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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53 - Postal and courier activities
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 May 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
Bpost, the Belgian national postal services has announced it will hire and train 500 employees in the near future. The company is mainly looking for 'typical' post jobs that are directly involved in mail distribution. The company is working together with the Flemish Unemployment Services (VDAB) in recruiting and delivering training courses. In addition to the opportunities of obtaining a permanent job, applicants are provided with options to acquire a driving license or a secondary school degree. In this way, the company and VDAB hope to increase the career opportunities especially for those who are vulnerable in labour market.
About 100 candidates have already started their trainings, and another 300 new candidates are expected to start their training programme in September.
Eurofound (2021), Bpost, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 104857, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104857.
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