2023-05-02 15:07:53
Young people are also part of the important numbers of job seekers. In Wallonia, 18-25 year olds represent 19% of job seekers, in Brussels they are 10%. They are not yet long-term unemployed but they are already struggling to find a first job.
Seruan is 26 years old, he has been looking for a job for 5 months following a first contract expired:” It’s complicated, the crisis is here, that’s what we are told. Being unemployed is not a choice for me. I do my best to fit in with society. I apply, I go to Forem to seek advice, training ideas. I am thinking of tourism or IT in particular. But it is not obvious. I am young, and employers judge me on my experience. But I don’t have many… So they don’t call me back, yet everything can be learned.“
“Me, I applied in public transport but I was not taken because I do not speak Dutch“, explains Mélanie, 29 years old. This saleswoman has made up her mind, she will find no or very few job offers for her basic training, so she is thinking regarding reorienting herself: “I’m a researcher, I’m not in a vegetative state, but I can’t find. So the attacks on the unemployed, I find that absurd.“
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