The State Bank of India is set to hire 8904 junior associates for its customer support and sales function, which includes 251 backlog vacancies for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates.
According to The Indian Express report, the recruitment by SBI will be done for deployment across 17 circles of the bank, covering all states and union territories as well as Delhi NCR. “Candidates can apply for vacancies in one state only,” SBI’s central recruitment and promotion department said in the notice.
Bank of Baroda also currently has 1,047 openings. Earlier this month, IDBI Bank had called for applications for nearly 950 positions, many of them in specialised roles, after the bank was taken over by Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India.
“Candidates can appear for the test only once under this recruitment project. The candidates applying for vacancies of a particular state should be proficient (reading, writing, speaking and understanding) in the specified opted local language of that state.” – TIE report.
In FY19, the SBI advertised for over 260 positions for specialist cadre officers on contract basis, some of which already recruited.
Apart from Assistant Managers, Specialist Cadre Officers, executives on contract and Chartered Accountants, IDBI Bank is also looking for executives to take up the roles of Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Treasury Head, Chief Technology Officer, Human Resources Head and Data Analytics Head.