About Us

Welcome to the National Employment Services website!

“Bridging Opportunities for a Sustainable Future”

The Department of Labor Affairs & Social Services manages this website, which is Sint Maarten’s main public employment services website and job portal. Here you'll find information about our services, policies, and more.

Our website is designed to provide a smooth browsing experience that's accessible to all our users. We use international standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to ensure compatibility with modern web browsers, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software's Opera browser, and Yandex YaBrowser. For the best experience, we recommend upgrading your browser to the latest version and downloading Adobe Reader (or any other PDF viewer) to view or download documents and publications in PDF format.

Our website is designed to be responsive and user-friendly across all devices, including monitors, tablets, and smartphones. Whether you're looking for employment or seeking candidates, you'll find a rich user experience.

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The National Employment Services Center (NESC) is responsible for facilitating employment through this website and providing employability enhancement services to both job seekers and employers in alignment with the standards of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

In 2017, the Department of Labor Affairs & Social Services organized a workshop in collaboration with the ILO to strengthen the capacity of the National Employment Bureau in career guidance and counseling, skills need anticipation, matching and performance management, monitoring and evaluation. This workshop led to the birth of the NESC.

Our vision is to "to provide a labor market ecosystem that empowers individuals and businesses to achieve their recruitment, employment and career development goals through enhanced services." To achieve our vision, we offer a range of services, including an independent and free job portal, employability enhancement programs achieved through public-private partnerships, labor market information services that satisfy client and customer needs, and efficient and effective immaterial and material assistance in collaboration with Social Services.

Our values are Trust, Respect, Integrity, Commitment, Professionalism, and Excellence. We are committed to providing solutions for our clients and continuously educating ourselves to prepare for the challenges ahead.

Our responsibilities include effectively uniting those seeking work with those seeking workers through technology and innovation, prioritizing those who are furthest removed from the labor market through enhancement opportunities, collaborating with stakeholders and commissioning workforce training programs to quickly and efficiently get job seekers into work, actively collecting and sharing labor market information, assisting authorities and others engaged in monitoring and evaluating the labor market, having an overall national responsibility for vulnerable job seekers within labor market policy development.

Our client objectives include enhancing employability by providing effective training enhancement services and other related services internally and externally, creating a database of certified and skilled potential employees in line with the ISCO-08 occupational skill levels, offering immaterial and material aid in the event employment is not possible, and providing labor market information services in line with regional and ILO standards.

Our customer objectives include promoting participation and cooperation with the business community in the form of partnerships and work training opportunities, facilitating job matching resources for the promotion of employment opportunities, sourcing partnerships for cost-sharing of joint ventures, and providing labor market information services in line with regional and ILO standards.

For more detailed information about our website, including our privacy policy, information collected by the department or third parties, links to third-party websites, and copyright issues, please see our Terms and Policies page.