The number of people with an occupational disability, who are working, is gradually increasing. The TENDER project anticipates for more opportunities for people with an occupational disability on the labour market. It offers a solution for the increasing shortages in various sectors (including education and care). Intermediaries need better matching options on the basis of more specific parameters. Parameters that deal better with the potential and possibilities of people with an occupational disability. The project delivers: • The workable parameters needed to achieve a match. In contrast to the already existing parameters such as hard & soft skills, experience and transversal skills, these parameters are mainly based on environmental flexibility (to what extent you can function in a specific environment); • Have insight in the way how the question should be formulated, that leads to the employment of a job seeker with a work disability. Not all jobs are directly suitable for the job-seeker with an occupational disability. Sometimes part-time work is better or the requirements imposed on the competences and environmental flexibility are not appropriate. The project has an impact on jobseekers with a work disability, companies and organizations with vacancies and. The project also has an impact on the system of matching supply and demand in the labour market as a whole and thus a mindset change. In addition, vacancies are filled by people who still have a distance to the labour market. The TENDER project promotes the individual match between regular vacancies and job seekers with a disability via Intermediaries. The priorities are inclusion and professionalization for that specific target group. The project delivers: 1) A web application to make the target group visible with a person profile. Such a layout of the web application that intermediaries can match between a job profile and a person profile. 2) A method by which intermediaries support employers in drawing up a vacancy profile that matches the target group. 3) A feasability study concerning the continuation of the TENDER Matchings Web Applicatie after the project. Based on 5 participating countries in which each country reaches 15 intermediaries with the masterclass program: we aim to ensure that each involved intermediary makes 5 successful matches through the use of the instruments. The aim is thus to get a total of 250 people at a distance from the labour market in the countries in question through the instruments. The TENDER Web App is public and available for free to well-known mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. The tool is set up in such a way that functionality and content remain up-to-date for the coming years. The actual matching takes place by applying algorithms developed in the app. The App is filled with personal data in accordance with European privacy legislation. The manual, the App and the training courses are offered by the consortium to, among others, professional associations and public and private intermediaries in the field of reintegration. We achieve impact by offering lectures and seminars. In combination with marketing activities, such as publishing articles on social media and sites of related professional associations and interest groups.
The project wanted to achieve the following: • The workable parameters needed to reach an agreement. Unlike the already existing parameters such as hard and soft skills, experience and transversal skills, these parameters are mainly based on flexibility of the environment (to what extent you can function in a specific environment); • To have an insight into the way in which the question must be formulated, which led to the employment of a job seeker with a functional disability. Not all jobs are immediately suitable for job seekers with a work disability. Sometimes part-time work is better or the requirements for competences and environmental flexibility are not suitable. All of this has resulted in a new mindset, perspective and methodology that can be used by all players in the labor market. From intermediaries to employers, job seekers, but also other stakeholders. TENDER as a project has shown that it is possible to look beyond someone's so-called shortcomings, but also to select such a person for our demanding job market at the moment.
The number of people with an occupational disability, who have work, is increasing slightly. The TENDER project expected more opportunities for people with a work disability in the labor market. Therefor it offered a solution for the increasing shortages in various sectors (such as in education and healthcare). Next to that we applied for this project because intermediaries needed better matching options based on more specific parameters. Parameters that better deal with the potential and possibilities of people with a work disability. These were all integrated in a special TENDER WEB APP tool, that is made in this project. We aimed for a more inclusive labor market for job seekers who have a distance to the labor market due to an occupational disability. Therefore, there was a need for better tools to be able to match better between supply and demand and consequently we applied for this project to make a better sustainable and qualitative match possible.