Caritas. Platform for unemployed persons over 45 years … – iOnline

platform Caritas to find work for the unemployed over 45 years “fell short” of expected, due to poor adhesion of the companies and the strong demand of the people, told Lusa the coordinator.

The “In Spira – Network competence Caritas” platform is a social network that was created six months ago to facilitate information sharing and communication between businesses and the unemployed over 45 years.

Taking stock of six months from the platform, the project coordinator, Maria do Rosario Carneiro, said there was “enormous support from people seeking work” in the first three months but has now slowed .

As an explanation for this slowdown, Maria do Rosario Carneiro points “accession not as representative by the companies offering jobs.”

Currently, there are 2,273 people registered on the network, “more varied ages, backgrounds, career profiles and experiences”, and 34 companies.

So far it has met four jobs, but may have been more, since the companies do not report when they hire someone Caritas, said the official.

Maria do Rosario Carneiro attributes the poor adherence of companies to “multiple factors”, including the lack of platform and “less willingness to hire older people.”

To overcome the resistance of firms to hire older people, Caritas has made several interventions to “clarify the profile of a worker with more than 45 years.”

To this, “socorremo us a very extensive bibliography that already exists in this area internationally, including in Australia, which pioneered the perception that there is the need for developing countries (…) of hire these older workers. “

To Rosario Carneiro, it is necessary that the company considers that the” very old perspective “what was that people like more than 45 years are” a less literate population, less versatile, less flexible, less adaptable to new work stations to and new challenges “does not exist” there are tens of years. “

On the other hand,” is also not recognize the drastic reduction in the demographic composition the population in general, and specifically the Portuguese. “