Because too many places want overqualified people for underpaid jobs.
– To many specific jobs with few people suitable for it. (Experience, skill, coursed,…)
– location. Not everyone is willing to drive/commute to Brussels, Antwerp etc for a job. because of the heavy traffic already
– low pay. No incentive to switch jobs f.e.
– a lot of ‘vacancies’ actually are already filled but companies keeping them online to build a database of resumes and f.e. VDAB does nothing to take them down.
A lot of thise vacancies that ask no degree or experience don’t respond when you apply.
This is a tactic to strengthen their position towards their current employees.
Isn’t this just the inverse of unemployment rate?
What is a “job vacancy rate”?
They want us to have 5 years of work experience at the age of 22.
In my experience a lot of the vacancies are literally fake/ they have been filled for months but still keep them on to lure people in so that they can get all your information and then try to get you to take completely unrelated jobs. There is nothing interim offices love more than putting you in their database and then forgetting you exist.
as someone whos currently looking for work:
the job search system is awful. vast majority of companies wont do the effort of even listing job openings on their own website so they just outsource it to interim offices who are highly incompetent
so you register for the 30 interim companies and scour their website every day
then for every job listing youre interested in you call them, explain your reasoning to someone who couldnt care less, schedule another 30 minute meeting on another day with someone who cares slightly more, that person will maybe suggest you to the company, a week later that company will maybe reply back for an interview another week later, and then you might get a call back if you got the job.
Because we still have a very highly skilled and educated workforce,
And many job openings pay 2500 bruto,
which is hardly enough to survive
Why take those jobs when there are much better options available?
Many of those jobs remain open for years,
cause the high social contributions on salary, and additional taxes/ employee costs don’t make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise those salaries…
In my field, the issues are basically 2:
1. Belgian employers are extremely protectionist and nationalist. Some employers would literally hire an illiterate Flemish person before an overqualified expat.
2. Almost the whole of Belgium is commuting distance to neighboring countries, whose job markets pay more, and are less xenophobic. So many, many people would rather take an equivalent job in Lille or Paris or Cologne or Luxembourg, all else equal.
Because doppen is way easier
Because the pay is usually ASS.
Good enough to get around.
I’d ask that to the interim who wanted me, with two master degrees and 6/7 language on a B1 level at least, to work for 2500€ brutto without food vouchers and mobility reimbursement… In Zaventem.
Putting this aside, I’ll probably strike a nerve… But full employment and lack of workers, as per statistics, only occurs in Vlaanderen.
Those who speak Dutch are mostly either employed or go to the Netherlands where the pay is higher. There are not enough workers who speak Dutch (myself included but I’m working on it) and just about every vacancy requires perfect bilingualism… Which I find funny as Dutch is not even compulsory in Wallonia. I found myself, with an A2/B1 level, speaking it better than native Belgians from there who never studied it in school.
So yeah, that’s part of the reason why the job vacancies are higher. Few people from outside Belgium are willing to move to Vlaanderen, unless they have a partner from there (I’ve lived there before and seen it over and over) , and those that stay often work in the Netherlands. There’s no major city that’s a cultural hub like Amsterdam or Paris and there’s no capital like Luxembourg.
I’m very happy to be back though. Signed, a guy looking for work.
Bad immigration policy and overpowered syndicates. Some will advise you not to take a job because they earn better money if you’re unemployed.
If there are vacancies then why aren’t the employers willing to sponsor work permit for expats? What’s the issue with that? I’m aware of the time it takes from Brussels to issue work permit. But what else is there?
Because Flanders has a very low unemployment rate.
Some companies have job postings reposted every month while not replying to your applications… so I only assume it’s fake ones for whatever reason. Also same jobs posted by 10 interims are common.
Lots of UK recruiters advertising fake jobs, or 10-20 agencies advertising one single real job.
Nobody wants to work anymore
Language requirements
My wife was interviewed for a job, got told they’re desperate for her to join. Took 3 months of waiting for a contract offer. Was below market value she turned it down. Job posting still up, 6 months later.
I don’t know for other countries, but in Belgium half of the vacancies are fake.
Descriptions and offerings that do not match in something, you might expect someone with the qualifications would be reasonably say yes to.
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Because too many places want overqualified people for underpaid jobs.
– To many specific jobs with few people suitable for it. (Experience, skill, coursed,…)
– location. Not everyone is willing to drive/commute to Brussels, Antwerp etc for a job. because of the heavy traffic already
– low pay. No incentive to switch jobs f.e.
– a lot of ‘vacancies’ actually are already filled but companies keeping them online to build a database of resumes and f.e. VDAB does nothing to take them down.
A lot of thise vacancies that ask no degree or experience don’t respond when you apply.
This is a tactic to strengthen their position towards their current employees.
Isn’t this just the inverse of unemployment rate?
What is a “job vacancy rate”?
They want us to have 5 years of work experience at the age of 22.
In my experience a lot of the vacancies are literally fake/ they have been filled for months but still keep them on to lure people in so that they can get all your information and then try to get you to take completely unrelated jobs. There is nothing interim offices love more than putting you in their database and then forgetting you exist.
as someone whos currently looking for work:
the job search system is awful. vast majority of companies wont do the effort of even listing job openings on their own website so they just outsource it to interim offices who are highly incompetent
so you register for the 30 interim companies and scour their website every day
then for every job listing youre interested in you call them, explain your reasoning to someone who couldnt care less, schedule another 30 minute meeting on another day with someone who cares slightly more, that person will maybe suggest you to the company, a week later that company will maybe reply back for an interview another week later, and then you might get a call back if you got the job.
Because we still have a very highly skilled and educated workforce,
And many job openings pay 2500 bruto,
which is hardly enough to survive
Why take those jobs when there are much better options available?
Many of those jobs remain open for years,
cause the high social contributions on salary, and additional taxes/ employee costs don’t make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise those salaries…
In my field, the issues are basically 2:
1. Belgian employers are extremely protectionist and nationalist. Some employers would literally hire an illiterate Flemish person before an overqualified expat.
2. Almost the whole of Belgium is commuting distance to neighboring countries, whose job markets pay more, and are less xenophobic. So many, many people would rather take an equivalent job in Lille or Paris or Cologne or Luxembourg, all else equal.
Because doppen is way easier
Because the pay is usually ASS.
Good enough to get around.
I’d ask that to the interim who wanted me, with two master degrees and 6/7 language on a B1 level at least, to work for 2500€ brutto without food vouchers and mobility reimbursement… In Zaventem.
Putting this aside, I’ll probably strike a nerve… But full employment and lack of workers, as per statistics, only occurs in Vlaanderen.
Those who speak Dutch are mostly either employed or go to the Netherlands where the pay is higher. There are not enough workers who speak Dutch (myself included but I’m working on it) and just about every vacancy requires perfect bilingualism… Which I find funny as Dutch is not even compulsory in Wallonia. I found myself, with an A2/B1 level, speaking it better than native Belgians from there who never studied it in school.
So yeah, that’s part of the reason why the job vacancies are higher. Few people from outside Belgium are willing to move to Vlaanderen, unless they have a partner from there (I’ve lived there before and seen it over and over) , and those that stay often work in the Netherlands. There’s no major city that’s a cultural hub like Amsterdam or Paris and there’s no capital like Luxembourg.
I’m very happy to be back though. Signed, a guy looking for work.
Bad immigration policy and overpowered syndicates. Some will advise you not to take a job because they earn better money if you’re unemployed.
If there are vacancies then why aren’t the employers willing to sponsor work permit for expats? What’s the issue with that? I’m aware of the time it takes from Brussels to issue work permit. But what else is there?
Because Flanders has a very low unemployment rate.
Some companies have job postings reposted every month while not replying to your applications… so I only assume it’s fake ones for whatever reason. Also same jobs posted by 10 interims are common.
Lots of UK recruiters advertising fake jobs, or 10-20 agencies advertising one single real job.
Nobody wants to work anymore
Language requirements
My wife was interviewed for a job, got told they’re desperate for her to join. Took 3 months of waiting for a contract offer. Was below market value she turned it down. Job posting still up, 6 months later.
I don’t know for other countries, but in Belgium half of the vacancies are fake.
Descriptions and offerings that do not match in something, you might expect someone with the qualifications would be reasonably say yes to.
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