• Guidance on hiring
  • The SOC Services
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  • Hiring foreign persons
    • Intermediation and occupational training in country of origin services (SILO)
    • Residence and work permits
    • Collective managemenet of hirign in country of origin
    • Catalogue of all jobs difficult to hold
  • 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
• Processing first work permits
• Incentives in the companies
• Aids and grants

INTERMEDIATION AND OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN SERVICES (SILO)

The intermediation, occupational training and initial reception in country of origin service (SILO) is a service that the SOC makes available to companies with workplaces in Catalonia that need to hire foreign workers in their countries of origin.

This method of hiring contributes to the rational regulation of migratory flows and an ordered inclusion of immigration.

When and how can a company request the SILO services?

When it is difficult or impossible to find the professional profiles that companies require though the Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya. This situation is justified through any of the following situations:

1. when the job offer is for a job included in the jobs of collective management of hiring in countries of origin;
2. when the job offer forms part of the catalogue of all jobs difficult to hold;
3. when the offer that the Work Office has processed and has issued the certificate of insufficiency of suitable and available applicants to accept the offer.

The SILO services can be applied for through the Work Offices (OT), the Technical Secretary of the SOC, or by contacting directly the SILO office. The application, on the supposition of the general job offers being processed through the collective management of hiring in countries of origin, may be done simultaneously to the process initiated with the corresponding office of the sub-delegations of the Catalan Government.

To make the application the companies must fill in and sign a document that states the delegation of representation in the selection processes, as well as the commitment to accept the people selected.

Portfolio of SILO services

Pre-selection services

The SILO can undertake the pre-selection tasks of the candidates. During this process the SILO will be in contact with company to inform them of the evolution of the results. The company will make the selection of the people and start up the contractual procedure of the people involved through the Work offices of the Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya (stable job offers) or through the foreigners offices of the Government Delegation (seasonal job offers).

Worker selection services

In the contractual procedure of the procedure of collective management of hiring in countries of origin, when the body responsible has evaluated the offer positively and has processed it to the consular office to process the selection in country of origin, the SILO can accompany the company in the entire process of worker selection. In the case whereby the company delegates this function to the SILO, it will exercise for all purposes its representation in the selection process.

Later services in the selection of workers

In the supposition of the job offers processed through the general system, the procedures for the processing of visas and travel arrangements must be made by the person interested. The SILO can help these people process their visas and arrange their journey to Catalonia.

In the job offers processed through the procedure of collective management of hiring in countries of origin, the SILO can represent the company, if delegated by them, in the final stage of selection before the Consular Office. It can also undertake the administrative procedures for the peoples' travel arrangements, such as the collection of the documentation for processing visas and other operations.

Information and training service for the people selected

The SILO offers a reception service abroad for the people selected and provides training and information about occupational, social and cultural aspects of Catalonia: Materials for the first linguistic welcome .

Moreover, at the request of the companies, it can organise, undertake and subsidise training actions addressed to the people selected in the questions they consider necessary.

Sphere of activity

The SILO services are offered for countries with which there are signed agreements with Spain regarding migratory flows.

The SILO services addressed to eastern European and north African countries are undertaken from the Technical Secretary's office of the SOC.

The SILO services addressed to South America are undertaken from the SILO office in Colombia:

Head: Sra. Olga Díaz de Zubieta
Avenida Karrera 24 Number 85A47, Barrio el Polo
Bogota (Colombia)
E-mail: silo.latinoamerica@gmail.com