Glossary about
Recruitment

The Belgian mechanism that lifts salaries in line with the health index, without anyone negotiating.

Your employer's attempt to keep you after you resign, and why the number is rarely the reason you looked.

The most valuable single item in many Belgian packages, and the three-pillar budget you can take instead.

A temporary assignment set up from the start with the stated intention of converting into a permanent contract.

What a self-employed consultant invoices per working day, and everything that rate has to cover.

An employer-funded annual benefit spendable only on products and services from an official ecological list.

Everything an employer grants beyond what law or sector agreement requires, and why Belgium leans on it.

A third party that becomes the legal employer of a worker in a country where the client has no entity.

A cafeteria plan that lets you convert part of an existing budget into a chosen selection of benefits.

An employment contract with an agreed end date or defined task, and strict Belgian rules on how often it can be renewed.

Gross is what the contract states, net is what lands in your account, and Belgium puts a lot in between.

The two Belgian holiday payments, how each is calculated, and what happens when you change employer.

The briefing at the start of a search, where the requirement is defined and most searches quietly fail.

Temporary agency work, where a licensed agency employs you and the user company directs the work.

The published version of a role, distinct from the internal profile, and shaped by two Belgian legal constraints.

The sector body that negotiates the agreements setting your minimum pay, indexation and year-end premium.

An electronic benefit granted per day actually worked, funded jointly by employer and employee.

A clause restricting similar work after you leave, subject to Belgian conditions most clauses fail to meet.

The time an employment contract keeps running after one side ends it, calculated in Belgium from seniority.

The trial clause Belgium abolished for most contracts, and the short early notice that replaced it.

A provider becomes the administrative employer of a worker the client found itself, a structure Belgian law limits.

The open-ended Belgian employment contract: no end date, and a notice period that grows with seniority.

The small set of genuinely viable candidates presented to the hiring manager, with a recommendation attached.

The filter step that assesses applications against a requirement before anyone invests interview time.

Identifying and approaching people who are not applying, rather than processing those who are.

The minimum pay grid set by your joint committee, based on function classification rather than job title.

The combined work and residence authorisation for non-EU workers staying in Belgium more than ninety days.

A consultancy assigns its own employee to work at a client, and stays the employer throughout.

A company that employs you and invoices your client, so you can take freelance assignments without your own company.

The two Belgian routes for paying a bonus outside ordinary salary, and why they are not interchangeable.