GUS: 601,000 vacancies in 2015

"There were 601,000 new vacancies in Poland in 2015," the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. The majority of job offers were in the Masovian (20.6 percent), Silesian (11.5 percent) and Greater Poland Voivodships (10.9 percent); the minority - in the Opole Voivodship (1.7 percent). 91 percent of vacancies were provided by the private sector and 9 percent by public. Jobs were mainly created in 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 workers for the operation and assembly of machines & equipment (16.4 percent).