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Wide of business meeting 2. Close of Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland3. Wide of meetingFebruary 10, 20134. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFebruary 12, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of business meeting \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of meeting\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 10, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am here, I am here again because my country is falling apart. There are no jobs, there is no hope, there are no possibilities, and I have been forced to return to Poland.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 12, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of Javier in meeting\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of colleague drawing diagram\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 10, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here, I am recovering my dignity and Poland is giving me another chance to have a normal life, let's say.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of Bofarull Marques showing framed photograph of his family \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of photograph\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 11, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of international call centre, employees seated at desks \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close, pull focus of employee\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of man working on his computer\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of fingers typing on keyboard\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 12, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marek Grodzinski, Head of Capgemini Business Centre in Krakow, Poland:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Fantastic talent pool. There are 400 to 500-thousand graduates every year coming on the market. That's a great pool for firms like ours.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 11, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of Luxsoft office, employees working on computers \u003cbr/\u003e16. Close high angle of woman working on her computer \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of employees \u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 10, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e18.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Przemek Berendt, Vice President of Global Marketing at Luxsoft:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't anticipate it unless, suddenly, there are too many entrants into the country and companies that will build their hiring strategy on rising salaries which will be bad for the entire sector. So as long as the country and the sector can control its growth, I don't expect that inflation of the salaries will get out of control.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 12, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of Javier in meeting\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of marker pen in hand\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 10, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Time has shown every day that, more and more and more, I am feeling more comfortable here and soon, soon, I will love this country as I love my Spain, my Barcelona.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 11, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of Krakow Business Park sign\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid of people getting off the train\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of people walking down the stairs \u003cbr/\u003eSpaniard Javier Bofarull Marques is one of the many people who have left Western European countries in search of work in Poland in recent years. \u003cbr/\u003eA key source of this phenomenon comes from Poland's outsourcing sector which has exploded, turning Poland into \"the leading outsourcing destination in Europe,\" according to a recent report by Jones Lang Lasalle.\u003cbr/\u003ePoland's economy has grown for 21 years straight, while some Western European countries are trying to recover from their most crippling recession in generations. \u003cbr/\u003eThe result is a striking change in its infancy: a country whose poverty and political oppressiveness once drove its people abroad in droves is now attracting workers from the West.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here I am recovering my dignity,\" explained 44-year-old Bofarull Marques.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Poland is giving me another chance.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBofarull Marques landed a job with an international firm as a senior financial accountant after a fruitless eight-month search in Barcelona. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was not the scenario he imagined when he first moved to Krakow in 2006 for a girlfriend.\u003cbr/\u003eThe relationship eventually ended, but along the way he bought an apartment, made friends and witnessed Poland's economic transformation. \u003cbr/\u003eHe moved back to Spain in 2011 but only managed to find work for a short time before ending up with the mass of unemployed. \u003cbr/\u003eEight months of trying to find work were enough for him and so he returned to Krakow last April and quickly found work with Capgemini. \u003cbr/\u003eThe company does business back in Spain, and puts his language skills to use with that.\u003cbr/\u003ePoland's booming outsourcing sector amid a larger economy that keeps growing has left Bofarull Marques more optimistic about the future of Poland than Spain, and he expects to make Poland home for many years, perhaps even until retirement. \u003cbr/\u003eThe number of people from richer Western countries working in Poland is still small, and some Poles still migrate to Britain and other higher-wage countries in the West. \u003cbr/\u003eNonetheless, years of economic growth and European Union membership are indisputably transforming this country of 38 (m) million people, the largest of the former Eastern Bloc states now in the EU.\u003cbr/\u003ePoland's outsourcing phenomenon began nearly 10 years ago when some international companies began outsourcing simple tasks to the country; workers would key invoices into computer systems, or Poles with knowledge of various languages would answer customer questions on help desks, taking calls from across Europe. \u003cbr/\u003eSince then, the tasks have grown increasingly sophisticated, and now include software development along with a wide range of accounting, financial and legal services.\u003cbr/\u003eThe result has been the growth of new and challenging jobs that are limiting a brain drain from Poland. \u003cbr/\u003eThe tasks being performed in Poland now are many: graphic designers develop marketing campaigns for companies thousands of kilometres (miles) away, workers use Hebrew or Italian to procure orders for a Swiss agriculture company from an office in Krakow, accounting teams prepare tax filings for the French or other governments, and research centres develop computer software used in German cars.\u003cbr/\u003eThere are now office buildings and office parks sprawled across many Polish cities where the outsourcing takes place, including Gdansk, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Lodz. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the clear leader is Krakow, which was even ranked this year as the world's No. 10 outsourcing destination worldwide, ahead of even Shanghai and Beijing, by Tholons, a Washington-based offshore consulting and investment advisory firm.\u003cbr/\u003eForeign companies are attracted to Poland for several reasons, including labour costs that are roughly half of those in Western Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eBut executives says it goes far beyond that. \u003cbr/\u003ePolish university graduates often have strong backgrounds in information technology and engineering, a continued legacy of the communist-era educational system, as well as widespread knowledge of English and other foreign languages.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is also a sizeable country in the centre of Europe and produces about 400-thousand university graduates each year. \u003cbr/\u003ePoland has a \"fantastic talent pool,\" said Marek Grodzinski, who heads a business centre for the French outsourcing company, Capgemini, in Krakow. \u003cbr/\u003e\"That's a great pool for firms like ours.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe outsourcing sector in the Eastern European country now employs more than 100-thousand people working for international companies, and is projected to grow another 15 to 20 percent by the end of the year, according to the Association of Business Service Leaders, a group that represents 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