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A recent report on recruiting employees via the internet shows how polarized the Polish labor market has become. According to the report, Labor market in Poland - recruitment potential of Polish Internet, the Mazowsze, Silesia and Dolnośląskie voivodships appear to be the most tech-savvy labor markets. Some 47 percent of all job offers on the internet came from these voivodships, which also boast some of the country's highest economic growth and investment rates.

Mazowsze took the top spot, with 26 percent of offers (226,040 offers total) originating in the region. Silesia came in second with less than half of Mazowsze's count, at 103,652 offers. Dolnoślàskie boasted just over 79,000 offers.

The sectors of the economy that most often seek employees on the internet are: sales, with almost 25 percent of offers; production, with 12.5  percent of offers; and the technical, engineering and IT branch with 6.6 percent of offers.

The most advertised profession on the internet is sales representative. Rounding out the top five most sought-after positions are: clerks, physical laborers, assistants/secretaries, and computer programmers. 

The report was the result of research done on Poland's eight largest job-search websites (gazetapraca.pl, gratka.pl, hrk.pl, infopraca.pl, jobpilot.pl, jobs.pl, praca.pl and pracuj.pl.). All of the job offers uploaded onto these sites during the first half of 2007 - over 860,000 offers total - were examined.

However, the experts said that traditional media still provide many more offers.

"Papers still remain the main medium for searching for employees, but the internet has potential," said Dorota Bachman from GazetaPraca.pl, which prepared the report using data provided by Gemius. "The more people in Poland have internet connection, the more people will use it for job searches. Online ads are easier to use," she added.

Anna Kalembasiak