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Pawnbroker

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Deposit lender Loaner Pawn agent Pawn broker Pawnbroker Pawnshop manager Pawnshop operator Pawnshop owner

Pawnbrokers offer loans to clients by securing them with personal objects or items. They assess the personal items given in exchange for the loan, they determine their value and amount of loan available and keep track of inventory assets.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Evaluating articles offered as pledges, calculating interest, and lending money;
(b) Returning articles when the loan is paid or, in the event of non-payment, selling pledged articles;
(c) Lending money as personal loans against success of future harvest and other similar undertakings;
(d) Collecting loans when the pledge involved the success of future harvest and other similar undertakings;
(e) Keeping a record of items received and money distributed and received.

Knowledge

  • Finance, banking and insurance

Digital competencies

  • Selling products or services
  • Determining values of goods or services
  • Gathering information from physical or electronic sources
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Negotiating and managing contracts and agreements

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

  • Demonstrating willingness to learn
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Communicating
  • Taking a proactive approach

Professional groups of the occupation

Clerical support workers

Customer services clerks

Tellers, money collectors and related clerks

Pawnbrokers and money-lenders

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Pawnbrokers and money-lenders

4

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

80,00%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

100,00% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

100,00%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

,00%

Part-time contracts

1,00% Turnover index

0

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

200%

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.

Customer services clerks

37%

63%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Customer services clerks

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

Tellers, money collectors and related clerks

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?

Pawnbrokers and money-lenders

Activitats professionals, científiques i tècniques
33%
Activitats administratives i serveis auxiliars
25%
Indústries manufactureres
17%
Construcció
9%
Transport i emmagatzematge
8%
Altres
8%

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.

Occupations that share knowledge and skills

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.