Ukrainian women are making careers in Poland, opening their own businesses, working in high positions in multinational corporations, and are destroying the myth that they are coming to us only as cheap labour force (…)
‘The mass migration wave from Ukraine started in 2014 and had a major impact on the Polish economy. Employees from Ukraine care about long-term employment, which is confirmed by the number of applications for temporary residence permits’, says Mariya Kuzenko, Head of Legalization in the EWL Group, a company recruiting top-class specialists from Eastern markets.
The study ‘Ukrainians on the Polish labour market’, prepared by the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Foundation for the Support of Migrants on the Labour Market ‘EWL’, states that the number of people who would like to move to Poland permanently is growing year by year – in 2018 it was 22%, in 2019 – 32.7% of the surveyed Ukrainians. The main reasons are: higher quality of life, higher earnings than in Ukraine and better prospects for raising and educating children (…).
‘The largest group are people with higher and incomplete higher university education. Men dominate among the arrivals, but the proportion of women is increasing every year. These people are looking for a job that matches their education. It is worth noting that many of them find themselves in managerial and executive positions’, summarizes Mariya Kuzenko from the EWL Group, a company recruiting people for work, among others from Ukraine.
Source: Forbes.pl
