Disabled entrepreneur wants to tap into untouched workforce

10th February 2012

Jane Hatton, a finalist in the Stelios Disabled Entrepreneurs Award 2008, wants Britain's disabled population to discover opportunities in the job market.

"I wanted to prove that despite my injury I, like many others have still got plenty to offer and with a few simple adaptations, the skills and enthusiasm of ten million disabled people across the country can be tapped into," she said during the interview with the Stourbridge News.

Ms Hatton is disabled herself. She suffered a spinal injury seven years ago that left her unable to walk and difficulty standing.

She established the not-for-profit company Evenbreak hoping that others, like her, would overcome their physical or mental restrictions to enjoy a full and satisfying working life.

The company, which is based in the West Midlands, functions as a board for jobseekers.

There are no other organisations in the UK run by disabled people that are dedicated to finding jobs for others suffering from disabilities.

Employers that use the job board are clearly willing to look beyond disabilities. That is an invaluable factor for disabled people that have been on the job hunt for a long time.

The organisation has rapidly gained the support of big companies that hope to utilise Evenbreak's potential at tapping into a high quality workforce that is otherwise quite difficult to recruit from.

Yorkshire Water, the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Zurich Finance and Smiths Medical are all high-profile clients of Evenbreak.

Remploy, one of the country's largest employment services, has recently revealed that there has been over 20,000 mainstream jobs that are suitable for people with a range of disabilities over the past year.

Evenbreak can hopefully give disabled people the confidence and the means to seek and attain those jobs.

"Thank you so much for your site, I had given up on ever being able to work again then you came along and have proved me wrong," explains one individual that successfully found a job using Evenbreak.

Evenbreak is completely free for users to search and apply for jobs while there is a small fee for organisations keen to post job vacancies.

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