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Mortgage broker

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

Other denominations:
Administrator of mortgage loans Mortgage administrator Mortgage analyst Mortgage coordinator Mortgage loans officer Mortgage officer Mortgage professional Officer for mortgage loan

Mortgage brokers handle mortgage loan applications from clients, collect loan documentation and search for new mortgage lending opportunities. They complete and close mortgage loan processes for their clients.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Interviewing applicants for personal, mortgage, student and business loans;
(b) Researching and evaluating loan applicant’s financial status, references, credit and ability to repay the loan;
(c) Submitting credit and loan applications to management with recommendations for approval or rejection;
(d) Approving or rejecting loan applications within authorized limits ensuring that credit standards of the institution are respected;
(e) Keeping records of payments, and preparing routine letters requesting payment for overdue accounts and forwarding these for legal action;
(f) Completing credit and loan documentation.

Knowledge

  • Finance, banking and insurance
  • Law
  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Statistics

Digital competencies

  • Analysing financial and economic data
  • Gathering information from physical or electronic sources
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Interviewing
  • Advocating for individual or community needs

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Communicating
  • Taking a proactive approach

Professional groups of the occupation

Professionals

Legal, social and cultural professionals

Social and religious professionals

Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals

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

Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals

108

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

65,45%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-17,56% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

97,22%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

12,96%

Part-time contracts

1,01% Turnover index

150

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-4%

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.

Legal, social and cultural professionals

41%

59%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Legal, social and cultural 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

Social and religious professionals

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?

Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
38%
Between 1 and 2 years
8%
Between 2 and 4 years
17%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
21%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
59%
Information and communication
12%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
5%
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
4%
Others
12%

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.