1. The concept of the transitional labour market and career service
VDAB
The concept of the transitional labour market and career service

2. Vision Career Service 1 Mission VDAB
2 Expected evolutions of labour market and society
3 Concept of the transitional labour market
4 Vision career policy
5 Vision VDAB career service

3. 1 Mission VDAB The management agreement 2005-2009 contains
the short-term objectives of the VDAB which
involve:
Matching of demand and supply on the labour market
Approach: guiding jobseekers and training them towards jobs that are in demand on the labour market

4. 2 Expected evolutions of labour market and society
Internationalization
Individualization
Career differentiation
Informatization
Intensification of knowledge
Increasing diversity
Greying
Today’s children are tomorrow’s clients
Increasing attention for sustainability

5. 3 Concept of the transitional labour market
The activation approach:
Focus one-sidedly on work
Less accentuated:
Quality of labour
Labour organization
Lifelong learning
Competency management
Non-formal labour
Relationship between labour and non-labour

6. 3 Concept of the transitional labour market
Transitions outside the labour market not merely periods of non-labour
Key concepts: participation and variation, wich form a crossroad where four roads meet:
- More participation
- More variation
- More variation in participation
- More participation in variation
-> Diagramme 1: macro-level labour market
-> Diagramme 2: micro-level transitional career

7. Diagramme 1: Macro-level labour market
Education
LLL-investing in
Human Capital
Work
Optimal use /
competency management
Pension/Retirement
Work longer but differently
Unemployment
Employability

8. Diagramme 2: Micro-level transitional career
Social communicative
and normative cultural
competencies
family
Learning competencies
education
Individual person
Citizenship
competencies
society

9. 4 Vision career policy
In the transitional labour market: an explicit career policy:
Facilitate the citizen and support him actively where necessary
in his or her transitions and career choices
Effects career policy on the labour market:
Increasing activity degree
Higher labour market mobility
More qualitative job turnover
Increasing employability
Higher participation of ‘opportunity’ groups

10. 5 Vision VDAB Career Service
The Flemish Government: the development of a universal career service with:
ethical principles and
a strong, public director’s role with public-private cooperation
Mission statement:
As career director:
creating the conditions for all citizens in Flandres that allow them to fully use their competencies on the labour market and in the society
As service provider:
assisting citizens at the development of their career in complementariness with the services provided by other actors

11. 5 Vision VDAB Career Service
Directorship
= ‘the creation of possibilities for the citizen and the companies to be able to use competencies on the labour market’
Result areas:
Operational strategy
Wide basis
Transparently integrated offer
A set of tools
Guaranteed and equal universal service and first-line support
Success factor: an open-mindedness of each collaborator

12. 5 Vision VDAB Career Service
Actor
= the support of citizens and companies at the realizations of transitions ánd
the reinforcement of competencies of citizens in view of current and future transitions
Result areas:
Markt-conform offer of specialized services
Markt-conform offer of specialized vocational screening
Meet and fill existing sector lacks
An offer where necessary to stimulate literacy skills
Support of other actors
Coaching attitude with focus on the self-directive power of every citizen

13. 5 Vision VDAB Career Service
Acto
Success factors:
Alert, manoeuvrable actor which can smoothly respond to the labour market movements
Innovative actor which is prepared to leave ‘old’ habits and structures when a new service requires so
Network organization which is capable of creating a maximal and comprehensive offer for the citizens in cooperation with market players

14. Questions