Work expert sounds the alarm: “42% of the unemployed have been looking for a job for more than a year, although many vacancies require no experience or diploma” | My Guide: Money

Apart from the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, according to Eurostat, there are no countries where as many jobs are or remain open as in Belgium. If we divide into the regions, Flanders even has more vacancies than any European country. “We want to recruit people, but we can’t find one,” employers say en masse. Work expert Stijn Baert delved into the numbers and put forward a solution.