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Polish companies compete for IT talent

PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska 21.09.2018 08:30
Labour shortages in IT have pushed recruiters to compete for candidates online, website Money.pl reported.
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The industry has long shifted from an employer’s to an employee’s market, the website said.

A special platform connecting employers directly with job candidates is gaining ground in the country. Over 150 companies and around 8,000 IT specialists have so far registered in the it-leaders.pl website, where programmers set up profiles and employers send job offers to them. The platform was launched two years ago.

Human resource consulting company Sedlak&Sedlak estimated that the average gross pay in IT amounted to nearly PLN 7,000 (EUR 1,631; USD 1,907) last year. One in four IT specialists could count on a salary higher than PLN 9,000. Also, 80 percent of Polish companies greenlighted home office days. Other top fringe benefits included athletic facility membership cards, vocational training, private medical care and language courses.

According to the Central Statistical Office (GUS), Polish companies were short of 50,000 programmers last year. Each year, some 26,000 people commence IT courses at Polish universities, which offsets no more than half of the labour market’s shortages.

Meanwhile, EU companies from the West lure Polish professionals in the sector with higher salaries and various perks to fill an even bigger deficit, Money.pl said.

According to research run by online course website InfoShare Academy, the number of IT job vacancies may reach 1 million by 2020.

(aba)

Source: Money.pl

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