About 90% of Ukrainians working in Poland are satisfied with their jobs with only 10% of them looking for a new employer, a survey has shown.
Gremi Personal, a staffing agency for foreigners, found that 17% of highly qualified Ukrainians had found jobs in the area they used to work in back home, 50% said they were looking for such jobs and 33% believed it was impossible to find one.
There are 739,000 Ukrainian citizens working in Poland, Gremi Personal adds, quoting data from the social insurer ZUS.
60% of Ukrainians working in Poland said they could not find more specialist jobs owing to not being able to speak Polish, 15% believed that employers preferred Poles, while 12% said their degree had not been recognised in Poland.
13% admitted that they had not had a good job in Ukraine, either.
Half of the Ukrainians said they were learning Polish, 30% claimed they could already communicate in the language, 10% said they did not need Polish in their jobs and 10% said they had already learnt the language.
According to Anna Dzhobolda, director for international recruitment at Gremi Personal, Ukrainians have also set up a number of firms in Poland.
“Ukrainian companies are eager to employ Ukrainians,” she said. “Thanks to this, highly qualified specialists have the chance to find good jobs.”
Gremi Personal carried out the survey in February among 1,350 Ukrainians who came to Poland after Russia invaded Ukraine a year before. (PAP/Business World Magazine)