Frequently asked questions

On the platform, you will find learning paths and training for specific IT professions or professions where IT skills are important. These professions are continuously expanding. Through a career development advice, you can gain better insight into professions that suit you and the courses you can follow for them (possibly for free). There are also training programs linked to a job. If you successfully complete the selection process, you can follow a training program that leads to employment.

Tailored to in-demand professions, we offer learning paths through LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn, and other partner providers, focusing on different types of skills. Additionally, there is a much broader range of training available, often subsidized, making it free of charge in our training offering.

LinkedIn Learning also provides access to 4 learning paths aimed at training foundational skills:

• Job searching
• Critical soft skills
• Digital transformation
• Job interviews

If you’re interested in technical skills and certifications for Microsoft technologies, you can access the Microsoft Learn environment for free. There, you’ll get familiar with various Microsoft solutions that will help you prepare for certification.

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that teaches relevant skills for a wide variety of roles and jobs. With a library of over 22,000 training modules delivered by expert instructors, LinkedIn Learning is a widely used learning platform. On Microsoft Learn, you specifically develop skills related to working with Microsoft products and technologies.

The Quickscan is a brief evaluation with two key purposes:

– For you as a candidate: Gain a clear understanding of what the traineeship entails and see if it aligns with your expectations and career goals. Reflect on your ambitions and talents, and determine if this is the right next step in your career.
– For us as an organization: Gain valuable insights into your personality, core competencies, and ambitions. This helps us assess whether you are the perfect fit for the next stages of our traineeship.

Before your Exclusive or Premium subscription expires, you will receive an email from us asking if you’d like to renew it. If you renew an Exclusive subscription, you will need a new voucher. You can request this from your employer, municipality, fund, or benefits agency.

If you choose not to renew, your subscription will be downgraded to a Basic subscription (with limited access). You will have 1 year to upgrade it again to an Exclusive or Premium subscription.

After 1 year, your data will be permanently deleted.

A voucher is a unique code that gives you access to an Exclusive Subscription (at no cost). With this voucher, you can use all the features of the platform to achieve your learning and career goals. A voucher is issued by employers, municipalities, funds, and benefit agencies.

Municipalities, benefit agencies such as the UWV, technology companies, and employers provide you with free vouchers that they have purchased from us.

Register on the platform.
Sign up and log in to the platform.
Select “Redeem Voucher” from the menu or on the voucher page.
Enter your unique voucher code in the input field.
Click “Redeem” to convert your voucher into an Exclusive subscription.

Once your voucher is redeemed, you’ll gain instant, unlimited access to all the features of the platform!

If you are not eligible for an Exclusive subscription, the Premium subscription is a good alternative. It gives you unlimited access to all tests, training offerings, and learning paths. This subscription is not reimbursed by employers, municipalities, funds, or welfare agencies. You can sign up for the Premium subscription on the platform’s homepage and pay immediately.

To celebrate our new nationwide platform, we are offering everyone interested in developing into and within the IT field the opportunity to make unlimited use of all the platform’s facilities. That’s why an introductory offer on our Premium subscription (six months) is available from March 1, 2025 until July 1, 2025!
This is your chance to explore all tests, training, and learning paths (including those via LinkedIn and Microsoft) and earn Microsoft certifications for free.

You can pay for a Premium subscription via iDEAL.

By the time your subscription is about to expire, you will receive an email from us asking if you’d like to renew it.

You don’t need to cancel a six-month subscription yourself. Some time before your Exclusive or Premium subscription expires, you will receive an email asking if you’d like to renew it.

Before your Exclusive or Premium subscription expires, you will receive an email from us asking if you’d like to renew it. If you renew an Exclusive subscription, you will need a new voucher. You can request this from your employer, municipality, fund, or benefits agency.

If you choose not to renew, your subscription will be downgraded to a Basic subscription (with limited access). You will have 1 year to upgrade it again to an Exclusive or Premium subscription.

After 1 year, your data will be permanently deleted.

LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps people discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills. This is done with the guidance of experts who share their knowledge through course videos. With over 16,000 courses and a constant stream of new content, LinkedIn Learning offers high-quality, relevant, and up-to-date training modules.

Based on insights from millions of users, LinkedIn Learning personalizes course recommendations and shows the learning content that is relevant to you. The courses are available in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Mandarin, and Brazilian Portuguese.

LinkedIn Learning is available as a Premium subscription and costs $29.99 USD per month. Through Werk in het Vooruitzicht, you can get free access to certain LinkedIn Learning modules if you register via this link.

No! A LinkedIn account is not required to get started on the platform and take advantage of the available features.

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that teaches relevant skills for a wide variety of roles and jobs. With a library of over 22,000 training modules delivered by expert instructors, LinkedIn Learning is a widely used learning platform. On Microsoft Learn, you specifically develop skills related to working with Microsoft products and technologies.

Microsoft Learn is a free, hands-on training platform that helps people develop in-demand technical skills related to widely used Microsoft products and services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft Dynamics (with over 1,000 modules in more than 30 languages). Microsoft Learn offers learning paths that anyone can follow at their own pace. These short, step-by-step training modules with interactive coding and scripting environments are aligned with 35 Microsoft certifications.

Microsoft Learn is a completely free open training platform available to anyone interested in learning more about Microsoft solutions.

Microsoft Learn offers role-based training. You can find learning paths for Azure developers, solution architects, and administrators, as well as learning paths for Microsoft Power BI, PowerApps, and Dynamics. The learning offerings are continuously expanding.

Microsoft certifications give you a professional edge and serve as proof that you possess skills in demand by the industry. If you pass a Microsoft certification exam, you can add your Microsoft certification to your profile and share it with your professional network.

Yes, you need a Microsoft certification profile (with a Microsoft account) to access the exam. If you don’t have a Microsoft certification profile yet, you will be asked to create one when you schedule the exam.

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that teaches relevant skills for a wide variety of roles and jobs. With a library of over 22,000 training modules delivered by expert instructors, LinkedIn Learning is a widely used learning platform. On Microsoft Learn, you specifically develop skills related to working with Microsoft products and technologies.

A learning path is a series of training and courses in which you acquire knowledge and skills that are important for a specific profession or various professions. A detailed explanation of a learning path can be found through this link.

The learning paths have been selected based on data from the LinkedIn Economic Graph. LinkedIn maps labor market trends such as job openings, the number of vacancies, regional demand, etc. Through collaboration with governments and organizations worldwide, LinkedIn helps to leverage these opportunities. The learning paths therefore focus on professions that are above average in terms of job prospects.

There is no time limit for completing learning paths. You can complete the modules at your own convenience.