Spain: Infojobs records a decrease of 9% in job offers

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Infojobs registered 221,946 job offers during the month of February, 9% less than the previous month. The portal has reported that employment tends to slow down its positive evolution after the Christmas and sales campaigns, and recovers when the hiring of Holy Week starts.

Of total offers, 36% of contracts were indefinite, while 27% offered fixed-term contracts. The preferences of the candidates follow the same line, 78.5% asked for an indefinite job and 20% part-time.

Regarding the time of day, 60.7% were full-time offers compared to 36.7% of the candidates who offered this type of contract. 16.2% of the agreements offered are part-time, unlike 9.7% of the candidates who opted for this type of working day. And, finally, 3.1% of the offers required an intensive day against 13.1% of candidates who prefer this schedule.

By categories, sales and sales concentrated the largest number of positions offered in Infojobs, with a total of 47,944 vacancies; followed by IT and telecommunications, with 31,003 positions; and customer service, with 23,243 new offers.

A total of 1,052,150 people registered in the job offers of the portal in the second month of the year, and of all the registered candidates, 37.9% had university studies and 27.4% a formative cycle.

By Autonomous Communities, those that published the most offers in February were Madrid, with 69,151 vacancies, Catalonia with 54,664 applications and Andalusia, which totals 18,538 offers. And 14 autonomous communities saw their number of offers cut compared to January, notably the Valencian Community (-23%) and Asturias (-14%).

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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