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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 April 2013
Employment effect (start)
16 April 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
On 15 April 2013, the software company Ericpol Telecom announced plans to hire 200 engineers at the units in Kraków and ?ód?.
Ericpol Telecom is looking for programmers, testers, technical documentation specialists who know English. The new recruits will be graduates as well as experienced specialists. The new recruits will develop projects for sectors such as telecommunications, banking and public administration.
Ericpol Telecom was founded in Poland and has been operating in the IT sector since 1991. Currently the company employs around 1,350 people working at the company's premises located in Lodz, Krakow and Warsaw and in the foreign sites in Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus.
Eurofound (2013), Ericpol Telecom, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 75303, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75303.
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