Young Poles affected by unemployment

The unemployment rate among Poles under 25 stood at 22 percent in Q4 2014, a decline of 5.3 percentage points year-on-year, according to the Badanie Aktywności Ekonomicznej Ludności report presented by the Central Statistical Office (GUS).As little as 13 percent of youth remain unemployed for only a month and 27.2 percent for three months. More than 60 percent are looking for a job longer than 3 months, of which 24 percent are unemployed for more than a year.

Nearly half of the unemployed under 25 have no work experience and half of the remaining worked less than one year.

Around 22 percent of jobless young Poles graduated from primary schools, 21 percent finished vocational schools, 21 percent graduated from secondary schools and only 8 percent have a tertiary degree.