Bruxelles Formation, the French-speaking public service in charge of vocational training in the Brussels-Capital Region, will offer around 23,000 places this year, Brussels Employment Minister Bernard Clerfayt said in a press release on Monday.
17,000 of these spots will be in vocational training courses, including 4,300 for jobs that are actively recruiting, the Minister said.
The Minister explained that training courses increase the chances of finding a job. Two years after starting a training course, 71% of job seekers find employment, compared to 54% without training.
"We are a region with 835,000 jobs, 60% of which require a high level of qualification. To enable the people of Brussels to get a job, they need training. We need to train more and train better!" Clerfayt stressed.
From September, two measures will become compulsory for job seekers in Brussels: the skills assessment (to check that skills match the needs of the labour market) and the pathway to employment (work placements and/or training).
These measures should help to increase the number of job seekers in the Brussels-Capital Region. In the capital, 61% of job seekers are long-term unemployed and 71.4% have no more than a secondary school diploma.
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The training courses offered by Bruxelles Formation cover a breadth of fields, from web development to construction and food preparation.
Bruxelles Formation courses are free of charge and are available to those seeking employment or wanting to pursue training outside of their working hours, or at the request of their employer.
