SBI Recruitment 2024: SBI is planning to recruit 10,000 new employees in the current financial year 2024-25. This recruitment will be done on different posts.
SBI Recruitment 2024: If you are preparing for a government job, especially if you want to get a job in a bank, then you are going to get a chance to work in the country’s largest government bank. Actually, State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to recruit 10,000 new employees in the current financial year 2024-25. The special thing is that apart from PO and clerk, there will be recruitment on many other posts as well. The bank will do this new recruitment to promote common banking needs and its own technical capability. The bank has made significant investments in technology to provide seamless customer service as well as strengthen its digital channel.
SBI Chairman CS Shetty said in a conversation with PTI-Bhasha, “We are strengthening our workforce on the technology side as well as the general banking side. We have recently announced the recruitment of about 1,500 technology people at the entry level and slightly higher levels.”
Planning recruitment for these posts too
He said, “Our technology recruitment is also on specialized jobs like data scientists, data architects, network operators etc. We are recruiting them for a variety of jobs on the technology side… So, overall, our current year requirement will be around 8,000 to 10,000 people. People will be added on both specialized and general sides.”
The total number of employees of the bank as of March 2024 was 2,32,296. Out of this, 1,10,116 officers were working in the bank at the end of the last financial year. When asked about capacity building, Shetty said that it is a continuous process and the bank retrains and upgrades existing employees to meet the emerging needs of the customers.
Technology will have to be worked on according to the needs
He said, “Customer expectations are changing, technology is changing, digitization is being widely adopted, therefore, we are constantly providing new skills to our employees at all levels.” He said that the bank provides special skill development in some specific areas to meet the growing needs of the customers and provide better banking experience.
As far as network expansion is concerned, Shetty said that SBI plans to open 600 branches across the country in the current financial year. By March 2024, SBI has a network of 22,542 branches across the country.
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