Outsourcing helps drive economic growth at a time many EU economies stumble

February 12, 2013 1. Wide of business meeting 2. Close of Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland 3. Wide of meeting February 10, 2013 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland: "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." February 12, 2013 5. Various of Javier in meeting 6. Close of colleague drawing diagram February 10, 2013 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland: "Here, I am recovering my dignity and Poland is giving me another chance to have a normal life, let's say." 8. Mid of Bofarull Marques showing framed photograph of his family 9. Close of photograph February 11, 2013 10. Wide of international call centre, employees seated at desks 11. Close, pull focus of employee 12. Various of man working on his computer 13. Close of fingers typing on keyboard February 12, 2013 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marek Grodzinski, Head of Capgemini Business Centre in Krakow, Poland: "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." February 11, 2013 15. Wide of Luxsoft office, employees working on computers 16. Close high angle of woman working on her computer 17. Close of employees February 10, 2013 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Przemek Berendt, Vice President of Global Marketing at Luxsoft: "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." February 12, 2013 19. Various of Javier in meeting 20. Close of marker pen in hand February 10, 2013 21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Javier Bofarull Marques, Spanish worker now employed in Poland: "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." February 11, 2013 22. Close of Krakow Business Park sign 23. Mid of people getting off the train 24. Wide of people walking down the stairs STORYLINE: Spaniard Javier Bofarull Marques is one of the many people who have left Western European countries in search of work in Poland in recent years. A 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. Poland's economy has grown for 21 years straight, while some Western European countries are trying to recover from their most crippling recession in generations. The 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. "Here I am recovering my dignity," explained 44-year-old Bofarull Marques. "Poland is giving me another chance." Bofarull Marques landed a job with an international firm as a senior financial accountant after a fruitless eight-month search in Barcelona. It was not the scenario he imagined when he first moved to Krakow in 2006 for a girlfriend. The relationship eventually ended, but along the way he bought an apartment, made friends and witnessed Poland's economic transformation. He moved back to Spain in 2011 but only managed to find work for a short time before ending up with the mass of unemployed. But executives says it goes far beyond that. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/339025ca1c793f2806926bbc4b1fc837 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork