Nouveau job? Le prochain stop! VDAB and Actiris convert from Brussels bus to job in the Vlaamse rand

Economy Job-French speaking inhabitants of Brussels the step to put them to the free vacancies in the Vlaamse rand. That is the goal of the new campaign “Nouveau job? Le prochain stop!" by employment services VDAB and Actiris was launched. With a "job on, hop off"-bus were candidates on the Brussels Muntplein to potential employers in the Vlaamse rand.

In 2018 received the VDAB preferably 14.672 vacancies in the Vlaamse rand, only 3,000 of them are not yet completed. The candidates went, therefore, with the bus along with companies such as Brussels Airlines, bpost, Colruyt Group, G4S or Aviato. Because of the language gap and the distance dare jobseeker French-speaking residents of Brussels tend not to step up to the edge. the

"The jobs are not physically far away, with public transport you can within the half an hour at your new employer. And through language we are able to quickly and easily build bridges", says Geert Pauwels, director of the VDAB, in Brussels. the
to show that the distance to the edge is low, find job seekers from today, on the campaign website www.nouveaujob.be an interactive map of all jobs in the edge view, and at the same time the journey time shows for the various means of transport.

9.000 taalcheques

Also to the language gap is hard. Actiris share annually nearly 9,000 taalcheques to Inhabitants, to lessons English and follow in 2018 has VDAB Brussels 1.460 training Dutch for Brussels job seekers, almost a doubling compared to the 761 training English in 2017.