Recently SBI, the country's largest commercial bank gave an advertisement for clerical category. In the advertisement bank had declared vacancy for over 27,000 posts in the clerical cadre, in response to this around 38 lakh aspirants from across the country had applied for the jobs online, 28 lakh of them appeared for the written exam. Out of these 88,000 candidates passed the written exam and 27,000 were selected for an interview.
From the selected 27,000 candidates, 3,800 are graduate engineers, 200 are post graduates in different branches of engineering, 8,200 are women and 2,000 are ex-servicemen.
A senior SBI official was surprised to see such a response from technically qualified candidates said, "It was the biggest such exercise for us. The response to our advertisement was huge. It took a little longer to complete the selection process."
After the global economic crisis, though the job market has picked up still it does not seem to be that favorable for aspiring candidates. The young and potential candidates are finding difficulty in getting job which has led them to rethink about their career. An engineering graduate said, "I come from a leading engineering college. When I applied for the SBI job, there were virtually no vacancies in the manufacturing or IT sector due to recession. I had to seriously look at other options. After all, SBI offers a safe job."
An HR professional who was shocked to see engineering graduates taking up clerical assignments said, "The country boasts of having a large number of engineering colleges. However, it does appear that we are producing engineers without accessing the manpower requirement."
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