Por Talento - Inserta / ONCE

ONCE Foundation has an entity called Inserta, an expert agency in labour mediation services for persons with disabilities. Inserta developed Portalento.es, a platform co-financed by ONCE and the European Social Fund that coordinates job offers from over 4,000 collaborating companies and assists over 190,000 jobseekers registered in their database. PorTalento supports companies to incorporate corporate social responsibility-disability policies transversally by giving them the possibility to manage their job offers in real time and access the information of all candidates meeting the requested profiles, helping them to find suitable candidates. Equipped with the latest technological innovations, the employment platform is at the forefront of labour mediation and allows their users to directly interact with Inserta’s experts in order to be fully updated on the wide training offer and job opportunities available. Portalento.es is an open fully inclusive meeting place for jobseekers with a disability, companies offering jobs, public administrations or interested persons; open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Between 2016 and 2021, Inserta provided support to over 175,000 job seekers, processed over 54,000 job offers for persons with disabilities, and about 76,000 students with a disability were trained. The training and work mediation activity are free for beneficiaries thanks to the financing by the ONCE Foundation and the European Social Fund.

The ONCE Foundation also has the Inserta Program, created specifically to support large companies. The ONCE Foundation has signed collaboration agreements with many SMEs and about 50 large national and multinational companies. The agreements include an action plan to promote employment of persons with disabilities within these companies, as well as the implementation of a series of measures as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies to improve living conditions of persons with disabilities[v]. To do so, The ONCE Foundation offers awareness and training initiatives, seminars, legislative advice, as well as information about financial support available through a bonuses and grants calculator. The companies involved include Ikea, McDonald’s, Ford, KPMG, Barclays and Repsol.

“A thousand reasons” campaign
Together with the new Portalento.es, the ONCE Foundation launched the campaign “A thousand reasons” with a double objective: on the one hand, to inform and encourage people with disabilities, including entrepreneurs, to use the website services such as guidance, training and support to increase their options to get a quality job, and on the other, to try to raise awareness of employers and business owners.

As the campaign states: “for many people with disabilities the day couldn’t start any better”, because every day more persons with a disability find a job thanks to the ONCE Foundation through Portalento.es. The campaign also consists of a free mobile application (‘Despertador Por Mil Razones’- ‘A Thousand Reasons Alarm Clock’, available on the Apple Store and Google Play) so that users can post morning tweets saying one of the ‘thousands of reasons’ why getting up every morning is so good, using the hashtag #razonesparalevantarse (‘reasons to get up’).

To watch the campaign online, see this  link.