• Guidance on hiring
  • The SOC Services
  • Kind of contracts
  • Hiring foreign persons
  • Contractació via Feina Activa: Fons Estatal per a l'Ocupació i la Sostenibilitat Local
  • Job placement of persons with added difficulties
  • Servei telefònic del SOC per a empreses i ajuntaments per al registre d'ofertes de feina
• Job offers management
• Transversal programs
• How to become an entity or collaborating centre in terms of occupational training courses
• Continuous Training Services
• Local development programmes
• Territorial consortiums
• Frequently asked questions
• Incentives in the companies
• Aids and grants

The SOC Services

The SOC offers advising services to companies immersed in the Catalan labour market and collaborates with entities for developing programmes in order to improve the labour network.

The SOC has different ways of action:

• Training courses
  The Consorci per a la Formació Continuada de Catalunya manages several continuous training courses to promote businessmen/women and workers.
  
  
• The intermediation
  The Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya has a network of professional people. The Oficines de Treball (job offices) look for qualified persons for holding job offers.
  Once published a job offer, the SOC technicians, look for applicants in the job seekers database to get a list of persons, according to the required profile.
  
  
• Advising on hiring foreign workers
  The SOC offers this service to make easier hiring foreign workers in the countries of origin. It's a way of regulating the flow of migration and promotes the structured inclusion of the immigration.
  The SILO offices, located at Morocco and Colombia, offer this kind of service.
  
  
• Advising on doubts about hiring
  The legal services advise on the current kinds of contracts and their advantages. The advising is addressed to workers and businessmen/women.
  
  
• Advising on job placement
  The job placement technicians will help you to design strategies for the job placement of your workers, in case of streamlining.
  
  
• Subventions
  The SOC promotes and publishes subventions for projects, actions and programmes with an effect on labour market.