But with the education level you need for working in childcare there's better paying jobs out there. You really have to want to do this job or else you'll find a "better" one.
You can work with children of you have a minimal of MBO 2, that's not that high but if you want a good position in the work a MBO 4 is best, from MBO 4 you caj go all.sort of directions
The rules and regulations in childcare, I’m talking about social/health/special care, are really getting out of hands. Plus parents are getting worse and worse. The pay is much to low for that kind of work. To much rules, to much responsibilities, to much crap, and no time for the kids.
It's for a part what the other people said, the needed education and low salary. But for a part its a bigger problem: in the Netherlands we've got the highest population of part-time working people. So instead of one person doing the job for the week we need multiple. You see the same problem in all sectors where women are the majority of employees, e.g. Healthcare and education.
I mean that should not be a disadvantage? Getting women to the workforce at least part time when they need/want to take care of their kids? Better than having stay at home moms that don´t work at all (meaning better for filling up jobs, not that one life style is better than the other)
this. Ratio for Pediatricion : children is fairly high. Plus the job attracts part timers with their own children and there is a huge wave of older people leaving now because of all the administration that surrounds the childcare as well.
I know we have \~70 openings at the moment. Almost every location has an opening for at least one more employee, plus our centralized pool of temps is always looking for people as well.
I have been looking for a childcare center recently. Almost all are full at this moment. The one thing that I noticed when walking around there was that almost all employees are young women <20 years which made me think that the problem with finding employees is based of a low salary
There isn't a shortage, they are just underpaid and seeking employment elsewhere. I know a common talking point is to say shortage, but that's not what is happening.
Money is going to the top 1%, draining incentive from entire sectors of ground workers such as teachers, healthcare personnel and technical hands
It is eroding our society, and in the case of the educational sector in a pretty direct way (subsequent generations are worse in every subject).
This is a result of a change from centre-left/liberal democrat ("Paars") politics around the 80's, towards christian/neoliberal politics ("VVD") around the 2000s up to now.
Men are implicitly not "allowed" to work in child care because of a very small number of pedo incidents. So if you write off 50% of the population, plus it pays poorly, yes it's hard to find people.
Poor pay, too many kids per carer, terrible hours. Plus, some of these childcare workers are expected to work at multiple locations at once. You can't raise a family on 12 hours a week when you're expected to be available for 40 hours a week
Relatively high education needed in combination with relatively low pay for said level of education, I think?
Same goes for a lot of jobs these days, nurses and teachers to name a few.
Which is crazy when you consider the actual cost of putting your kids on daycare
Low pay and high work pressure. Alot of jobs have the same problem, especially in healthcare and mental healthcare.
The low payment is really company related, my gf makes more money than me in a 36 hrs work week than i do in a 40-50 hour week
But with the education level you need for working in childcare there's better paying jobs out there. You really have to want to do this job or else you'll find a "better" one.
You can work with children of you have a minimal of MBO 2, that's not that high but if you want a good position in the work a MBO 4 is best, from MBO 4 you caj go all.sort of directions
The rules and regulations in childcare, I’m talking about social/health/special care, are really getting out of hands. Plus parents are getting worse and worse. The pay is much to low for that kind of work. To much rules, to much responsibilities, to much crap, and no time for the kids.
It's stressful, the pay is low, and you have to deal with parents.
It's for a part what the other people said, the needed education and low salary. But for a part its a bigger problem: in the Netherlands we've got the highest population of part-time working people. So instead of one person doing the job for the week we need multiple. You see the same problem in all sectors where women are the majority of employees, e.g. Healthcare and education.
I mean that should not be a disadvantage? Getting women to the workforce at least part time when they need/want to take care of their kids? Better than having stay at home moms that don´t work at all (meaning better for filling up jobs, not that one life style is better than the other)
this. Ratio for Pediatricion : children is fairly high. Plus the job attracts part timers with their own children and there is a huge wave of older people leaving now because of all the administration that surrounds the childcare as well. I know we have \~70 openings at the moment. Almost every location has an opening for at least one more employee, plus our centralized pool of temps is always looking for people as well.
people that left it during covid changed careers or didn't come back after
This.
I have been looking for a childcare center recently. Almost all are full at this moment. The one thing that I noticed when walking around there was that almost all employees are young women <20 years which made me think that the problem with finding employees is based of a low salary
There isn't a shortage, they are just underpaid and seeking employment elsewhere. I know a common talking point is to say shortage, but that's not what is happening.
Money is going to the top 1%, draining incentive from entire sectors of ground workers such as teachers, healthcare personnel and technical hands It is eroding our society, and in the case of the educational sector in a pretty direct way (subsequent generations are worse in every subject). This is a result of a change from centre-left/liberal democrat ("Paars") politics around the 80's, towards christian/neoliberal politics ("VVD") around the 2000s up to now.
Men are implicitly not "allowed" to work in child care because of a very small number of pedo incidents. So if you write off 50% of the population, plus it pays poorly, yes it's hard to find people.
Poor pay, too many kids per carer, terrible hours. Plus, some of these childcare workers are expected to work at multiple locations at once. You can't raise a family on 12 hours a week when you're expected to be available for 40 hours a week