POLAND – SGH, SGH WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

School support:

We support mainly home students by offering them internship opportunities. These are published in our online career services here as well as on the CEMS SGH webpage here. Every registered student can apply to them online. What is more, users can subscribe weekly newsletter with the latest job and internship offers.

We provide career advice, which includes: psychological tests and career consultation, advice on how to prepare the curriculum vitae and letter of application, successfully handle an interview. We offer workshops (in Polish) on Recruitment regarding Selection Secrets, Assessment Centre, selfpresentation, etc. conducted by our career advisors.

We provide students with the latest news on: recruitment activities in companies, internship programmes, ambassador programmes, competitions, scholarships, volunteer programmes, education and career fairs, workshops and training programmes, conferences, seminars and open days, the situation on the labour market, etc.

Contacts:

CEMS CRM: Aneta Szydlowska, aszydlo@sgh.waw.pl

Career Placement Office: Anna Matysiak, anna.matysiak@sgh.waw.pl

Home students can contact the Alumni Office Team here

Legislation:

As a general rule, in order to perform work in Poland legally, foreign nationals should have a work permit issued by the relevant regional governor or ‘voivode’ (wojewoda) in relation to the employer’s headquarters. There are several categories of foreign nationals who are exempt from this obligation, such as:

- Citizens of the European Union, other countries of the European Economic Area, Switzerland and members of their families; Foreigners with a settlement permit;

- Foreigners granted a long-term EC resident status in Poland;

- Foreigners granted a long-term EC resident status in another EU country, with a temporary residence permit in Poland, issued on the base of employment;

- Refugees, people granted temporary protection, people granted the tolerated stay status

Most significant categories of non-EEA nationals are not required to possess a work permit:

1. Students of Polish universities – during the summer break – in July, August, and September;

2. Students on internships arranged by international student associations;

3. Students within a framework of co-operation between Polish employment services and their partners abroad;

4. Foreign students on paid internships.

REMARKS: even though the above-mentioned categories of non-EEA nationals do not require a work permit, they must still have a visa for the purpose of work, issued by the Polish consulate.

Further information:

Voivodship Offices (Social Affairs Units), Regional Labour Offices – these are different in each voivodship:

Dolnośląskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Lubelskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Lubuskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Łódzkie Voivodeship Office (here)

Małopolskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Mazowieckie Voivodeship Labour Office (here)

Opolskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Podkarpackie Voivodeship Office (here)

Podlaskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Pomorskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Śląskie Voivodeship Office (here):

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Wielkopolskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship Office (here)

Poland - Immigration and Asylum information (here)

EURES – The European job mobility portal (here)

Further resources here, here, here and here.

Requested documents:

An application regarding a foreigner’s work permit (if needed) is submitted by the potential employer.

Company support:

The employer usually supports an intern in preparation of the required documents in order to prepare work permit or residence documents (if needed).

Companies can create their account in SGH Online Career Services and post job, and internship offers. They can also carry out a promotion action and give a presentation at SGH in order to recruit students.

For graduates:

The CEMS office at SGH supports CEMS students who have already graduated from their home university but who are still CEMS students. We support them in obtaining the necessary certificate in order to obtain an internship. Graduates can receive internships on the same basis as regular students.