A new hope for the new year. The spring recruitment of banks in 2022 has quietly begun. On February 6, the reporter of Beijing Business Daily found that at present, the head offices of many banks and provincial branches including Agricultural Bank Of China Limited(601288) , Postal Savings Bank Of China Co.Ltd(601658) , Bank Of Communications Co.Ltd(601328) , China Merchants Bank Co.Ltd(600036) , China Minsheng Banking Corp.Ltd(600016) , Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co.Ltd(600000) , Industrial Bank Co.Ltd(601166) , Bank Of Nanjing Co.Ltd(601009) are successively opening the spring “competition for talents” to lock in high-quality talents in advance. Under the background of contactless, artificial intelligence and big data wave reshaping the industry, banks’ demand for front-line teller posts is decreasing, and technical talents are still very popular.
2022 Bank spring Recruitment “shot”
On February 6, the reporter of Beijing Business Daily found that at present, the head offices of many banks including Agricultural Bank Of China Limited(601288) , Postal Savings Bank Of China Co.Ltd(601658) , Bank Of Communications Co.Ltd(601328) , China Merchants Bank Co.Ltd(600036) , Hua Xia Bank Co.Limited(600015) , China Minsheng Banking Corp.Ltd(600016) , Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co.Ltd(600000) , Industrial Bank Co.Ltd(601166) , Bank Of Nanjing Co.Ltd(601009) and branches in all provinces are successively starting the spring “people grabbing war”.
From the time node, the bank’s spring recruitment fair is generally concentrated from February to May. In order to seize talents, some banks have started the online application of spring recruitment as early as January 2022. A human resources manager of a large state-owned bank introduced to the Beijing Business Daily that the bank’s conditions for those who are about to graduate from the spring recruitment are that fresh graduates of domestic colleges and universities in 2022 should graduate before July 31, 2022 and obtain graduation certificate, degree certificate and employment registration certificate; Fresh graduates of overseas colleges and universities shall obtain the academic degree certificate and the academic degree certification issued by the study abroad service center of the Ministry of education before August 2022, and must be employed for the first time after graduation.
“In addition, in order to meet the needs of business development, our bank will recruit an appropriate number of fresh graduates of 2021. If the position is a local source of students, priority will also be given.” The above-mentioned human resources managers of state-owned banks said. According to the job requirements, the training direction of bank fresh student customer managers is usually marketing professionals engaged in Inclusive Finance, supply chain finance, science and innovation finance, green finance, people’s livelihood finance, investment banking, transaction banking, cross-border banking and other fields; The training direction of wealth account managers is marketing professionals engaged in wealth management, customer operation and management, asset allocation and other fields; The operation post is mainly engaged in all kinds of network settlement business and marketing services, and the training direction is the professional talents of branch operation management.
Different from the more conventional customer managers and financial managers, the demand of banks for tellers is much lower than before, and most of these recruitment needs are distributed in small and medium-sized urban branches of large and medium-sized banks and regional banks. For example, a recruitment notice issued by a local agricultural commercial bank mentioned that “the bank’s network institutions are all over urban and rural areas, and it is a local financial institution with the most prominent contribution to supporting agriculture and tax payment in the county. Now it needs recruitment due to business development”. The requirements of this rural commercial bank for contract system comprehensive tellers are: in principle, it requires majors in finance, finance and accounting, computer, secretary, law, marketing, economic management, Chinese language and literature, news communication and so on.
“technology flow” talents are still popular
In recent years, with the continuous progress of financial technology, banks are transforming into smart banks and digital banks. In addition to the establishment of financial technology subsidiaries, the demand for financial technology talents is also increasing. IT architecture experts, operation and maintenance development architects, financial technology post it direction and other relevant talents have become the focus of competition.
A city commercial bank located in the Yangtze River Delta is recruiting financial technology trainees from the head office. The training direction is financial technology composite professionals who are familiar with banking business and proficient in IT technology. The bank requires that the professional direction of fresh graduates need to cover software development, platform research and development, intelligent research and development, data analysis, data development, data governance, software testing Information security technology and other fields. In the future, he will be engaged in the design, development, optimization, operation and maintenance of application system (including Internet financial system) and big data system, or in the bank wide data asset management, data governance, big data capacity-building, etc.
On the recruitment website, some banks are hiring financial technology talents with high salaries. The reporter of Beijing Business Daily found that the average salary of fresh graduates in the direction of front and rear end architects, java development posts and data analysis is about 15000-40000 yuan, compared with that of customer managers, financial managers The salary and welfare of ordinary tellers is about 8000-10000 yuan, which is significantly higher.
Referring to the distribution of posts for the bank’s spring recruitment in 2022, Liao Hekai, an analyst of Jinle function, said in an interview with the Beijing Business Daily that one of the most significant changes in bank recruitment in recent years is the reduction in the number of traditional posts such as tellers and the increasing demand for compound talents such as financial technology, which is the inevitable result of the intelligent development of the industry.
Sun Yang, director of the financial science and technology center of Suning Financial Research Institute, also pointed out that at present, the competition for financial science and technology talents in banks is very fierce. At the same time, the financial science and technology subsidiary of banks has also become a salary highland in the market. In order to further attract and retain talents, banks can make more efforts from the aspects of project bonus, equity incentive mechanism of core backbone and strengthening the construction of corporate culture.
strengthening scientific and technological means is the top priority
In the context of contactless, artificial intelligence and big data wave reshaping the industry, banks are “thirsty for talents” for financial science and technology talents. In the recruitment announcement, many banks also expressed their vision of building a scientific and technological composite talent team. “Candidates with complex professional backgrounds such as economics, finance and information technology are preferred.” A large state-owned bank described this in the recruitment announcement.
A joint-stock bank also said in the recruitment announcement that it can grow into financial technology experts in the future by selecting and applying statistical modeling, data mining, machine learning and other technologies to financial scenarios.
Facing the current fierce market competition, small and medium-sized banks have spared no effort in expanding talent and resource investment. A local city commercial bank also pointed out in the announcement that “focus on cultivating compound professionals who are proficient in IT technology and familiar with bank operation and management, and grow into scarce information technology experts, financial technology experts, Internet finance experts and technology management talents in the banking industry in the future”.
Wang Jianhui pointed out that based on the analysis of existing small and medium-sized customers, the bank should provide more diversified services through the development of new industries. The overall investment of banks in the field of financial science and technology is increasing, and strengthening scientific and technological means is an important starting point for small and medium-sized banks to seek survival space in the future competition.
