The CLECE Employment Route has taken place in different parts of the peninsula with the aim of recruiting professionals, giving priority to people from vulnerable groups.
Through the so-called "Employment Route", CLECE has promoted a pioneering initiative:the start-up of a bus conditioned as a mobile office with the aim of bringing jobs to the unemployed in depopulated Spain. During the months of March to June the bus has been in Jaén, Cádiz, Málaga, Galicia and finally in Madrid. In the successive stops that it was making, the selection technicians interviewed the different candidates, focusing on vulnerable groups: victims of gender-based violence, people with disabilities and people at risk of social exclusion, who are often those who have Greater difficulty getting around or finding work. The main objective of this initiative has been to cover thousands of jobs in different parts of the peninsula.
The difficulty of people who live in rural areas to find a job means that more and more professionals leave their villages to move to the city. "In Galicia, the combinations of public transport are not the best, and many people cannot afford the expense of their own car, which translates into a limitation when it comes to finding employment for some people," explains Sara Costa, a of CLECE's selection techniques, who adds that "people were really grateful for giving them the opportunity to interview them and listen to them, since they see us nearby".
In fact, many of the hirings were made on the spot, so some candidates found employment after finishing the interview. “We saw profiles that fit us in the needs that we had to cover. For them it was an immense joy, since they came out of the interview with work”, assures the selection technician.
“This initiative helps to provide employment, something essential at the moment in which we find ourselves. An event of this capacity also conveys an image of the company that reflects what we really are, since it shows that we give opportunities to everyone and that we have positions to fill”, Costa qualifies.
The background behind each hiring
For people like Saúl Fernández, one of those hired on the Employment Route, the opportunity to work at CLECE also represents a radical change in his life. “I can breathe easy knowing that I have my permanent job, without having to worry about the end of the contract,” says Fernández, who before attending the event was receiving unemployment benefits.
“They are wonderful, I have no words for them. I thank the whole team, which is like a big family, for giving me the opportunity to work with them”, says Saúl Fernández, at the same time that he encourages all the unemployed to sign up for the next editions of the event.
Different stops in Spain
The first route took place in Jaén (Ruta Jaén Emplea), where the company intended to hire more than 300 people. Later, the route continued through Cádiz (Ruta Cádiz Emplea) with the aim of covering more than 200 jobs.
Similarly, the office bus passed through Galicia (where they wanted to hire more than 200 people) and Malaga (to hire more than 500 people). At all its stops, CLECE offered a wide variety of positions such as nurses, geriatricians, security guards or gardeners.
As a complementary action, CLECE has organized in June, in Madrid, two virtual days of interviews aimed at the whole of Spain with the intention of finding candidates from vulnerable groups (victims of gender-based violence, people with disabilities and people at risk of social exclusion ), to fill up to
2,800 jobs. At the same time, the Employment Route bus also stopped in the capital during those days and interviews were held on it to cover more than 150 jobs.
Digital divide and disadvantaged groups
Although digitization has brought great benefits to our lives and the majority of the young population knows how to surf the Internet, the truth is that, as CLECE states, many people belonging to disadvantaged groups, for different reasons, have not had access to digitization and They do not know how to use a computer or smartphone when registering on different employment platforms or job offers, or they do not have the necessary technological tools.
And it is that, in some cases, something as simple as attaching the CV in an email or accessing a company's website through the Internet can be, in some cases, a real difficulty for those people who do not have digital knowledge. CLECE wanted to offer a job opportunity to these people because it considers that it constitutes one of the best forms of social inclusion, especially for disadvantaged groups. "We do our best to find a place for everyone," concluded Costa.
