Type of Companies by Professional Sector

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Type of Companies by Professional Sector

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What is a professional sector? What is the difference between a subject and a sector? How do I know which sector I belong to? When you start working for a company, your contract specifies the exact position that you will “theoretically” perform, as well as the collective agreement to which that contract is subject. Similarly, if you are self-employed, your professional sector will depend on how you have registered with Social Security.

What is the collective agreement and where can I find it?:
By definition, the Convention is an agreement between unions and employers of a company (in some countries with government intervention) to establish salaries, work schedules and other working conditions. You can search for the convention to which you belong with the job position that appears on your payroll at:

BOE (Official State Gazette)
Asking the unions
Through specific agreement search engines
⚠ Be careful! It is not enough to know which sector your company belongs to, since within the same company there are workers from different sectors. For example: if you work in a glue company, your professional sector would be chemistry, but your job is administrative, so your agreement would be for offices and workspaces.

What is a professional sector? What does the collective agreement have to do with the professional sector/family?:
The SEPE defines a professional sector as "a set of related productive activities (use of technologies, circulation of training, language, skills, knowledge developed, types of products...) for homogeneous professional development ". Each sector has a collective agreement, that is, a set of agreements established by the representatives of the workers in the professional sector (normally a union), the company of each worker and, in some cases, the government.

How are the professions that will form part of each sector decided? Royal Decree 1416/2005 of 25 November established the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications.

The professional sector in Femxa Courses:
Relatively recently, the systems for providing state-subsidised courses have been updated. It is essential to belong to certain sectors and meet certain access requirements if you want to take a free course for workers or self-employed workers.

In Femxa Courses you can consult the courses by sector that you can access through the following links:

Navigating through the "Courses" menu of the website: View all course sections
Check out the following post on our Blog: How to know your professional sector
Once you access each of the course categories by sector, you will find a text specifying the type of companies included in each of them. For example, in the Administration and Management Sector:







Official State Terminology:
Do you want to locate a course by its alphanumeric code or CNO? We will tell you telemarketing leads usa dattelephone numbera how the official terminology works.

The official terminology of the State codifies occupational classifications using a 5-digit alphanumeric sequence ( CNO-94 ):

The first digit (Major Group) identifies the professional qualification
The second digit (Main Subgroup) differentiates the qualification's specializations
The third digit (Subgroup) distinguishes the professional sector of economic activity
The fourth digit (Primary Group) contains occupations
The fifth digit designates the specific employment
This terminology is hierarchized according to the levels of academic qualification (International Standard Classification of Education ( ISCED )):

Level 1: Primary Education (6-12 years)
Level 2: Secondary Education (up to 15 years)
Level 3: Secondary education (up to 18 years)
Level 5: Non-University Education (17-22 years)
Level 6-7: University Education
*CINE category 4 is deliberately left without content.

There are other types of encodings that add intermediate numbers, but follow the same criteria:

ISCO-88 (download link at the end) which is based on: qualification (which determines the most complex level of aggregation) and employment (which determines the most basic level of aggregation).
CNO-11 (download link at the end) is more disaggregated than ISCO-08. It introduces an intermediate level between the first and second levels of the latter, which softens the structure and should be understood as an alternative to the Large Groups.


CNAE coding



I hope this little guide has cleared up your doubts, and remember:

It is important that you know which professional sector you belong to, as this will help you find the courses that best suit your profession.
Be careful! There may be different professional sectors in your company.
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