Because too many places want overqualified people for underpaid jobs.
Ordinary-Violinist-9 on
– 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.
Wafkak on
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.
ToManyTabsOpen on
Isn’t this just the inverse of unemployment rate?
SubjectivePlastic on
What is a „job vacancy rate“?
salongee on
They want us to have 5 years of work experience at the age of 22.
Character-Ad-9861 on
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.
FarmerHuge7892 on
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.
Significant_Room_412 on
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…
bridgeton_man on
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.
Ruup010 on
Because doppen is way easier
sndr_rs on
Because the pay is usually ASS.
Good enough to get around.
Borderedge on
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.
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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.