There is good news for aspirants who are waiting or preparing for banking or tech related jobs. India’s largest government bank, State Bank Of India is in the process of hiring about 12,000 employees. The lender is offering information technology and other roles.
SBI’s chairman Dinesh Khara, said that these new recruits will be given some exposure to the banking systems and then will be shifted towards roles like IT and other associate positions. Majority of the roles will be related to engineers in the tech sector.
SBI Chairman On Jobs In Bank
Khara said, “Around 11,000 to 12,000 employees are in the hiring process. These are general employees, but we actually are having a system where at our associate level and officers’ level, around 85 per cent of them are engineers,” adding, “some exposure to understand banking and thereafter, we start channelising them into various associate roles and some of them will be channelised in IT,” as reported by IANS.
Khara has said that the bank is hiring them as probationary officers and associates, with no intentional preference for engineers only.
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Following initial training, which includes banking fundament the POs (numbering over 3,000) and associates (exceeding 8,000) will be assigned to various business roles within the Bank.
The recruits will also be for deployment in the bank’s operations subsidiary and expanding the branch network.
Interview For SBI Chairperson Position
FSIB, the headhunter for directors of state-owned banks and financial institutions, is scheduled to interview eligible candidates for the post of SBI chairman on Tuesday, PTI sources said.
Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) will interview the eligible MDs of the bank to select a replacement for Dinesh Khara, who will be superannuating on August 28, when he turns 63, the upper age limit for the SBI Chairman position.
As per the convention, the chairman is appointed from a pool of serving managing directors of SBI, the country’s largest lender. FSIB would recommend the name and the final decision would be taken by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
