By Wingfeet
Over the last couple of years, each weekend I have registering how many vacancies websites claim to have. This post shows some of the observations one may draw from the plots.
Data
Data is from general and more specialized websites. The first observations started in 2010. Since that time there were a number of changes. In general, the most useful sites are uitzendbureau.nl, nuwerk.nl nationalevacaturebank.nl, indeed.nl and jobbird.nl. These all cover the whole market.
Uitzendbureau (employment agency) will cater mostly for the short term solutions. As an employer, wants an employee quickly, without much hassle, which can let go just as easy, an uitzendbureau is the port of call. The website covers many of these agencies, from what I have seen, I can confirm the bigger agencies. This makes the number of vacancies they have a marker from the general work market. The other three cover more the jobs at employers themselves. I seem to remember that nationalevacaturebank (national vacancies bank) did a lot of advertisement at the time. Nuwerk.nl is a subsite of nu.nl, a popular news site in the Netherlands. The others I added later to the collection.
In addition, there is VK banen, Intermediair and Stepstone. VK banen (Volkskrant) and Intermediair are the traditional sites for higher educated employees. Back in the time when internet was not a factor of importance, Intermediair came for free for high educated people starting just before graduation and ending at age 40 or 45. Thus traditionally it was one of the best places for vacancies. Volkskrant had somewhat lesser amount of vacancies, and many in education. At some point within the data they merged their vacancy activity. Stepstone is an international entity, which tries to get hold in the Dutch market.
Finally, BCFJobs is a website which caters Bio (life sciences), Chemistry and Food jobs. It …read more
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