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Ocupacions
Shop assistant
Department store shop assistant Department store shop worker Filling station shop assistant Filling station shop worker Garden centre shop assistant Garden centre shop worker Hypermarket shop assistant Hypermarket shop worker Museum shop assistant Outlet centre shop assistant Outlet centre shop worker Senior shop assistant Senior shop worker Shop assistant Supermarket shop assistant Supermarket shop worker Trainee shop assistant Trainee shop worker
Shop assistants work in shops where they perform assistance duties. The help shopkeepers in their daily work such as ordering and refilling of goods and stock, providing general advice to customers, selling products and maintaining the shop.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Determining customer requirements and advising on product range, price, delivery, warranties and product use and care;
(b) Demonstrating and explaining to customers the establishment's goods and services;
(c) Selling goods and services, accepting payment by a variety of payment methods, preparing sales invoices and recording sales using cash registers;
(d) Assisting with the ongoing management of stock such as product inventories and participating in stock takes;
(e) Stacking and displaying goods for sale, and wrapping and packing goods sold.
Knowledge
- Wholesale and retail sales
- Work skills
Digital competencies
- Selling products or services
- Executing financial transactions
- Promoting products, services, or programs
- Developing professional relationships or networks
- Planning events and programmes
Digital competencies
- Creating visual displays and decorations
Personal competencies
- Supporting others
- Demonstrating willingness to learn
- Collaborating in teams and networks
- Communicating
Professional groups of the occupation
Professionals
Business and administration professionals
Administration professionals
Personnel and careers professionals
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Personnel and careers professionals
63.531
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
43,02%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
,77% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
58,54%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
61,05%
Part-time contracts
1,40% Turnover index
20.032
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
-1%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Business and administration professionals
46%
54%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Business and administration professionals
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Administration professionals
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Personnel and careers professionals
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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