In Flanders there are several bottleneck occupations. VDAB will focus internationally on the most urgent shortages. Most of these shortages are to be found in following professional clusters:
- Health care: Vdab focuses also on solving shortages on the labour market in the care sector (nurses, doctors, nursing assistants and dentists).
In the coming years there will be a significant increase of jobs, due to the retirement of nursing staff and the creation of new care centres - IT and Engineering, most commonly asked:
- Software engineers (embedded)
- Electronical engineers
- Micro electronics
- IT analyst developer (JAVA, .net, c++, C#)
- Project managers IT and/or Communication
- Mechanical engineers
- Automation engineers
- Technical designers