Wieder mehr Engpassberufe in Flandern: Minister Demir besteht auf Kenntnis von Niederländisch
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/01/31/opnieuw-meer-knelpuntberoepen-in-vlaanderen-vdab-2025/
Von atrocious_cleva82
Wieder mehr Engpassberufe in Flandern: Minister Demir besteht auf Kenntnis von Niederländisch
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/01/31/opnieuw-meer-knelpuntberoepen-in-vlaanderen-vdab-2025/
Von atrocious_cleva82
10 Kommentare
>“Bottleneck professions are ~~shitty jobs with shitty conditions/wage that employers refuse to improve and nobody but desperate people like migrants want to take~~ jobs for which there are too few candidates, for which you need certain technical skills or where specific working conditions – such as heavy work or night work – make the job less attractive,“ explains Lies Reynaert of the VDAB. „So we are looking for short -skilled, but also very highly skilled people.“
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Maybe if they offered better pay for bottleneck professions people would actually do them. They are usually shitty jobs that are looked down upon.
bottleneck jobs is a strange way of saying underpaid jobs where the qualifications required outweigh the valuation of labour
There are no bottleneck jobs, only a lack of decent pay 🤣
I can and will do about any of those (techical) jobs if you pay me enough.
If the job requires knowledge of Dutch, sure, but do you really want to impose more conditions on jobs that apparently most people don’t want anyway? Seems like a counterintuitive attempt at pandering to the right.
I’ve been trying to apply to a bottleneck profession as data scientist for 2 years now, just to get ghosted, hear how i have no experience get thrown out or just to hear “just be a teacher by them”.
At this point im convinced that they shoot themselves in the foot by constantly rejecting juniors that just graduated, just because teaching people “cost money” and are too lazy to do it.
Can companies make up their mind for once, crying that nobody wants to work while shooting yourselves in the foot is pathetic.
Looking at the list in the article (the ten new ones) there are some on them no one wants to do (fruitteelt, schoonmaker) and looks down upon, but there are also highly paid ones/requiring technical skills. For much of these learning Dutch is an absolute prerequisite.
* Boekhouder
* Calculator bouw
* Machinebouwer
* Onderhoudsmecanicien
* Technicus industriële installaties
* Technieker werf-, landbouw- en hefmachines
* Werfleider
* Verpleegkundige
* Medewerker in de fruitteelt
* Schoonmaker bij mensen thuis
Just living in this country and not being able to speak the language is a spit in the face of the people you want as your neighbours. The least you can do is learn the language (As I did when I moved to Belgium with my family). Dat is het absolute minimum minimorum. Demir krijgt van mij (hier) eens gelijk.
As social worker who works with people who are new to Belgium, I can say that learning Dutch is the most important thing to do for newcomers. I always make it a standard to include it in the contract they sign for receiving a leefloon/alimentation social.
Most of these people want to work but get rejected because their Dutch is not good enough and they get stuck at the actual shitty jobs that offer low pay and no future prospective.
Délocaliser en Wallonie, vous serez bien accueillis.
I work in unemployment and the number of skilled workers from different countries who cannot find a job because 1) for some reason this country doesn’t recognize them and 2) language requirements/issues is too high imo.
I’ve seen people with mathematics degrees from universities in Somalia forced to be warehouse employers for shitty interims. They cannot for the life of them find a job on their level. Sure there might be difference in Mogadishu University compared to KU Leuven but you’re not telling me these people don’t have the capacities to do something more fitting lol.
Language is important, I get it. But it sometimes feels like a very semantic discussion to have while we have lots of people willing and capable of doing things we need done.