Volunteer and Stages - Becoming a Volunteer is a good way to make a fresh number of contacts, show your professionalism and enhance your CV.
NGOs and industry associations tend to fill in un-advertised Brussels positions, sometime the institutions also have these un-advertised positions for temporary agents, thus it never hurts to send in your CV directly to one of the institutions.
Candidate for un-advertised jobs also have the advantage of competing with a limited number of other candidates.
Some points to remember when sending your CV around organizations in Brussels are :
Tune your CV to the company your sending it to. Read the material on their website, this could be very useful. Finding out about a project that you covered in your dissertation would be a big plus.
The web site, sometimes also has the details of the recruitment manager, that extra effort of addressing them by their proper surname could give you some extra points over the others
Be clear in the kind of job you are looking for contract, temporary agent, volunteer
