93 percent of Ukrainian migrant workers work with their hands, not their heads
The vast majority of Ukrainian guest workers in European countries work mainly in the field of physical rather than intellectual labor.
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The president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Companies for International Employment, Dmitry Voskoboynikov, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, citing sociological data, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“36 percent of Ukrainians who have traveled abroad to work at least once over the past five years worked in Poland, 25 percent worked in Russia, the rest - Italy, the Czech Republic, and so on. 93 percent of Ukrainian labor migrants, regardless of the country of residence, are people who work in the field of physical labor, people who work with their hands,” the expert said.
According to him, European countries need bankers, psychologists, economists, and marketers, but “the only problem that Ukrainian labor migrants face is total ignorance of foreign languages.”
“Accordingly, a highly qualified person who could not find a job in Ukraine is forced to go to Poland to pick strawberries. This is really sad, because in the West, I repeat, there is a huge demand for intellectuals, and the problem of Ukrainians is that, unfortunately, they do not know languages. What areas did they work in? Construction sites, agricultural work, looking after the elderly. The IT sector, according to our sociology, is about three percent of respondents who traveled,” noted Voskoboynikov.
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