Working

Are you looking for a job in Flanders? You may find one in the vast job offer database of the Vlaamse Dienst voor Arbeidsbemiddeling en Beroepsopleiding or VDAB (Flemish Service for Employment and Vocational Training). VDAB is also your partner in jobcoaching and job application skills training.

Looking for a job
Are you looking for a job? If you are allowed to live and work in Belgium, you can contact the public employment service of your region to help you find a job....
Work permit
In principle, foreign workers who want to pursue salaried employment in Belgium, must apply for a work permit. However, this does not apply to nationals of the Member States of the European Economic Area or Swiss nationals....
European blue card for highly-qualified foreigners
The European blue card is a work permit as well as a residence permit for highly-qualified ‘third-country nationals’ willing to stay and work in an EU Member State. Third-country nationals are citizens who are not nationals of an EU Member State or of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland. By means of the European blue card, the EU wants facilitate attracting highly-qualified ‘third-country nationals’....
Professional card for foreigners
If you want to start a self-employed activity in Belgium as a foreign national, you must hold a professional card. The professional card is the document authorising you to exercise a self-employed activity. Certain categories of foreigners are exempted from the obligation to hold a professional card.
Employment permit
If you are an employer and you want to hire a foreign worker on Belgian territory, you have to obtain an employment permit in advance as a general principle. Your foreign worker, for their part, must hold a work permit B. This does not apply to nationals of the Member State of the European Economic Area or Swiss nationals: they do not need any employment permit nor any work permit. ...
Recognition and equivalence of a foreign diploma or certificate in Flanders
Do you want to work or study in Flanders, but do you have a foreign diploma or certificate? Please note that you might have to get your diploma or certificate recognised or declared equivalent....
Unemployment benefits
If you lose your job, you may be entitled to unemployment benefits. These are benefits you receive if you worked for a certain amount of time as an employee.
Individual vocational training programme (IBO) for job seekers
The individual vocational training programme (Individuele BeroepsOpleiding or IBO) is a training measure making hiring of job seekers more attractive for employers. Job seekers lacking experience or skills can work for an employer by means of an IBO contract. This means they will get an on-the-job vocational training of 1 to 6 months....
Recognition of a work disability by the VDAB
A work disability is a mental, psychological, physical or sensory condition. Those who have a work disability often have difficulties finding a job or doing their job. Examples of work disabilities are autism, hearing impairment, back pain, vocal cord paralysis, myopathy, chronic fatigue syndrome…...
Service vouchers
The service voucher is a means of payment, subsidised by the regional authorities, which allows a private user to pay an employee of a recognised company advantageously for household work....

Looking for a job

Work permit

European blue card for highly-qualified foreigners

Professional card for foreigners

Employment permit

Recognition and equivalence of a foreign diploma or certificate in Flanders

Unemployment benefits

Individual vocational training programme (IBO) for job seekers

Recognition of a work disability by the VDAB

Service vouchers