DEPARTMENT stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets across Spain are among the companies actively seeking new employees right now to cover the pre-Christmas through to January sales rush.
With 2021's festive season looking set to be closer to 'normal' than that of 2020, when restrictions were in place across the continent, retailers are hoping to do a better trade this year and are recruiting en masse to cover the rise in workload.
Aldi, Lidl, Alcampo, Mercadona and the national department chain El Corte Inglés are just a handful of the shopping giants with vacancies now open.
Mercadona, the largest supermarket in Spain in terms of market share, currently has 235 jobs advertised ranging from check-out staff and warehouse workers through to shelf-stackers, delicatessen and fish counters, among others.
For delivery driver vacancies, a clean licence is requested, but otherwise only compulsory high-school education, or the equivalent of GCSEs, are needed.
Full-time and part-time positions need to be filled, with the former paying a gross monthly salary of €1,338 (a take-home pay of €1,132 per month), a part-time, 15-hour week paying €502 a month before tax (around €450 net), and for 20 hours a week, €669 a month gross, or €616.60 net.
Similar rôles are advertised in Alcampo supermarkets, although prior customer service experience is necessary.
El Corte Inglés has around 6,000 seasonal vacancies nationwide, covering various functions including sales assistants – toys and food in particular – and in the cafés and restaurants in store, with on-the-job training provided for new recruits and a 'very attractive and novel' salary and perks package, according to its website.
One of two international German supermarket chains – along with Lidl – Aldi is seeking 70 new staff members, nearly all of them in store and across a number of different provinces, with a minimum entry requirement of compulsory high-school education; those who have studied the FP Dual, or GCSE-equivalent vocational course, in retail, business or sales will earn extra 'points', as will having experience in the industry.
Customer-focused, with a high level of responsibility and able to work under one's own initiative, team-working skills, and residence locally are all considered a plus.
Lidl has 71 jobs advertised, ranging from check-out and shelf-stacking staff – in the majority – with a handful in assistant store managers and staff relations consultants.
Based in a variety of locations, the positions will need applicants to be available to work rotating shifts and to have a minimum of compulsory high-school education, with previous experience in the industry being a bonus.
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