Taking advantage of the proximity of Olivia Business Centre to the sea, we have prepared a unique offer for the growing community of our centre – the Olivia Yacht Club. As part of it, we returned m.in. to the formula of popular and practical meetings led by Mateusz Kusznierewicz, Olympic champion and world champion in sailing. The first training and regatta took place on 5 September.

On that day, in the late afternoon, a group of almost forty Olivia Business Centre Residents met at the National Sailing Centre in Gdańsk. In one of the conference rooms, the participants of the meeting listened carefully to the words of Mateusz Kusznierewicz, who explained the basic rules of the regatta and gave practical tips.

After a short briefing and getting acquainted with the basic rules of the regatta, the participants divided into crews and, under the supervision of instructors, started rigging yachts. The meeting was attended by people of various levels of advancement, including complete beginners. However, there was at least one person on board with experience as a helmsman.

After practicing the basic manoeuvres, the five-minute signal was given for the start of the first race. The route was simple, we had to go around the port side of the buoy and pass the starting line again. The regatta went smoothly, safely and in a friendly atmosphere, which is best evidenced by the smiling faces of our sailors.

Unfortunately, after four races, we had to return to the port to make it before dark. In the end, the crew of yacht no. 8 turned out to be the best, scoring the same number of points as the crew of yacht no. 5, but finishing the last race in a higher position.

” I’m very proud of you ,” said Mateusz Kusznierewicz at the end. – With each race you started better and better, and in the last one the time difference between the first and last crew on the starting line was less than a minute.

The meetings at the National Sailing Centre will last until winter. The next joint sailing is planned for October. But it doesn’t stop there. At the beginning of 2018 at Olivia Business Centre, theoretical meetings will begin with a course that will enable obtaining a patent. Judging by the reaction of the participants, the group of sailors in Olivia may soon grow significantly.

We invite you to test your strength, more information and registration at: yachtclub@oliviacentre.com.

Taking advantage of the fact that Olivia Business Centre is situated not far away from the sea, we have prepared a unique offer for the growing community of our centre – Olivia Yacht Club. Within its framework we came back to, for example, the form of popular and practical meetings led by Mateusz Kusznierewicz, the Olympic champion and world champion in sailing. First training and regatta took place on September 5.

This day, late afternoon, a group of nearly forty Olivia Business Centre Residents met in the National Sailing Centre in Gdańsk. In one of the conference rooms, participants listened carefully to Mateusz Kusznierewicz’s words, who was explaining basic regatta’s rules and gave practical tips.

After a short briefing and getting acquainted with basic regatta’s rules, participants divided into teams and started to rig their yachts under the supervision of instructors. People with skills on different levels, even complete beginners, attended the meeting. However, on every yacht there was at least one person who was experienced as a pilot.

After going through some basic manoeuvres, the signal was given, what meant that there were five minutes left till the start of the first race. The route was easy. Participants had to go round a buoy with yacht’s left port and once again pass the starting line. Regatta proceeded smoothly, safely and in friendly atmosphere – smiles on our sailors’ faces were the best proofs.

Unfortunately, after four races it was time to come back to the harbour before the dusk. Ultimately, the crew from yacht number 8 turned out to be the best. Its members scored as many points as crew number 5, but they completed the last race in higher position.

– I am very proud of you – said Mateusz Kusznierewicz in his closing speech. – Race after race you were getting better. In the last race, the time difference between first and last crew at the starting line was less than one minute.

The meetings in the National Sailing Centre will be held till winter. Another joint sailing is planned for October. However, that is not the end. At the beginning of 2018 in Olivia Business Centre, there will begin a course, which will enable you to get a sailing license. First meetings will be theoretical. Judging from participants’ reactions, the group of sailors in Olivia may become much bigger.

Try your hand, more information and registration are available on:
yachtclub@oliviacentre.com
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A month ago, at Olivia Business Centre, we initiated a campaign to help those affected by the storms that swept through Pomerania on the night of 11 to 12 August. The districts of Kościerski, Bytów and Chojnice suffered the most. The damage in the municipalities was (and still is) enormous: torn power lines, flooding, torn roofs of houses, schools, offices… During the storms, 5 people died. According to current estimates, the effects of the cataclysm will be removed even for several years, fallen trees… by 2019 (as a result of the storm, more than 44 thousand hectares of forests were destroyed).

A few days after the catastrophe, representatives of Olivia Business Centre were present at the site in Chojnice. We talked m.in. with Inspector Adam Kuklewski from the Department of Organization and Civic Affairs of the Municipality of Chojnice and Bernadette Zimnicka, Director of the Municipal Education Team. A joint analysis of the most urgent needs resulted in the rapid purchase of a power generator, tarpaulins and saws by Olivia Business Centre, which were handed over to the representatives of the municipality a moment later. More m.in on the website of the Volunteer Fire Brigade in Charzykowy.

– We went all the way to Słupsk to buy chainsaws – says Paweł Pinker from Olivia Business Centre – There were simply not enough of them in the immediate vicinity. It is encouraging that the most important needs signalled at that time were reacted so quickly.

An issue that requires long-term action, according to the information obtained in the municipality, is the assistance to the school in Silno. The facility suffered a lot of damage, a large part of the roof was torn off, some rooms were flooded. We are still waiting for the final valuation of the damage. After receiving them, specific decisions will be made on the extent to which Olivia and her Residents can be involved in the process of rebuilding the school. It is used not only by pupils, kindergarten pupils and toddlers from grades 1-3, but also by the local community.

From the very beginning, we have also tried to involve the companies residing in our business complex in helping the victims. Individuals from Airhelp, Bayer and the company responded promptly to our appeal. Among the employees of Energi, Fujifilm and Staples , there was a min. collection of items needed by the school day-care center in Kłodawa, the school in Silo and other institutions whose pupils started the next school year in September.

On Monday, 11 September, Olivia Business Centre was visited by Zbigniew Szczepański , the mayor of the Chojnice commune and Krzysztof Gierszewski, the deputy mayor of the city of Brusy. They personally collected school supplies, including backpacks, pencil cases, office supplies, notebooks and crayons, collected by employees of the aforementioned Energa, Fujifilm and Staples.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL DONORS!

– What else can a community like ours do for you, the municipality, for the victims? – asked Zbigniew Szczepański at the end of the meeting, which was attended by representatives of donors, Monika Bogdanowicz from Olivia Business Centre.

– You have declared your help in the reconstruction of the old, historic school in Silno, for which I am very grateful. You have also already made significant donations, which have reached the most affected at a crucial moment. Let me remind you that the storm affected, also in a material sense, as many as 1/3 of the inhabitants of our commune, which has 18 thousand people. We value this gift of the heart. Often the work of psychologists is to give hope, you are such now, give us hope – said Zbigniew Szczepański, the mayor of the Chojnice commune. – Now you are directing your help to children. This help, school starter kits, is to the point and significant. I would like to thank all the companies from the bottom of my heart, on behalf of myself and the residents.

“We are in a city that is a symbol of great solidarity, with a capital S. You are also active here. This solidarity can be seen in Olivia Business Centre. – emphasized Zbigniew Szczepański and added – DYour interest in our wonderful tourist base and your presence in the beautiful municipalities of Brusy and Chojnice will be of additional help. We need to rebuild. Our national park or Bory Tucholskie did not suffer that much. We have over 160 km of bicycle paths in the county, we have 100 lakes… And we hope that the inhabitants of the Tri-City will simply come to us for holidays, rest, holidays. Welcome. This will be an invaluable support for us.

If any of you are still interested in cooperation and help, please contact us at razem@oliviacentre.com

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A month ago, in Olivia Business Centre, we initiated the campaign which aim was to help victims of storms, which hit Pomerania in the night of 11^th to 12^th August. Kościerski, Bytowski and Chojnicki counties suffered the most. Losses in communes were (and still are) serious: destroyed power lines, flooding, roofs of houses, schools and institutions were blown off… 5 people were killed during storms. According to current estimates, it will take a few years to deal with the consequences of this natural disaster. Fallen trees will have been removed till… 2019 (as a consequence of storms more than 44 thousand hectares of forests were damaged).

Just a few days after the disaster, the representatives of Olivia Business Centre were present on the site– in Chojnice. We talked, for example, to Adam Kuklewski – an inspector from Organisational and Civil Affairs Department of Chojnice Commune and with Bernadeta Zimnicka, director of municipal educational complex. Joint analysis of the most pressing needs resulted in Olivia Business Centre’s rapid purchase of power generator, tarpaulins and saws, which a while later were handed to the representatives of the commune. More information can be found, for example, on the website of Voluntary Fire Brigade in Charzykowy.

– We went to Słupsk to buy chain saws – said Paweł Pinker from Olivia Business Centre – There were none left in the nearest neighbourhood. It is heartwarming that people reacted so fast to the most important needs that were being signalised at that time.

According to information obtained in the commune, the issue, which requires long-term measures, is helping a school in Silno. The school was seriously damaged, considerable part of the roof was blown off, some rooms were flooded. Now we are waiting for the valuation of damages. Later on, we will determine to which extent Olivia and its residents can take part in school reconstruction. Not only students, pre-school children and children from classes 1-3 benefit from the school, but also the local community.

From the start, we have tried to prompt companies residing in our business complex to help the victims. The companies responded to our appeal in a flash, some individuals from, for example Airhelp, Bayer and other enterprises did too. Among workers from Energa, Fujifilm and Staples there was organised a collection of things needed in school clubroom in Kłodawa, school in Silno and other facilities, in which students started another school year in September.

On Monday, September 11^th, Olivia Business Centre was visited by Zbigniew Szczepański, mayor of Chojnice commune and Krzysztof Gierszewski, deputy mayor of the city of Brusy. They collected school starters which included backpacks, pencil cases, office supplies, notebooks and crayons gathered by the workers of Energa, Fujifilm and Staples.

– What can such a community as ours do for you, for your commune, for the victims? – this was the question Monika Bogdanowicz from Olivia Business Centre asked Zbigniew Szczepański at the end of the meeting, in which the representatives of donors took part.

– You declared help in the reconstruction of an old, historic school in Silno and I am very grateful for that. You also gave us significant gifts, which reached the most injured victims in a key moment. I would like to remind that the storm hit, also in a material sense, 1/3 of residents of our commune, which counts 18 thousand people. We do appreciate this gift of the heart. Very often the work of psychologists consists in giving hope. You are such people right now, you give us hope – said Zbigniew Szczepański, mayor of Chojnice commune. – Now you address your help to children. This help, school starters, is on point and significant. We would like to thank all companies from the bottom of our hearts on our behalf and on behalf of our residents.

– We are in a city, which is the symbol of great solidarity. You are also active here, you function here. This solidarity can be seen in Olivia Business Centre. – emphasised Zbigniew Szczepański and added – Your interest in our great tourist accommodation and your presence in beautiful Brusy and Chojnice communes will be additional help. We have to rebuild. Our national park and the Tuchola Forest didn’t suffer that much. In our district we have more than 160 kilometres of bicycle paths, 100 lakes… We hope that Tri-City residents will be simply coming to us for their holidays or in their leisure time. You are welcome. It will be invaluable support for us.

If you are still interested in cooperation and help, please write to us on
razem@oliviacentre.com

WE THANK ALL DONORS FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS!

Olivia Business Centre is the patron of the Gdańsk edition of the European Mobility Week (Sustainable Development). This cyclical initiative, which takes place in September, promotes sustainable transport and ecological ways of moving around the city. This year’s edition is held under the slogan “Let’s share mobility”. The idea is close to Olivia – over the last few months, Olivia Business Centre has been developing many projects related to ecology, promoting the change of habits related to moving around the city and improving the comfort of commuting to the centre.

Two wheels faster than four?

Commuting time to the workplace is one of the most important factors influencing the attractiveness of an employer’s offer. The location of the office in a well-connected place, such as the city center, makes the commute not only shorter, but also faster, simpler and cheaper.

Increasingly, as a means of transport, it is chosen… bicycle, especially since the network of bicycle paths in Gdańsk alone is currently as long as 671 km. This way of getting to Olivia Business Centre is used by more and more people, especially those living in the surrounding districts: Oliwa, Wrzeszcz, Zaspa, Przymorze, Jelitkowo or Morena.

– Cyclists benefit from the constantly expanding infrastructure in our centre. At the moment, there are over 500 parking spaces for cyclists, 5 large changing rooms with showers, separate lockers in changing rooms and bicycle repair stations in Olivia Business Centre. During the European Mobility Week, we also plan to treat cyclists to healthy snacks, m.in will be waiting for them. fresh fruit – says Katarzyna Halicka from the marketing department of Olivia Business Centre.

OBC also supported the European Cycling Challenge bicycle project, Spin kilometers for Gdańsk. Throughout May, people commuting to Olivia by bicycle could help themselves to healthy snacks at a special BioBazar Young City stand, or make a quick inspection of their two-wheeler at a mobile repair station of the City of Gdańsk.

Closer by bus

According to the results of surveys conducted among Olivia’s employees, Gdańsk’s Ujeścisko was the district from which it was most difficult to get directly to the business center. Often, the only choice was a car… It remained, because from May the route to and from OBC can be covered by Olivia’s bus – comfortably, with WiFi and without additional stops. The service includes two morning and two afternoon courses. The stops are located at ul. Piotrkowska Street, next to the Łostowice-Świętokrzyska tram terminus (new), and opposite Hala Olivia. The price of a monthly subscription is only PLN 10. Applications should be made by writing to the bus@oliviacentre.com.

Carpooling by car

In June, Olivia implemented another employee-friendly and integration solution – carpooling. Every person who decides to share a space in their car and commute to work with other employees of the centre has a chance to win, for example, parking spaces in Olivia. Employees have at their disposal a dedicated platform cp.oliviacentre.com. At the moment, the carpooling community has recorded more than 70 routes.

Electric cars to rent and charge

Since this year, Olivia has also been operating a carsharing service, a short-term rental of passenger cars. A solution dedicated to business customers who occasionally use a car was introduced by Enspirion sp. z o.o. (ENERGA Group) together with Olivia Business Centre. All vehicles in the fleet are environmentally friendly electric cars. It is worth noting that there are as many as two charging points for electric cars in Olivia Business Centre.

In recent months, Olivia Business Centre has also invested in the construction of a new intersection at ul. Grunwaldzka and the development of a rich parking infrastructure. Information about current events in Olivia Business Centre can be found on the www.oliviacentre.com website and on the Facebook profile: www.facebook.comoliviabusinesscentre

Today, work is a hot topic of analysis and a constant source of interest for individuals, representatives of companies, the business environment and the media. It is crucial for the business community to have constant access to up-to-date knowledge about the latest solutions in the HR industry, which can be useful for managers and executives of companies.

Thanks to the cooperation between Olivia Business Center and the HR Club, a cyclical event organized by Marcelina Godlewska from ABSL (Association of Business Service Leaders) and Richard Piskorz (BNP Paribas), we will have the opportunity to participate in a meeting in the Tri-City on the latest trends in the industry. It will take place on 21 September at Olivia Sky Club (registration required by contacting ABSL – http://absl.pl/pl/inicjatywy/kluby-absl/klub-hr/)

During the event, m.in will be presented. a report on applications in business, in the area of HR, the latest technologies: artificial intelligence. The guests of the HR Club will be m.in. creators of the Emlocity platform: Krzysztof Sobczak and Arkadiusz Talun.

Emplocity is an advanced solution that integrates the labour market at the level of the employee and the employer, significantly increasing the competitiveness of the above-mentioned companies. Segments. By introducing the reverse recruitment technique, it offers effective recruitment tools, creating an attractive alternative to outdated HR techniques and being an innovation in the area of costly headhunting processes.

If we look at the process of looking for a job from the employee’s point of view, we get a picture of a multitude of job offers, with the inability to take advantage of them at the place of residence or the inability to meet certain criteria (e.g. language). Looking from the employer’s point of view, we see a huge amount of data to be analyzed, which is necessary to effectively recruit an employee. This is often a task that effectively blocks HR departments and their effective support for business development. In order to be able to combine the real needs and capabilities of both companies and employees, solutions for the future are designed. These are already available in Poland, m.in. thanks to companies investing in business innovations.

We invite you to read the interview with Krzysztof Sobczak, President of Emplocity, who will be a guest of the cyclical event organized by ABSL – HR Club.

How to find the right employee and a new job faster and more efficiently, thanks to new technologies?

Monika Bogdanowicz (Communication Olivia Business Centre): New technologies are more and more boldly entering our everyday lives, as well as into areas where people have so far played a dominant role. The constantly growing demand for the process of effective search for employees – for companies and the often tedious search for a suitable place/position – by employees make recruitment more and more difficult. So we have higher and higher demands on both sides of this process. In addition, the latest technologies and Internet 4.0 are now also coming into play: artificial intelligence, automation or virtual reality. How and in what exactly can your Emplocity.pl project help companies and employees?

Krzysztof Sobczak (CEO of Emplocity): The main reason to use our solution is to save time. Most of us don’t have time to look for a job, especially when we already work somewhere. Reviewing, applying, and managing the process is often a full-time job. Our bot will do it for you. He will anonymously present his candidacy to hundreds of employers.

Only when they express interest in being invited to the recruitment process and – importantly – when your expectations regarding the offer are met; e.g. benefits, salary, form of cooperation, etc., then the bot will ask if you accept the invitation and want to provide your data. The entire burden related to communication and job search by the candidate is transferred to the bot, thus reversing the rules of the recruitment process.

On the other hand, when it comes to companies, our system handles the most difficult stages of recruitment and selection of candidates, helping them to make the right decisions, free from bias or cognitive biases. We analyze vast amounts of market information and data from a variety of sources, thanks to which we enable our clients to effectively carry out decision-making processes related to employment. We use the latest technological solutions to help employers automate the recruitment process, improve candidate satisfaction and increase recruiters’ productivity. Our services allow you to significantly shorten the time of recruiting employees, being an alternative to the traditional offer of recruitment agencies.

^{Fig. The creators of Emplocity, Arkadiusz Talun (from the left) and Krzysztof Sobczak; source: press release}

Change in the HR industry

MB: As a company, you want to revolutionize the entire process of searching for employees, mainly through the use of artificial intelligence. How did the idea for such a business project come about and what exactly was the impulse for its creation? What contributed to the subsequent stages of its development?

KS: The idea for this project stemmed from our previous negative experiences. We realized that the recruitment process is frustrating, inefficient, and time-consuming for both parties. A candidate wastes hours reading unrealistic job offers and participating in interviews with their authors. Searching through websites and offers is tedious and time-consuming, it reminds me of a nightmare. They all look the same, we don’t know what we’re going to do, how much, whether the application will reach the employer. We decided that this was a task that a machine could do better than a human.

MB.: Is the application dedicated only to the Polish market and only to the HR industry? Who else can benefit from its application and use?

KS: Currently, we are focusing on the Polish market, but of course we are considering a global variant over time, taking into account the scalability of this solution. It can be used by both medium and large companies with HR departments, but we also have an offer for smaller organizations that are also looking for employees, but do not have people dedicated to recruitment. Such a kind of external, sourced HR department is then an invaluable support for them.

MB.: Do you know the effects of the application for employees and to what scale of operation/reaching people do you set yourself in the coming months or year? How many companies and how many people will be using Emplocity in 3 years?

KS.: Within three years, we would like to become the third most important entity on the recruitment market, next to Pracuj.pl, LinkedIn and GoldenLine. That is our plan. Real support for robots and artificial intelligence in recruitment processes is needed.

^{Fig. Krzysztof Sobczak; source: press release}

MB: How do companies and HR specialists react to the possibilities of the solutions offered by your company? Is it possible to build trust in such methods of supporting their work? What obstacles do you face in convincing about the advantages of using the app?

KS: We are already receiving a lot of inquiries, both by e-mail and by phone, from employers. These are companies of different sizes and industries, more or less well-known brands, but they all have one thing in common – they all have problems in reaching the right candidates.

During meetings with them, we often hear that the solutions available on the market, such as recruitment portals or business social networking sites, do not fully pass the exam and an alternative is needed that will allow you to reach people who are not on the Pracuj.pl, GoldenLine or LinkedIn. There are about 10 million people of working age on Facebook, whom we are able to reach thanks to our Emplobot, which works in Messenger. So there is a huge potential for action here and most HR specialists are very enthusiastic about it. It is also worth mentioning that in the middle of the year, we asked 300 representatives of HR departments about their attitude to new technologies, including artificial intelligence in recruitment. As many as 72% of respondents believe that today it is necessary to implement new technologies at the stage of reaching candidates and obtaining their applications. Additionally, only 5% of recruiters believe that robots will take their jobs. This shows that the vast majority treat it as a real support in the most time-consuming activities of the recruitment process.

To sum up, companies come to us on their own and are happy to talk to us about cooperation opportunities.

MB.: I hope that thanks to your company we will be able to have a real impact on changes that will help people find great jobs and employers the best employees.

KS.: This is the idea that guides us every day of our work on the development of this project!

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^{Krzysztof Sobczak – CEO, co-founder of Emplocity. He is the co-founder of Emplocity and manages key aspects of the company’s operations with considerable persistence and faith in the company’s mission. A few years ago, he gave up his original career path to pursue a direction that really gives him satisfaction. After hours, he is a bit of a dreamer, traveller, runner, promoter of ambitious initiatives – he completed the most difficult ultrarun in the world, the Jungle Marathon (254 km) and collected 130 thousand euros. for a good cause.}

^{The Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL) – a leading organization representing modern business services in Poland. It sets standards and directions for the development of the industry, which is currently the most dynamic branch of the Polish economy, providing employment to almost 250,000 people. people and recording an increase of 15-20% per year. ABSL brings together Shared Service Centers (SSC), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), Research & Development (R&D) centers and companies supporting the development of the sector. ABSL initiates numerous activities aimed at promoting Polish as an attractive country open to foreign investors.}

^{ABSL HR Club – the mission of the HR Club is to integrate the sector in terms of exchanging good HR practices, addressing legal barriers and stimulating the environment for activities that will help companies and the sector to develop, and Poland to become the first choice of location for BPO/SSC operations and a desirable place to work.}

 

“You have to learn how to live.” Interview with Prof. Witold Orłowski m.in. About the fact that in order to understand the modern world, you have to learn to constantly change yourself.

The socio-economic life of Pomerania is concentrated in Olivia Business Centre. Numerous conferences and workshops are held here, which serve the purpose of integration, exchange of knowledge and mutual inspiration. Often, the main topics of such meetings are current trends affecting the development of business and human capital. Olivia is a space for numerous debates and discussions on the most important issues concerning, for example, the current socio-economic challenges faced by the inhabitants of Polish, including Pomerania. Olivia allows you to participate in activities that engage, stimulate and make you think.

On 19 September 2017, Olivia hosted a debate on such an important issue as “Is the euro needed by the Polish economy?”. The organizers of the event were the Gdańsk Business Centre Club Lodge and PwC. The invitation of the Organizers to participate in the meeting was accepted by distinguished guests: Prof. Witold Orłowski, Chief Economic Advisor to PwC, former Economic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland and Prof. Dariusz Filar, economist and lecturer at the University of Gdańsk, former member of the Monetary Policy Council. The hosts of the debate were: Maciej Dobrzyniecki , Vice-President of the BCC Board, Chancellor of the Gdańsk Lodge, Katarzyna Dobrzyniecka, Director of the Gdańsk Lodge and Paweł Ożarowski, PwC Partner. The following took part in the discussion: Michał Makowski, Director of the Gdańsk Repair Shipyard, Rafał Dobranowski, Head of the Drutex Legal Department, Lidia Ziaja, Drutex Shiprepair Yard Manager. Bartosz Ziaja, Vice-President of the Management Board of Ziaja and Robert Raszczyk, Deputy Managing Director of BRANDS Polska sp. Ltd.

^{Fig. Maciej Czarniak / Trojmiasto.pl}

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We invite you to read interviews with Professor Witold Orłowski, macroeconomist, publicist, chief economic advisor to PwC, on the main macroeconomic processes taking place in the world, the policy of Poland’s accession to the Polish Eurozone, the impact of modern technologies on communication and the art of establishing relationships in the world of global business and the ability to acquire the most important competence of the future – openness to the process of continuous learning.

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Monika Bogdanowicz (Olivia Business Centre): Professor, you say about yourself: “I am an economist who tries to understand what is happening in the world”. Just two years ago, we had a different situation in global politics. At the time, you wrote: “Donald Trump’s economic program contains many nice-sounding generalities: lower and simpler taxes, less bureaucracy, more favorable conditions for business. However, there is also a clear proposal to break with the current policy of openness to trade, and especially to break the agreements on free economic cooperation between the US and the countries of America and the Pacific basin. And in the background of all this – the prospect of a trade war with China. If Trump really won the election, and if he really started to pursue such a policy consistently, the effects could be really far-reaching. In short, the world we have become accustomed to, the world of globalisation and the free movement of goods and capital across borders, could end sooner than we think.” ^* How does this scenario stand up to the test of comparison with reality and current developments in the economic arena of geopolitics? Do these forecasts still have the possibility of becoming realistic?

Prof. Witold Orłowski: So far, nothing has really changed. I mean, we still live in a world where the market, after all, is functioning and globalization has not been stopped. The crisis that started a decade ago is not really over yet, we still don’t have a normal economic situation. At the same time, we see political and social changes, which are to a large extent the effect and reflection of economic changes. We can see it in the rise of populism in many countries that we have previously considered immune to such phenomena, starting with the United States. After all, no one there expected that you could win elections by being a populist.

So far, Donald Trump has not accomplished anything great among the things he announced. And which he still can. So we don’t know how the story will turn out. We also don’t know if Donald Trump will be followed by another president, even more radically populist. We live in very difficult and uncertain times. So what the scenarios of the world’s development will be, we will see. There may well be some calming down as well as an escalation of problems.

In Europe, after the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France, i.e. after the defeat of the populists, it has become fashionable to say that “the wave of populism has swept over, now everything will start to calm down, the economy is getting back on track, societies are starting to accept what has happened and we will slowly return to normality”. But we can also imagine a very different political scenario. A scenario in which, for example, in 3 years’ time, Macron’s popularity, which has already plummeted, will be only 5%…

MB: It’s true, today we can observe that President Macron is failing to fulfill his election promises. In the long run, voters may not be able to forgive him.

WO: Then we may have to deal with a repetition of the fear, only even greater. As I mentioned, after President Trump, there may be another, even more populist, not only in the area of declarations, but also in the implementation of his promises.

Thus, there is a scenario of a global, gradual calm, as well as a scenario of growing problems, especially in the Western world.

Add to this the rise of developing countries, especially China and India. This is taking place, as we know, at the expense of the influence of the West, and I would like to remind you that the West is not only a political community. It is also a community of values that we believe to be right. On the other hand, a world in which Western values are on the defensive is one that will be worse from our point of view. A world in which democracy, freedom, human rights, etc., will matter less.

^{Fig. Maciej Czarniak / Trojmiasto.pl}

So, on the one hand, we have global changes that we cannot stop and that in some way limit the role of the West. On the other hand, in the very Western world in which we live, we have the two scenarios already mentioned: calming and rebuilding economic and social harmony versus an escalation of upheavals.

Finally, there are countries like Russia, which have been expected for a very long time to become Western countries and share the same values as the West. At the moment, these countries are moving further and further away from this vision.

MB: Moving on to the areas of European politics closer to us, I would like to ask whether it is realistic for more countries to leave the EU. Do these tendencies have a chance to be stopped? Or will it be possible to maintain the conviction that the benefits of being in the union are superior?

WO: The border dividing Europe into countries that are very involved in integration processes and those, especially in our part of Europe – although I do not mean all the countries of the region – where there is no such involvement is becoming more and more clear and visible. Unfortunately, Poland is one of the countries whose societies are beginning to be less convinced of the sense of European integration.

So the question arises whether everything will calm down and we will return to normality, harmony and cooperation, or whether we will go in the direction of further aggravation of the situation. We don’t know that yet, and both positive and strongly negative scenarios are possible.

In this context, let us also take into account the problems of the world, such as emigration. This is not our choice, but a situation that is likely to occur constantly. In Africa, we are dealing with a continuous increase in population, and progressing climate change will probably “push” its inhabitants out of the continent. Therefore, we may then have to deal with further intense waves of emigration. These are all problems of very high importance.

Some of them are beyond our control, some of them are challenges in which we participate and have prepared for ourselves, being a society belonging to the group of countries of the Western world and the European Union.

MB: We are meeting in a situation where there is no binding decision on the introduction of the euro in Poland. Is the euro necessary for the Polish economy and what benefits could we have if Poland made efforts to join this zone?

WO: The issue of the euro is neglected by our politicians. According to them, it is a dead topic that will never come back, will never be important. However, I can very well imagine that in 5 years’ time the question of the euro will still be an open question. It is possible that our entry into the eurozone may then be paid for with much greater effort than we would put into this process today. Today, we could easily do that if we wanted to.

We are a member of the Union, we are committed to adopting the EU’s common currency, and I am convinced that the euro, whatever the problems it has had, will be a powerful currency and that the euro area will be the nucleus of the European market. I cannot say exactly when this will happen, but I think that sooner or later Poland will want to re-enter the eurozone. Even if today the declarations are such that we are not interested in the euro, and the majority of Poles agree with such a statement.

However, in my opinion, the balance is positive for the introduction of the euro in Poland. The main benefit of the euro for a country like ours is that we have access to cheap capital, with which we can modernise the economy and thus grow faster. If a country uses the euro properly, it will grow faster. Of course, the last decade has also taught us that there are some pitfalls associated with this currency.

MB: Does the economic development of Polish have a chance to catch up with the leading EU countries in the near future?

WO: I don’t know if Poland will catch up with Germany in our lifetime. On the other hand, I believe that, if the right policy is in place, the adoption of the euro would speed up the process. I’m pretty sure of that.

MB: We are at the threshold of a new academic year, so I wanted to ask you about the relationship between education and new technologies. New technologies are becoming more and more bold in this environment in order to make learning time more flexible and reduce spatial distance. Do students who meet only twice a semester in the university spaces lose the opportunity to establish real relationships with lecturers and colleagues or, for example, their potential business partners?

WO: The world is changing and it is always accompanied by assessments of the direction of change. Usually, if we are used to something, we think that the “other” world is an inferior world. We used to be used to face-to-face contact, so we believe that contact via electronic tools and the Internet is also something worse. In this way, we are certainly missing something. On the other hand, however, we also gain something. For example, young people consider it a waste of time not to enjoy the benefits of the online world.

MB: And what about creating relationships, which are so important in business? After all, it will be much more difficult to establish such a real bond in a virtual space?

WO: You have to look for a reasonable compromise and remember that today, if you work in a company that operates in many countries, people have to get used to the fact that a huge part of the contacts take place virtually. Teleconferences are replacing regular meetings and real travel. This is now a standard in most organizations. This does not mean, however, that such real meetings will be a thing of the past. You just have to get used to it and learn to live with both of them and be able to build relationships, even though we are in fact more and more in touch through channels other than meetings in the real world.

I think we’ve all had to deal with a situation where we know someone well, and if we think about it, we come to the conclusion that we don’t even know what that person looks like. We’ve been in touch with her for years, exchanging only emails. Of course, we can use Skype (ed.:laughs).

I don’t think it’s necessary and it’s not worth taking offense at technological changes. You have to learn to get the good out of them. You have to learn how to live.

The world is no better or worse than it was 20 years ago. Now it’s just different. Young people are used to contact mainly through smartphones and the internet. Whether we like it or not, it’s their way of communicating. That’s how they establish a relationship, and that’s certainly how they will continue to do so in the future. All we have to do is accept it.

Of course, sometimes there is a problem when people who are 20-30 years apart talk to each other. There is then a big difference in the ways and in the language of communication. But understanding and acceptance are always important. After all, the world is constantly changing.

Fig. Maciej Czarniak / Trojmiasto.pl

M.B.: I wanted to ask you about the professions that are most needed today. What is worth learning, who to be? What to choose so that a few years of learning are not wasted and you can effectively develop your potential?

W.O.: There are no answers to these questions. There are, of course, professions that we know are and will be needed. For example, a computer scientist. The demand for this profession is growing, and quite rapidly. However, this is such a specialized field that not everyone can be a computer scientist.

In general, a person should be prepared for the fact that he may encounter very different requirements at work. Above all, they must be flexible, able and willing to learn. Secondly, he will probably have to change jobs many times during his lifetime, perhaps even radically. Which means that more important than specific knowledge or a specific profession is the ability to educate and learn continuously.

In other words, specialists in specific fields will always be needed. However, the ability to learn is more important than learning, at a given moment, a specific trade. The truth is that the profession we are learning now may be completely useless in 10 years’ time, because, for example, it will be completely taken over by robots.

MB: So the most important value in modern education is the skilful shaping of young people’s openness to constant learning of new things and openness to the changes brought about by the world?

W.O:. Yes, such an attitude is certainly the surest guarantee and policy for a good future.

MB: Thank you for this inspiring conversation.

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Images courtesy of Trojmiasto.pl. Author of the photographs: Maciej Czarniak.

The full photo gallery from the meeting is available on Trojmiasto.pl

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^{Prof. Ph.D. Witold M. Orłowski – Professor of Economic Sciences, Rector of Vistula University, Chief Economic Advisor to PwC Poland, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw. From 2010 to 2015 he was a member of the Economic Council of the Prime Minister, from 2014 to 2015 he was a member of the chapter of the Economic Award of the President of the Republic of Poland, from 2001 to 2005 he was the head of the team of economic advisors to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He studied at the University of Lodz and Harvard University. From 1993 to 1997 he worked at the World Bank. In the past, he was also an advisor to the Chief Negotiator of Polish’s membership in the European Union, Special Advisor to the European Commission, a member of the Macroeconomic Council of the Minister of Finance, an advisor to many national and international organizations. Author of 11 books and 200 scientific publications, popular economic commentator and columnist for major Polish newspapers. Member of the National Development Council established in 2010. by the late Lech Kaczyński, President of the Republic of Poland.}

^{* Witold Orłowski’s blog, http://witoldorlowski.natemat.pl/187731,donald-trump-i-globalizacja}

“We need to learn how to live”. Interview with Prof. Witold Orłowski about the idea that to understand modern world we need to learn how to change ourselves continuously.

Social-economic life of Pomerania region revolves around Olivia Business Centre. Here, there are many conferences and workshops, which aim is to integrate, exchange knowledge and inspire one another. Very often, keynote topics focus on current trends, which influence business development and human capital. Olivia is a place, where numerous debates and discussions are held, which deal with the most important issues concerning, for example, current social-economic challenges facing Polish inhabitants, including residents of Pomerania region. Olivia enables people to participate in events, which engage, stimulate and make them think.

On September 19, 2017 in Olivia there was a debate about an important issue: “Does Polish economy need euro?”. Gdansk Business Centre Club Lodge and PwC were the organisers of the event. Distinguished guests accepted the invitation of organisers: Prof. Witold Orłowski, chief economic advisor in PwC, former economic advisor of the President of Poland and Prof. Dariusz Filar, economist and lecturer at the University of Gdańsk, former member of the Monetary Policy Council. The following persons were hosts of the debate: Maciej Dobrzyniecki , vice president of the management board of BCC, chancellor of Loża Gdańska, Katarzyna Dobrzyniecka, head of Loża Gdańska and Paweł Ożarowski, head of PwC’s office in Gdańsk. The following persons spoke in the discussion: Michał Makowski, head of Gdańska Sotcznia Remontowa [Gdansk Repair Shipyard], Rafał Dobranowski, head of legal department in Drutex, Lidia Ziaja, export manager in Ziaja, Bartosz Ziaja, vice president of the management board in Ziaja and Robert Raszczyk, deputy managing director in BRANDS Polska sp. Ltd.

We invite you to read an interview with Prof. Witold Orłowski, macroeconomist, publicist, chief economic advisor in PwC, about the main macroeconomic processes occurring in the world, policy connected with Polish accession to the Eurozone, influence of modern technologies on communication and art of establishing relations in the world of global business, as well as about the ability to acquire one of the most important competencies of the future – openness to continuous learning.

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Monika Bogdanowicz (Olivia Business Centre): Professor, you describe yourself in the following way: “I am an economist who tries to understand what is going on in the world”. Only two years ago we had a different situation in global politics. At that time, you wrote: “In Donald Trump’s economic programme there are many pleasant generalities: lower and easier taxes, less bureaucracy, more favourable conditions for businesses. However, there is also a clear suggestion to give up existing policy of openness to trade, especially to break the agreements on free economic cooperation of the USA and the countries of America and the Pacific basin. And in the background – the perspective of trade war with China. If Trump really won the elections and if he really started to consequently implement such a policy, implications could be far-reaching. To put it briefly – the world that we are used to, the world of globalisation and freedom of cross-border movement of goods and capital, could end faster than we may think”.^* How does this scenario stand the comparison with reality and current development of the situation in the economic arena of geopolitics? May these forecasts become real?

Prof. Witold Orłowski: So far, nothing has really changed. I mean the fact that we are still living in the world, in which market is functioning, after all, and globalisation has not been hindered. Crisis, which began a decade ago, is not over yet. We still don’t have a normal economic situation. At the same time, we can see political and social changes, which, to a large extent, result from economic changes and are their reflection. We can notice them on the example of the growth of populism in many countries, which were considered as resistant to such phenomena, starting with the United States. There, nobody expected that you can win elections being a populist.

Up to now, Donald Trump hasn’t implemented anything he had promised. But he can still do that. That is why, we don’t know how this story is going to end. We also don’t know if after Donald Trump there won’t be another president who will be a more radical populist. We are living in very difficult and uncertain times. We will see what scenarios of world development will look like. There may as well come calm times, but also the escalation of problems.

In Europe, after Emmanuel Macron became the president of France, so after populists’ failure, people started to say that “the wave of populism has swept through, now everything is going to start to calm down, economy is turning the corner, societies start to accept what has happened and we will slowly come back to normality”. However, we can as well imagine a completely different political scenario. Scenario, in which, for example, in 3 years Macron’s popularity, which has recently fallen sharply, will amount only to 5%…

MB: That’s true, today we can observe that Macron isn’t successful in fulfilling election promises. In the long term, voters may not be able to forgive him such a failure.

WO: Then, we may have to deal with the rerun of fear, but a much bigger one. As I mentioned before, after president Trump there may appear another one, who is much more populist, not only in the area of declaration, but also in implementing their promises.

Thus, both global and gradual calming down and bigger and bigger problems, especially in western world, may occur.

Let’s add the growing importance of developing countries, I mean China and India. It is happening at the cost of the influence of the West. Here, I would like to remind you that western world is not only a political community. It is also a community of values, which we believe to be right. The world, in which western values will be on the defensive, will be a worse world from our point of view. The world, in which democracy, freedom, human rights, etc. will mean less.

So, on one hand we have global changes, which we won’t be able to stop and which, to some degree, reduce the role of the West. On the other hand, in our western world we have two above-mentioned scenarios: calming down and restoration of economic and social harmony versus the escalation of upheavals.

Finally, we have such countries as Russia, which were expected for a very long time to become the countries of western world and to share the same values. Now, these countries are much more noticeably moving away from this vision.

MB: Moving towards closer areas of European policy, I would like to ask if it is possible that other countries will exit the EU? Is there any chance to stop these tendencies? Or will we manage to maintain the belief that the benefits from being EU member are superior?

WO: The border, which divides Europe into countries, which are very engaged in integration processes and the ones, especially in our part of Europe – however I don’t mean all countries from our region – in which there is no such an engagement, is becoming more and more clear and visible. Unfortunately, Poland belongs to the group of countries, in which societies start to be less convinced of the point of European integration.

That is why, there appear questions concerning whether the situation will be calming down and we will be coming back to normality, harmony and cooperation or whether we will be inflaming the situation. Right now, we don’t know what will happen, so both positive and very negative scenarios are possible.

In this context, let’s take into account also global problems, for example the problem of emigration. This is not our choice, but the situation, which will probably last forever. In Africa, we have to face a continuous population growth and evolving climate changes will be surely “crowding” continent’s residents out. Then we may have to face another, intensive emigration waves. These problems are of significant importance.

Some of them are out of our control, some of them are challenges, in which we participate and which were brought about by us because we are a society, which belongs to the group of western countries and European Union.

MB: We are meeting in a situation, where there is no binding decision concerning introducing euro in Poland. Does Polish economy need euro and which benefits could we have if Poland made the effort to enter Eurozone?

WO: The issue of euro is neglected by our politicians. According to them, it is a dead issue which will never come back and will never be important. But I can perfectly imagine that in 5 years the issue of euro will still be open. Perhaps our entering the Eurozone will then come at a higher cost than now. Today we could do it without much effort, if we only wanted to.

We are the member of European Union and we committed ourselves to adopt a common currency of EU. I am convinced that regardless of problems euro may have, it will always be a strong currency and the Eurozone will be the core of European market. I can’t state unequivocally when it will happen, but I think that sooner or later Poland will want to enter the Eurozone once again. Even if today we declare that we are not interested in euro and the majority of Poles agree with such a statement.

Overall, in my opinion, there is more good than bad in introducing euro in Poland. The main benefit for such a country as ours is that we have an access to cheap capital, with the help of which we can modernise economy and develop faster. If a country uses euro in the right way, it develops faster. Of course, the last decade taught us also that there are some traps connected with this currency.

MB: Can economic development of Poland soon draw level with leading EU countries?

WO: I don’t know whether Poland will draw level with Germany in our lifetime. However, I think that in the case of using right policy, entering Eurozone would accelerate this process. I am rather certain of that.

MB: We are on the threshold of new academic year, that is why I would like to ask about the relations between education and new technologies. New technologies are more and more boldly entering this environment to make time devoted to learning more flexible and reduce spatial distance. Do students, who visit universities only two times in a semester, lose the chance to establish real relationships with lecturers, mates or, for example, with their potential business partners?

WO: The world is changing and this is always accompanied by the assessment of direction of changes. Usually, if we are used to something, we think that “other” world is worse. In the past, we were used to a direct contact, that is why we think that contact via electronic tools and the Internet is something worse. In this way, we certainly lose something. On the other hand, we also gain something. For example, young people claim that not benefiting from on-line world is a waste of time.

MB: What about creating relations, which are very important in business? In the virtual world, establishing real relations will be much more difficult.

WO: You need to find a reasonable compromise and remember that today, if you work in a company, which conducts business activity in many countries, people have to get used to the fact that most of the contacts are virtual. Teleconferences are replacing regular meetings and real travels. This is now a standard situation in most of the organisations. However, it doesn’t mean that real meetings will go out of date. We just need to get used to both of them and learn how to live with them, as well as be able to establish relations, despite the fact that actually more and more contacts are maintained in a different way, not during meetings in real world.

I think that everyone has had such a situation – we know somebody well, but if we think for a while, we may come to a conclusion that we don’t know what this person looks like. We keep in touch with such a person for many years, only by exchanging e-mails. However, we can also use Skype (ed.: laughter).

I think that we don’t have to feel offended by technological changes and it is not worth it. We need to learn how to derive good things out of them. We need to learn how to live.

The world is not better or worse than 20 years ago. Now it is simply different. Young people are used to keeping in touch, especially with the help of smartphones and the Internet. Whether we like it or not, this is their way to communicate with each other. In this way they establish relationships and for sure they will continue doing it in the future. We can only accept it.

Of course, sometimes there arises a problem, when persons between whom there are 20-30 years of difference are talking to each other. In such a situation, there appears a huge difference in ways and language of communication. But always understanding and acceptance are the most important. After all, the world is continuously changing.

M.B.: I would like to ask you about the most needed occupations. What is worth learning, who is it good to be? What should we choose to avoid the situation, when some years of studies go in vain and how can we effectively develop our potential?

W.O.: There is no answer to such questions. Of course, there are some professions, which are and will be needed. For example, IT specialists. The demand for such a profession is increasing rapidly. However, this is such a specialised area that not everyone can be an IT specialist.

On the whole, everyone should be prepared for that, that various requirements may wait for them at work. That is why, you need to be flexible, know how to learn and want to learn. Secondly, during the whole life, you will probably have to change jobs many times, maybe even radically. It means that the ability to learn continuously is more important than having specific knowledge and profession.

In other words, specialists in certain areas will be always needed. But the ability to learn is more important than mastering a certain profession at a particular time. The truth is that profession, which we are now learning, can be completely useless in 10 years because, for example, it will be conducted by robots.

MB.: So shaping the openness to continuous learning and openness to changes carried by the world in young people’s minds in a skilful way is becoming the most important value in modern education?

W.O.: Yes, such an attitude is surely the best guarantee and policy for a good future.

MB: Thank you for this inspirational conversation.

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Photos by courtesy of Trojmiasto.pl. The author of the photos: Maciej Czarniak.

Full photo gallery from the meeting is available on the website Trojmiasto.pl

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^{Prof. Ph.D. Witold M. Orłowski – professor of economics, rector of Vistula University, chief economic advisor in PwC Polska, as well as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw. In the years 2010-2015 he was a member of the Economic Council of the Prime Minister, in the years 2014-2015 he was a member of the committee of Economic Award of the President of the Republic of Poland, in the years 2001-2005 he was a chief economic advisor of the president Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He graduated from University of Łódź and Harvard University. In the years 1993-1997 he worked in the World Bank. In the past, he was also an advisor of the Chief Negotiator responsible for Poland’s EU accession, Special Advisor to the European Commission, member of the Macroeconomic Council of the Minister of Finance, advisor to many national and international organisations. The author of 11 books and 200 scientific publications, popular economic commentator and columnist of major Polish newspapers. A member of the National Development Council established in 2010 by the late Lech Kaczyński, President of the Republic of Poland.}

<sup>* Witold Orłowski’s blog,

http://witoldorlowski.natemat.pl/187731,donald-trump-i-globalizacja</sup>

 

The labour market in Pomerania is developing dynamically, and its improving statistics make it quite a challenge to attract new candidates. HR specialists also have to work hard so that those who are already employed do not start looking for a new employer.

However, what can be enjoyed by employees is a big headache for employers and company HR departments. This means that it will be increasingly difficult to recruit new staff, and it will also not be easy to retain those who are already employed for longer.

That is why HR specialists’ heads are already full of ideas to make the company’s image more attractive and effectively improve working conditions. You will be able to find out which of them are effective and which are worth implementing in the corporate reality during a conference dedicated to all HR professionals – Yes, We Can!

We talk to Krzysztof Kunicki, one of the panelists of the event and the organizer of the project, about the needs of HR specialists in Pomerania, what skills are a guarantee of getting a great job, why the greatest strength of every company are properly selected, talented people and why it is worth being a participant of the event at Olivia Business Centre.

Monika Bogdanowicz (Communication Olivia Business Centre): Who needs good HR today? How did you come up with the idea to organize the “Yes, We Can! ?

Krzysztof Kunicki (Job Office, Gdańsk Labour Office)*: Who needs good HR today? I think that every company, and certainly every company, that wants to acquire valuable employees and develop further thanks to them. The idea to organize an expert debate came from the needs of HR professionals themselves.

Maybe it will be a simplification, but today many companies equate good HR with, for example, a high salary, additional health insurance or a multisport card. Not so long ago, such solutions were effective in attracting candidates, but today all of this is more and more often treated as a standard. In this situation, HR specialists ask themselves what else can be done, how to effectively attract the best and keep them for longer. And that’s exactly what we’d like to talk about – the most interesting trends and proven ideas for better HR.

MB: What does the current situation on the labour market look like, looking from the very centre of the business environment, where the Job Office and the Talent Development Centre – the organisers of the event – are located?

KK: The labour market is an area that is changing very dynamically. Not so long ago, companies recruiting specialists for various types of positions had no problems with finding potential employees, they did not always meet all the requirements of employers, but they were. Today, unfortunately, things are different.

It is very difficult to find candidates, even for positions that do not require high qualifications. This is also strongly felt by international corporations and the so-called A large business which, due to its specificity, is looking for candidates with a certain amount of knowledge and skills, such as language skills.

MB: What are the biggest challenges faced by people involved in recruitment and development of human capital in companies in Pomerania?

KK: There are several challenges. When it comes to the most important things, we can easily point to two – searching for the right employees and keeping them in the company for longer. It is no secret that the conditions on the labour market are currently dictated by job seekers, the best can freely choose from the offers, so the task of an HR specialist is not easy, he must attract candidates more effectively than the competition will. However, the challenges do not end there.

We live in a very mobile world, especially young people have a different approach to employment than, for example, their parents, who may have worked in one company all their lives. Today, changing the workplace is no longer unusual, so the role of the HR department is to develop such an offer that the best employees want to stay in the company for as long as possible.

MB: What elements of the program do you recommend to the conference participants and what is the distinguishing element of your event?

The uniqueness of each conference, debate or discussion panel is always evidenced by people who want to share their knowledge and experience. This case is no different. We invited a group of really interesting personalities who have been dealing with human resources management in an international environment for several years, in a word, real experts in their field. This is certainly how Konrad Lipski from State Street Bank or Ewa Mandryk, who developed her career m.in, should be described in this way. at Intel.

Of course, there will be more interlocutors, but I think that all the speakers share a common motto, no matter what difficult challenges we face, we can do it anyway, in a word, Yes, We Can!

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^{Krzysztof Kunicki: Master of Law, administrator, employee of the Gdańsk Labour Office, business client advisor at JOB OFFICE. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk and completed a number of specialist trainings in the field of recruitment and selection, coaching and career counselling. He also specializes in administrative law and proceedings. At work, she deals with the labour market, recruitment and selection of candidates for individual positions. She develops and implements promotional and marketing strategies for GUP and cooperates with business clients on a regular basis. In her work, she focuses on professionalism, improving the quality of services and comprehensive advice in the recruitment and selection process.}

^{Job Office is located in the Olivia Six building of the Olivia Business Centre complex, in the Olivia CONNECT space (13th floor). The most important pillars of JOB OFFICE’s activity are: pre-recruitment, comprehensive information on the services offered by the Gdańsk Labour Office, advice on the selection of the best form of employment for employees and promotion of e-services of the Labour Office. JOB OFFICE is a partner for all companies from the IT, BPO, SSC sector, which currently offer a very wide range of career development opportunities. As part of the JOB OFFICE offer, employers can take advantage of tailor-made services, resources and knowledge in the field of HR and a full range of financial forms of support. Job Office specialists respond to the diverse needs of employers. More: https://www.gup.gdansk.pl/}

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“Yes, We Can!” conference, 6 September 2017, Talent Development Centre, Olivia Business Center (ground floor in the Olivia SIX building).

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