Education, applied sciences and paramedical are the sectors that offer the most job opportunities to young Brussels graduates, indicates the latest view.brussels study presented on Friday morning.
This Brussels Employment and Training Observatory has produced a ranking of the sectors that provide the fastest access to employment. To make this ranking, view.brussels calculated the percentage of young people under 30 who found a job of at least one month in the year following their registration with Actiris. Reference years include 2019 and 2020, the latter having been influenced by the coronavirus pandemic.
Overall, it is in education that young graduates have found the most sustainable work following one year (95.6%), as well as applied sciences (93.3%), paramedics (88.7%), administration and management (84.7%), social work and personal assistance 84.7%.
In a little more detail, the study shows that the four areas that offer the most job opportunities following graduating from upper secondary education (CESS) are childcare and nursing. (77.2%), followed by the field of security (72.7%) and the industrial field (72.2%).
For young people who continue their studies with a baccalaureate, education obtains an employment exit rate of 95.6%, paramedics 88.7%, social work and personal assistance 84.7 % and IT, 83%.
For masters, applied sciences, in particular, have a very high exit rate (93.3%), ahead of the “administration and management” (84.7%) and “law and criminology” (82.5%) programs. ).
Few job offers with low qualifications
The study also confirms that the Brussels employment market is increasingly demanding highly qualified profiles (+66% in twenty years). This is reinforced by the fact that only 1 job offer out of 7 in Brussels requires little qualification.
covid effect
Finally, the study shows that the consequences of the health crisis are tangible. The class of 2019, which entered the job market at the end of 2019 and in 2020, in the midst of the health crisis, encountered more difficulties in finding a job: their exit rate is on average lower ( 50%) than the class of 2018 (57.8%).
But, according to views.brussels, the crisis has had a positive effect all the same: the instability of the Brussels job market has encouraged more young people to extend their studies. “Given that the Brussels market is in demand of highly qualified profiles and that the employment exit rates are higher for young higher education graduates, this will offer them more chances of finding a job.“, concludes the Observatory.
