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New Delhi: Big news for bank job aspirants. The State Bank of India (SBI) has revealed that the bank is putting its best foot forward to hire around 3,500 officers to run the operations and enhance the service delivery. In an interview with PTI, SBI Deputy Managing Director (HR) & Chief Development Officer (CDO) Kishore Kumar Poludasu said.
When asked about the Specialist Officers (SO), Kishore Kumar Poludasu stated that approximately 1,300 officers have been shortlisted for the IT and cybersecurity sector. The Bank has recruited a total of 505 candidates in June for the post of Probationary Officers (PO). It has also released SBI PO recruitment 2025 notification for a total of 541 vacancies. Candidates will be shortlisted for the PO posts based on a three-stage process: preliminary, mains, and a psychometric test, followed by interviews.
"Around 3,000 circle-based officers are now being considered. This should get concluded in the current financial year," said Kishore Kumar Poludasu, PTI quoted as saying.
Earlier this year, SBI Chairman C S Setty also announced that the bank is planning to hire around 18,000 across various departments. Of which, around 13,500 will be clerical posts, and the remaining will be PO and locally based officers. This year, SBI has released the recruitment notification for a total of 13,455 junior associates and 505 POs.
Poludasu also revealed that the Bank is committed 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.
The bank is also putting its best foot forward to bridge the gap and achieve its medium-term goal of 30 per cent women in its workforce.
As of now, 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.
