A new job search website for people with intellectual disabilities

FEAPS is a member of Inclusion Europe FEAPS works to make things better for people with intellectual disabilities in Spain. They created a website to help people with intellectual disabilities find a job. Click here to access the website The website is in Spanish

FEAPS Madrid, adherent of inclusion Europe’s member FEAPS, has launched a new platform to help people with intellectual disabilities integrate the labour market.  The project is called Empleados2.0 and it consists of a pilot website easily accessible by the public targeted.

The project arises after several studies and questionnaires concluded that in the wide dome of people with disabilities, people with intellectual disabilities are the one having a harder time entering the job market.

Regular websites are not organised keeping the trajectory of a person with intellectual disabilities in mind. They do not take into consideration possible employment slot specific to these citizens.  Moreover these website are too complex to navigate and have no consideration of the needs of people with intellectual disabilities.  The studies have proven that even specific portals for people with disabilities in general lack the necessary adaptations to make them useful for this task.

Keeping these results in mind, FEAPS Madrid create the new website Empleados2.0. This new website is more accessible and easy to use. It is client oriented and has been kept simple not just for those looking for a job, but also, for employers.

Moreover, those employers that have subscribed to the webpage in the production phase are unanimous in their impression that it is a clear and simple process. For those looking to  include people with intellectual disabilities into their workforce, this will be an important tool

Furthermore, a person with intellectual disabilities will find the job search, less frustrating and his studies, experience and capabilities better contextualised and appreciated.