REINICIAL Project aim is to transfer best practices about labour insertion for workers and professionals over 45 years old that have lost their job: the “senior” group. There are five participant organizations in the project from four countries of southern Europe: Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. The project takes as starting point what have been learnt in previous experiences that identified difficulties to outplace on the labour market senior professionals over 45 years old. In this sense, REINICIAL seeks to build on a methodological approach grounded on knowledge obtained through previous programs about the problems and needs to be addressed in the process of outplace the group of Senior people. These may be, among others:

• This group of people are new users of intermediary devices. They have had a consolidated labour pathway; they widely come from the middle class and could become part of the so called “new poor” group. Their profile differs from the traditional users of labour insertion devices, which should adapt to the new necessities.
• This kind of users could suffer psychological problems due to their situation. They need to strengthen its resilience capacity, mentored by trained professionals. The insertion itinerary for this public should pay particular focus in psychological care.
• People over 45 are usually in charge of family responsibilities and duties, making it difficult for them to undertake a process of international labour mobility. Employment and relocation technicians cannot easily offer this outlet to seniors, at which young people respond positively.
• In a significant percentage, seniors lack of knowledge about ICT tools that could help them to attach liability occupations, such as Personal branding strategies, use of social networks for job searching, specific portals to profiles with high experience/training, videoCV …

Departing from the experiences transferred, and from the Benchmarking at European level, the project may facilitate the generation of know-how to train the technician body who gives attention to the new group. REINICIAL will lead also to the development of a pilot training to test and validate the methodological devices built up. Ultimate goal is to promote common methodologies and tools for action in the process of relocating Seniors at European level. Project results should be useful to improve the skills and responsiveness of care and counselling technicians and devices in the process of outplace of this group with specific needs, keeping the coherence of their career, increasing confidence in themselves, and reducing job searching timescale. This may lead ultimately to an increase of business productivity and reputation (RSC), thanks to the experience and skills these senior professionals and workers have acquired throughout their career.