Banks speed recruitment to meet expansion plans

Many banks have recently announced they will recruit a large number of personnel to meet their business expansion plans in 2019.
Banks speed recruitment to meet expansion plans ảnh 1A Sacombank office (Photo: Sacombank)

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Manybanks have recently announced they will recruit a large number of personnel tomeet their business expansion plans in 2019.

Sai Gon Thuong TinJoint Stock Commercial Bank (Sacombank) announced its plan to recruit 800 newstaff for transaction offices and branches nationwide. The positions to befilled are for individual and corporate customer relationship managers,consultants and tellers.

Leaders of Nam A JointStock Commercial Bank (Nam A Bank) said that this year the bank would recruit500 to 700 staff to serve its new offices. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)approved the bank’s plan to open five more branches and 30 transaction officesthroughout the country between October 2018 and October 2019.

Vietnam InternationalJoint Stock Commercial Bank (VIB) also announced a plan to find candidates formore than 250 positions in Hanoi, HCM City andnearly 30 provinces and cities nationwide.

According to a leaderof VIB, the bank must find a lot of personnel quickly because it has moved intonew locations with more potential customers. VIB is also focusing on insurance,so most of the new employees will be assigned to this segment.

Other banks such asVietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank), JointStock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) and Ho ChiMinh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank) are also carryingout aggressive recruitment on the scale of several dozen people to hundreds ofnew workers.

Industry insiderssaid banks have been expanding their networks and deploying new businessactivities, so the demand for workers is growing. A recent survey by the SBVshowed more than 76.7 percent of credit institutions have plans to recruit morepersonnel in 2019.

Last year’s data alsoshowed the total staff of 20 banks (including their subsidiaries) increased bynearly 17,000 people, up more than 8 percent from the end of 2017.

The three banks thatrecruited the most workers were Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank(VPBank) (more than 3,600 people), Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB)(more than 2,500) and Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) (more than2,100). — VNS/VNA

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