BANK JOBS IN INDIA

State Bank of India will be soon recruiting for nearly 30,000 Clerical & 5000 Officer positions to fill the vacancies created by employee retirements & addition of branches.This was recently announced by Mr.Anup Banerji, Deputy Managing Director- SBI.

New Branches :According to the press release, State Bank of India recruited 22,000 employees & added opened 600 branches during 2009-10 taking the total number of branches to 12000. SBI is looking to open around 1000 new branches in the fiscal year 2010-11 across India, as the bank eyes an annual growth rate of 25 percent in the next few years. Hence with the opening of newer branches, a considerable number of employees would have to appointed.

Recruitments : Mr.Banerji also said that, SBI will soon announce recruitments for around 30,000 Clerks & 5000 Officer openings.Of these proposed 5000 openings, 2000 positions would be mainly created for rural banking.article posted at www.bankexamsindia.com

** Currently ON : Just as the management said, the SBI recruitment for 4500 PO has started & will close on March 2nd 2010. So candidates can expect the Recruitment of clerks notification within the next few months.

Karnataka Bank has released the results for Clerical Recruitment 2009.The written test for these posts were held in the month of January 2010.

Karnataka Bank conducted a written test on January 3rd 2010 as part of its Clerical Recruitment.Although the number of vacancies were not mentioned during the recruitment, around 2500 candidates have been shortlisted for the Interview process.The roll numbers of the selected

candidates have been displayed on the bank website.Download the list from the bank website here.

Interview : The Interview is scheduled to be held from the month of March across major cities.The dates & cities are also provided in the selection list.See below for some important posts on Interview,

State Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India & recruitments by SBI often creates a buzz among candidates aspiring for bank jobs.We received many questions asking if they can apply for both vacancies in SBI (1717 & 4500 Probationary Officers).Here is a quick glance of both notifications,so you can understand better.

1717 SBI Associate Banks PO Recruitment – This recruitment for 1717 Probationary Officers vacancies were only for Associate Banks of SBI.(last date to apply is over)The 6 associate banks are

1) State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), 2) State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH),

3) State Bank of Indore (SBIND), 4) State Bank of Mysore (SBM),

5) State Bank of Patiala (SBP), 6) State Bank of Travancore (SBT) .

* Selected candidates through the recruitment exam will be posted in any of these banks only, according the preference given during registration & NOT in SBI.

* The online registration to apply for these posts

SBI Recruitment for 4500 PO – This is the latest advertisement for recruitment into State Bank of India & the last date to apply online is March 2nd. Both these recruitments are different from each other. Now,coming to the questions asked by our readers – posted at www.bankexamsindia.com

Q: I have already applied to SBI 1717 PO vacancies.Can I apply to this 4500 PO also?

A: Yes, If you are eligible & have the qualifications mentioned for the 4500 Officers SBI recruitment – you can apply. Both are different recruitments.

Q: Number of attempts has been given for both SBI jobs.What are they?

A: Yes. SBI has limited the number of attempt by a candidates appearing in their PO exams. According to their notification ,

** for SBI 4500 PO vacancies , ‘General category candidates who have appeared on 4 occasions in the recruitment exam of POs for SBI are not eligible to apply’. For Gen(PWD – 4 chances), OBC & OBC (PWD) (7 chances) candidates, chances are likely to counted from the current exam.

We hope our readers would have been cleared of their doubts on attempts & difference between the 2 SBI recruitments. You can also read the ongoing State bank of India recruitment for 4500 probationary officers,if you are looking for more details.

Candidates are requested to read the job advertisements posted by banks, completely before applying.