Our service is completely free of charge for candidates.

We treat each application individually and, depending on your language combination, the type of job you are targeting and the vacancies we are handling, we may consider you even if your command of English is weaker. In general, however, you need to be comfortable in English at a professional level. Bear in mind that all the contacts which you will have with us will be in English and that most of our clients will interview you in English. They may even test your English themselves.

All candidates, without exception, are required to take the necessary tests and have an interview in order to establish an active file with us. This is all part of the service we provide and, therefore, we cannot exempt anyone from the procedure, whatever their level or experience. We strive to make the testing session as comfortable as possible - our aim is not to pass or fail you, but to assess your skills in order to consider you for the most suitable jobs.

Many of our candidates have already visited us before, sometimes several years ago, and we are always happy to see familiar faces again.

If you have established an initial file more than a year ago, you will be invited to come back to our office for a brief update. If any of your skills have improved since the first visit, it is useful and interesting to test these again, as any improvements can considerably broaden the range of jobs for which you can be considered. You will also have a short discussion with your consultant to update the report with your latest professional experience.

If your initial file was established only a few months ago, you can choose between a brief update at our office or a telephone update with your consultant. If your skills have not changed in the meantime you can also update your file by telephone, although a face-to-face contact is generally recommended.

We are specialised in permanent contracts (contrats à durée indéterminée/vaste contracten). Under Belgian law, these contracts include a trial period (generally six months), after which the contract becomes permanent.

Rainbow Careers is not a temporary (interim) agency. Unlike interim agencies, Rainbow does not handle temporary assignments and does not take candidates on its payroll.

We are specialised in permanent contracts (contrats à durée indéterminée/vaste contracten). We have experience, however, recruiting support staff for short-term contracts (contrats à durée déterminée/contracten van bepaalde duur), generally to cover maternity or sick leaves or in view of a permanent contract.

These contracts cover a minimum period of three months.
The exceptional short-term nature of a contract is always clearly indicated in the job offers on our website, in order to differentiate it from our regular permanent offers.

Most of our jobs are full-time. We do, however, occasionally handle vacancies with reduced schedules (from 1/2 to 4/5).

If you are only interested in a reduced schedule, we suggest that you check the job offers on our website regularly and contact us for an appointment when you see a vacancy corresponding to the timetable you are seeking.

We are happy to assist candidates in possession of a work permit A or C. Candidates in possession of a work permit B (linked to a specific company) can be treated on a case by case basis, but generally cannot benefit from our assistance as our clients are seeking candidates who are immediately eligible to work in Belgium.

Regretfully, we are not equipped to help candidates in securing a work permit and cannot assist candidates who are not yet in possession of a necessary work permit.

For more information, please refer to:

http://www.bruxelles.irisnet.be/en/citoyens/home/travailer_comme_
ressortissant_etranger/permis_de_travail.shtml

http://vdab.be/english/permits.shtml

http://www.justlanded.com/english/Belgium/Belgium-Guide/Visas-Permits/Work-permits

http://www.belgium.be/en/work/coming_to_work_in_belgium/work_permit/

It is not easy to help candidates who are not yet residing in Belgium. On a practical level, you would have to schedule at least one visit to Belgium, in order to establish a file with us. Our clients may be wary of meeting candidates who are not yet living in Belgium, giving the preference to candidates who are already residents and are immediately available. If your profile is of interest, we would encourage you to contact us when you are settled in Belgium.

We are principally focused on the greater Brussels area. However, we also recruit for other cities in Belgium. Candidates only interested in specific geographical areas, outside Brussels, should check our website and contact us when they see a vacancy in their area of interest.

We are essentially specialised in vacancies in Belgium, more particularly the Brussels area. We have, however, handled assignments for companies and organisations based abroad and are open to recruiting staff for other countries. This is, however, an exceptional situation and we are, therefore, not the partner of choice for candidates only interested in work outside Belgium.

Rainbow Careers has one office based in Brussels and does not have any subsidiaries or sister companies elsewhere in Belgium or abroad.

Rainbow Careers is open from 9:00 to 17:30, Monday to Friday, and is closed on weekends.

In order to have enough time for the tests and the interview, appointments either take place in the morning at 9:00 or in the afternoon at 14:00. Unfortunately, we cannot receive candidates after working hours.

For candidates who cannot take any, or limited, time off from work, the testing session and interview can be split over a number of days or over a number of lunch times. It is more productive, however, to complete the whole session in one morning or afternoon.

Far from it! We have a broad range of nationalities in our active files and welcome any nationality provided English is excellent and there are no work permit issues (see above). Most of our candidates are French or Dutch mother tongue, with a number of other nationalities in between (such as German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, etc.).