Relocating to Krakow, Poland from England. How easy to find a job?

Hi there
looking at moving to Krakow at end of Summer 2008.
I would like to hera from English people who have relocated to Poland.
How easy is it to find work.
There seems to be a lot of English companies looking for people to work in Poland.

Us Scots have also moved to Poland but i guess you only want to speak with English people.

You wouldn't understand us anyway!!

What?

Exactly :)

sorry I stand corrected and the article should have read anyone from the united kingdom
still interested on your views

Thats more like it my friend :)

Sorry,what did you say?

The sad truth is that Poland is a very hard country to live in. It's great for a holiday but please think very carefully about moving here. As a foreigner here you will only be able to teach English, this is great for students on their 'year out' who want to get laid or pervy retired gents who want to get laid! There is absolutely no chance of getting any kind of simple job such as working in shops, pubs - ex-pat pubs included even if you have a good knowledge of the Polish language (which I have) and once you are here English companies won't interview you as they prefer to send their own people from home. Add to this the day to day 'traumas' one has to deal with and you really have to ask yourself is it worth it? I can't wait to sell my apartment here and get the hell away ASAP!

true true true

Really? Sounds strange. If you do have good knowledge of Polish, then you shouldn't have any problem to get such "simple" job.... the question is if you can live by its salary.

true also

You seem unhappy with Life in Poland and i'm sorry that it's not turned out very well for you.

I was moved to Warsaw by my company and when my contract ended i had the option of staying in my job and moving to another country or stay and try and find a new one....i chose the latter.

It is possible to find a good job in the city if you have a degree and good experience, my Polish is terrible and it didn't stop me from finding a job in Warsaw.

Have some faith it can be done.

Unfortunately the minute I open my mouth prospective employers say "Where are you from? You're not from here?" and quite regularily I was told "Don't you know there are thousands of young Polish people who are unemployed". Imagine that being reversed in the UK...

"Where you from? Poland! Don't you know there are thousands of unemployed Brits"
Has that happened to anyone who posts on the forum? I really would be curious to know


My point exactly! I'm sure when your company sent you here you immediately gained access to folk in similar positions hence making it fairly easy for you to move to another job. I suspect the key to you finding another job is that you were originally sent here on a contract from a UK company. Think it may well have been a different story if you just came here 'unannounced'.

Then again as Bob Dylan says...Ah might be wrong about that! :>)

I understand what you are saying Tinhead, i did meet a few people in Warsaw but with regards to my current job i didn't know anyone and i no advantage. I agree that it is hard if you don't speak Polish but it can be done if you have the right qualifications and experience.

tinhead what languages can you speak? I may be able to hook you up with a job where I work ...

Zion, Thanks for the offer
I'm a native English speaker and speak fluent Polish. What kind of line of work are you in?

IT mate but English is the working Language POlish is of no need we need any other European lingo tough

Serbian-Croatian maybe?

It's serious question :)

I can ask for you but first I need to know are you in Warsaw ? if not is no good

No, I'm abroad Poland but moving to Krakow very soon (in a few weeks), though I don't have any experience in IT -except I'm linux user, what means little above average MS person :)

IT skills is not a must we can teach you that on basis that you will use .
Krakow is no good we are in Warsaw so you must live here .
Are you an EU passport holder ?
do speak those lingo as mother tongue level are you native ?
where are you from ?

Native Croatian. So, hold no EU pass but can obtain visas in Poland w/o prob (have a kid there).

But Warsaw is out of my interest (private reason). Thanks anyway

Yes you can get a visa but will take few months until you have a work permit residence card that entitle you to work .

after this process what will take a while only then you can work!

so drop me a line when you have a residence permit

Utter rubbish. All three parts of your statement! Poland is no harder to live in than any of the five countries I've lived in and a lot easier than two of them. There are plenty of jobs for people who do not want to teach English. I should know, I moved from teaching English into both of my subsquent full-time jobs. And teaching English is just fine as a job. The money is reasonable (you can easily make 6,000zl a month in Warsaw working just 25 hours a week) and there is no stress at all.

But I can't move from Krakow because of kid.

sorry mate the job is in warsaw

More rubbish. The procedure is this: employer posts a job offer for Poles/other EU citizens (taking care to make the offer so specific that nobody but you meets the criteria to apply), employer doesn't get any applicants, employer gets permission to offer the job to a non-EU national (i.e the promise of a work permit for that person), non-EU national goes to the Polish embassy in his country with this permission document and gets a visa which gives the possibility of working, that visa is shown to the authorities in Poland and the non-EU national gets his work permit. After one year the non-EU national applies for his residency permit.

Thanks anyway.


Dude, I have a kid in Poland and can obtain visa without problem.

and all that take hell lot of long time

what you know you were a teacher loser

Yes but you still need to get a work permit.


Actually it takes in the region of 8 weeks. But the authorities here are generally willing to let people work without a work permit as long as that person has actually applied for a work permit and is getting that work permit processed.


So teachers know nothing? Guess that's why you failed so miserably at school.
Being a teacher I've applied for more than a few work permits and residency permits so I have personal experience in what I'm talking about. I've also got a fairly solid grounding in Polish legal requirements, which is why I've recently charged an Israeli company PLN 918 (EUR 255) for writing a memo about living and working legally in Poland. So I suggest you get a clue and stop being such a twat.