Job catalog - Employment
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Ocupacions
Employment agent
Employment agent Job placement officer
Employment agents work for employment services and agencies. They match job seekers with advertised job vacancies and provide advice on job search activities.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Matching jobseekers with vacancies;
(b) Finding workers for vacant posts against a commission from the employer or worker;
(c) Discussing with employers the skills and other characteristics required of the workers to be employed or contracted;
(d) Finding workers with appropriate skills, and undertaking the necessary formalities according to national or international regulations and requirements;
(e) Ensuring that the employment contracts meet legal requirements and signing them;
(f) Advising on training schemes.
Knowledge
- Management and administration
- Work skills
- Law
Digital competencies
- Complying with operational procedures
- Recruiting and hiring
- Planning events and programmes
- Coaching and mentoring
- Developing professional relationships or networks
Digital competencies
- Browsing, searching and filtering digital data
Personal competencies
- Supporting others
- Leading others
- Following ethical code of conduct
- Processing information, ideas and concepts
Professional groups of the occupation
Technicians and associate professionals
Business and administration associate professionals
Business services agents
Employment agents and contractors
Related training
Higher education
- Pedagogy Bachelor
- Social and Organizational Psychology Bachelor
- Psychopedagogy Bachelor
- Labour relations Bachelor
- Sociology Bachelor
Legend by training level:
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
Employment agents and contractors
114
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
42,22%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
-8,06% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
81,58%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
6,14%
Part-time contracts
1,05% Turnover index
2
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
-26%
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 associate professionals
61%
39%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Business and administration associate 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
Business services agents
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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?
Employment agents and contractors
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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