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Professional Services Professional Services And Management Consultancy Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities 70.22 - Business and other management consultancy activities
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 December 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
French-owned global IT services and business consultancy firm, Capgemini, announced plans to hire 100 employees. The company is looking for IT specialists with foreign language skills, especially French.
Capgemini has been operating in the country since 1996 and presently employs over 5,000 people in five offices across Poland (Wrocław, Kraków, Katowice, Warszawa and Opole). The company hired over 500 new employees in 2012 (see here).
The Capgemini group, headquartered in Paris, specializes in consulting, technology, outsourcing and local professional services and employs over 123,000 people in Europe, North America and Asia.
UPDATE: On 2 December 2012, Capgemini announced plans to create at least 500 jobs in 2013. Frank Wagenbauer, vice-chairperson of the company, said that Capgemini is looking for economists as well IT specialists with foreign language skills. The recruitment is partly assiociated with the creation of the sixth center in Poland.
Sources
3 December 2012: Rzeczpospolita ()
2 December 2012: Rzeczpospolita ()
25 November 2012: Rzeczpospolita ()
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Capgemini, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 74601, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74601.
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