The unemployment rate is on the rise in Wallonia and Brussels. The number of unemployed job seekers has increased by 10% in one year in Wallonia. There are 219,000 unemployed job seekers, for an unemployment rate of 13.7%. Young people under 25 experience the highest increase: +18%.
In Brussels too, the number of unemployed increased by 1.5% to reach 15.3%. And once more, young people are especially concerned.
And yet, there are a lot of job offers: 21,000 on the Forem site. February and March are very important months for recruitment, as job fairs are organized during this period.
Among the sectors that recruit the most, we find the manufacturing industry, construction, trade, transport and the catering industry.
If some require in-depth training, often it is possible to quickly get a job with a very short training.
This is the case of the catering industry where, in 4 weeks of training, you can already become a clerk or a waiter. In the construction sector too, some short Forem training courses allow you to quickly find a job. It is also possible to participate in work-study training to already work while continuing to train.
“It can go very very quicklyexplains Frédéric Deroppe, trainer for the Horeca Forma Wallonie centre. We will very soon be organizing job discoveries that will last two weeks: one in the dining room and one in the kitchen to really discover the two sides of the job. And then, four weeks of training and four weeks of internship and they will be able to go to work in the sector knowing that they will always be able to continue to come and learn directly from the boss. There, we will really supervise them as best as possible to become important elements of the profession.
The current situation is contradictory since the unemployment rate is increasing while there are still a lot of job vacancies. One of the reasons is that shortage occupations often have a bad image: they therefore do not always attract the potential workers they need.
