And the employment rate reaches a record level in Belgium, many trades are still facing a labor shortage. Actiris delivered both a statistical and qualitative analysis of these critical functions.
The Brussels-Capital Region currently has 113 professions identified as critical functions, for which employers are struggling to recruit. Construction, IT, education and personal care are particularly concerned.
By “critical function” is meant trades which represent a quantitative problem (there are too few candidates), a qualitative concern (the candidates do not have the right qualifications), or even difficult working conditions (dangerous work , night shift, precarious status, low pay, etc.). “Some functions may not appear as critical at the statistical level but have been flagged as such by the Actiris advisers in the field“, specifies the Brussels Regional Employment Office in a press release.
Finding work more easily
He insists on the fact that choosing a job in short supply means increasing your chances of finding a job. The employment office also points out that pursuing training or studies leading to these shortage occupations greatly increases the chances of finding a job. To obtain a job in these positions, there are also professional training courses with Actiris partners or work-study training (secondary or higher).
Here is the complete list so-called “critical” functions in the Brussels-Capital Region, most of the professions listed there for several years:
Administrative professions
- Public Finance Administration Officer
- Chief Accountant
- Accounting
- Insurance Advisor
- Credit Advisor
- Expert accountant
- Insurance manager
- Trustee of buildings
construction trades
- Landscape architect
- Tiler
- Building technical studies manager
- Site manager
- Scrap metal worker
- Site manager
- tower crane driver
- mobile crane driver
- Construction machinery driver
- Pitched roofer
- flat roofer
- Surveyor
- Sanitary installer
- Builder
- outdoor carpenter
- Interior carpenter
- Quantity Surveyor
- Interior fitter
- Aerial and underground cable and conduit fitter
- Central heating fitter
- road worker
- Painter and decorator
- Ceiling light
- Burner maintenance technician
Professions related to communication and knowledge
- ICT analysis-developer
- Business Analyst TIC
- Telecommunications network developer
- IT operations manager
Service professions
- Security money
- Public Security Officer
- Home help
- Sociocultural animator
- Assistant social
- Hairdresser
- Defense Collaborator
- Concierge
- Vocational guidance and training advisor
- Employment Advisor
- social assistance counselor
- beauty advisor
- Road network maintenance and surveillance operator
Horeca, trade and sales staff
- Real estate agent
- Barman
- Chef
- kitchen clerk
- Communal kitchen clerk
- To cook
- Sales representative for large accounts and companies
- Store manager in retail
- Butler
- pizza maker
- Catering diver
- Food department manager
- Waiter in a restaurant
- Waiter in a brewery
Industrial and artisanal trades
- Concrete industry manufacturing agent
- Production industry team leader
- construction draftsman
- Draftsman-designer in electricity and electronics
- maintenance electrician
- Industrial installer electrician
- maintenance mechanic
- Electrical and electromechanical equipment installer
- Production operator in the food industry
- Industrial quality control manager
- industrial maintenance manager
- Responsible for production methods and industrialization
- Responsible for production planning and management
- Elevator maintenance technician
- Industrial equipment maintenance technician
- Heating systems maintenance technician
- Industrial Automation Technician
- Refrigeration and air conditioning technician
Agricultural, horticultural, forestry and fish farming professions
Medical, paramedical and care professions
- Caregiver
- Assistant pharmaco-technique
- Occupational therapist
- Male nurse
- head nurse
- Infirmier social
- Specialist nurse in the operating room
- Pediatric specialist nurse
- Speech therapist
- Doctor
- Pharmacist
- childcare worker
- medical laboratory technologist
- Medical Imaging Technologist
Teaching professions
- Pedagogical coordinator
- Educator-accompanying
- Teacher in secondary education
- Teacher in nursery or primary education
- Specialized secondary education teacher
- Trainer for adults
- Driving school instructor
- Monitor-animator in the social economy
- Higher education teacher
Transport and logistics professions
- Delivery driver
- bus driver
- Truck driver with trailer
- Heavy-duty skip loader driver
- Delivery courier
- Dispatcher of the road transport of people
- Storekeeper
- Logistics Manager
