The State Bank of India (SBI) plans to bolster hiring personnel across its operations and services sectors nationwide in the coming months.
Besides already having recruited 505 Probationary Officers (POs) in June and around 1,300 officers in the IT and cybersecurity space, the advertisement for 541 other PO vacancies is out and applications have already been received, said the bank’s Deputy Managing Director (HR) & Chief Development Officer (CDO), Kishore Kumar Poludasu.
The country’s biggest lender is in the process of hiring around 3,500 officers to bolster its operations and enhance service delivery across the country.
“Around 3,000 circle-based officers are now being considered. This should get concluded in the current financial year,” the senior official said.
The recruitment for POs is through a three-stage process: preliminaries, mains, and a psychometric test and interviews.
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Earlier this year, SBI’s Chairman, C S Setty, announced that the bank’s total recruitment across various categories would be about 18,000, of which, around 13,500 will be clerical recruitment, and the remaining will be probationary officers and locally-based officers.
In the first quarter, the bank announced the recruitment of 13,455 junior associates and 505 POs to enhance customer experience at its branches across the country.
Poludasu also said the lender has devised a strategy to boost gender diversity, aiming to increase its women workforce to 30 per cent within five years.
“If we talk about frontline staff, women are almost 33 per cent, but as a total, if you see, they account for 27 per cent of the total workforce. So, we will be working towards improving this percentage so that the diversity gets further improved,” he said.
SBI has a total staff strength of more than 2.4 lakh, one of the highest in any organisation in the country and the highest in the banking industry.
He further said that the bank is committed to creating a workplace where women thrive at all levels, and that, through targeted programmes, such as ‘Empower Her’, SBI fosters leadership, work-life balance, and dignity at work.
Highlighting some of the women-centric measures undertaken by the bank, Poludasu said the bank provides creche allowance for working mothers, runs a family connect programme, and offers training programmes to assist women employees returning from maternity, sabbatical, or extended sick leave.
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