GUS: 601 thousand vacancies in 2015

"There were 601,000 new vacancies in Poland in 2015, " Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS) reports. The majority of job offerts was in Masovian (20.6 percent), Silesian (11.5 percent) and Greater Poland Voivodeships (10.9 percent); the minority - in Opole Voivodeship (1.7 percent). 91 percent of vacancies were provided by private sector and 9 percent by public. Mainly jobs were created in the trade and companies involved in the repair of motor vehicles, manufacturing and construction. In the fourth quarter of 2015 there were still 15,800 open vacancies. In Q4 employers were looking for industrial workers and craftsmen (21.2 percent), professionals (21.1 percent) and operators and assemblers of machines & equipment (16.4 percent).