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Ocupacions

Shop assistant

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
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

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

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

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

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.

Science and engineering associate professionals

52%

48%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering 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

Physical and engineering science technicians

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

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?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
40%
Between 1 and 2 years
14%
Between 2 and 4 years
21%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
11%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

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.