SHB has announced a plan to find candidates for 120 new positions in its transaction offices nationwide.(Photo SHB) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Many banks have announced the recruitment of alarge number of personnel to meet business expansion plans in 2020.
After recruiting more than 800 staff late last year, Sai Gon Thuon gTin JointStock Commercial Bank (Sacombank) announced plans to continue recruitinghundreds of new workers for offices and branches nationwide.
The positions to be filled are for individual and corporate customerrelationship employees, consultants and tellers.
Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) also announced a plan to findcandidates for 120 new positions in its offices nationwide in its firstrecruitment drive this year, also mainly for customer relationship, consultantand teller positions.
Vietnam Prosperity Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) has followed suit,recruiting for hundreds of positions in Hanoi and HCM City. Applications fortwo positions of individual clients and tellers would be accepted until the endof this month.
Other banks such as Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank(Techcombank), Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TPBank), OrientCommercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB), Joint Stock Commercial Bank for ForeignTrade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) and Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investmentand Development of Vietnam (BIDV) are also carrying out large recruitmentcampaigns.
Agribank expects to recruit 700 to 900 personnel nationwide at the end ofMarch.
The latest survey of the banking industry’s business trends released by theState Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s Department of Forecasting and Statistics earlierthis year showed the recruitment demand of banks in 2020 was high.
Specifically, though 58.3 percent of banks said that they had increased labourin the last quarter of last year, 23.3 percent of banks stated that there wasstill a shortage.
With that demand, along with the expansion of business activities in 2020, upto 55.3 percent of credit institutions planned to continue recruiting moreemployees in the first quarter of this year and 73.8 percent of creditinstitutions expected to increase the number of employees throughout the year.
Last year’s data also showed the total staff of 20 banks increased by nearly7,000 people, up more than 3.7 percent from the end of 2018.
The two banks that recruited the most workers last year were VietnamInternational Commercial Joint Stock Bank (VIB) with 1,746 people andVietcombank with 1,696 people./.
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