/talent-shortage-skills-based-hiring): Korn Ferry projects 85 million unfilled jobs by 2030—equivalent to the GDP of Germany and Japan combined. Skills-based hiring isn't a trend; it's an economic imperative.
- [AI and the Future of Work: Which Roles Are Growing, Shrinking, and Transforming](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/ai-future-of-work-roles-growing-shrinking): The WEF projects 69 million new jobs created and 83 million displaced by 2027. A data-driven analysis of who wins, who loses, and what you can do about it.

### Job Simulations (6)
- [The Ultimate Guide to Job Simulations: How Virtual Experiences Transform Careers](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/ultimate-guide-job-simulations): Discover how companies like McKinsey, Google, and Goldman Sachs use job simulations to identify talent—and how you can leverage them to explore careers, build skills, and land your dream role.
- [Why Job Simulations Are Replacing Resumes: The Data Behind Experiential Hiring](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/why-job-simulations-replacing-resumes): Research from SHRM, McKinsey, and Harvard reveals that job simulations predict performance up to 7x better than traditional resumes. Here's why the hiring paradigm is shifting.
- [The Complete Guide to Investment Banking Simulations: What Top Firms Actually Test](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/complete-guide-investment-banking-simulations): From DCF modeling to pitch deck construction—a detailed breakdown of the tasks, skills, and thinking patterns that IB simulations assess, based on data from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley programs.
- [Product Management Simulations: How Tech Giants Evaluate PM Talent](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/product-management-simulations-tech-giants): Google, Meta, and Amazon have pioneered simulation-based PM hiring. Here's what they test, why traditional interviews fall short, and how you can prepare.
- [Consulting Case Simulations vs. Traditional Case Interviews: A Data-Driven Comparison](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/consulting-case-simulations-vs-traditional-interviews): The digital screen decides whether you are seen; the structured case decides whether you are hired. What the 2022 revised validity estimates change for European consulting recruitment.
- [Data Science Simulations: From Kaggle to Corporate Assessment Centers](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/data-science-simulations-kaggle-corporate): How companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Airbnb use simulation-based hiring to identify data talent—and why Kaggle rankings alone don't cut it anymore.

### Career Guides (1)
- [Breaking Into Tech Without a CS Degree: 8 Accessible Career Paths](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/breaking-into-tech-without-cs-degree): You don't need a computer science degree to build a successful tech career. Here are 8 paths in.

### Simulation Spotlights (1)
- [The Goldman Sachs Markets Simulation: What to Expect & How to Prepare](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/goldman-sachs-markets-simulation): A complete walkthrough of the Goldman Sachs Excel Skills for Business simulation—one of the most popular on CareerOn.

### Talent Perspectives (1)
- [Gen Z Job Seekers: What We Actually Want From Employers in 2025](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/gen-z-what-we-want-from-employers): Purpose, flexibility, growth—but not in the way you think. Recent graduates share unfiltered priorities that challenge employer assumptions.

### Career Exploration (7)
- [Is Consulting Really Worth It? The Honest Pros & Cons for 2025](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/is-consulting-worth-it-2025): Exit opportunities, work-life balance realities, skill development, and compensation—we break down whether consulting delivers on its promises.
- [Inside Crolles 3 — Europe's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/inside-crolles-3-stmicro-semiconductor-fab-careers): Inside the Grésivaudan valley, STMicroelectronics' 300 mm build-out with GlobalFoundries is the physical test of Europe's chip strategy. A sourced analysis of the FD-SOI bet, the six job families a fab actually hires, the supplier layer, and the four risks that could slow the ramp.
- [The Normandy Hydrogen Valley: Inside Europe's Largest Green H2 Corridor — and the Jobs It Creates](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/normandy-hydrogen-valley-green-h2-careers-france): Normandy is building Europe's densest cluster of industrial-scale electrolysis. Inside the projects, the money, the binding constraints — and the nine job families being hired first.
- [FCAS/SCAF: Inside Europe's €100 Billion Combat Air Programme — Structure, Risk and Career Paths](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/fcas-fighter-jet-future-combat-air-system-careers): FCAS is not one fighter jet; it is seven technology pillars, three nations and a governance problem. A sourced read on the structure, the real risks, and the profiles being hired now.
- [High-NA EUV: Inside the Hardest Machine in Europe — and the Careers It Creates](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/high-na-euv-asml-careers-semiconductor-physics): High-NA EUV is not smaller light. It is a bigger aperture, a halved exposure field, and a physics problem that decides schedules. Here is the work, and who gets hired to do it.
- [Grand Paris Express: What Building Europe's Largest Metro Project Actually Requires](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/grand-paris-express-smart-infrastructure-careers): Four automated lines, 68 stations, roughly 200 km of mostly tunnelled track, and a cost estimate that moved. The engineering is hard; the interfaces are harder. Here is the work, and who is hired to do it.
- [From Campus to Career: The 2025 Graduate Employment Landscape in Numbers](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/campus-to-career-2025-graduate-employment): A comprehensive data analysis of graduate hiring trends, salary benchmarks, and the skills that separate candidates who land offers from those who don't.

### Hiring Trends (1)
- [Why Google Hires for Potential, Not Pedigree](https://blog.career-on.org/blog/google-hires-potential-not-pedigree): Google's shift toward skills-based assessments opens doors for non-traditional candidates. Here's how to position yourself.

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