4000 engineers joining SBI to clerical posts
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 04 October 2010, 15:25 IST
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Mumbai: Over 3,800 graduates and 200 post graduates are about to join State Bank of India (SBI) in the clerical category. Following an advertisement by SBI where they had declared vacancy for over 27,000 posts in the clerical cadre, 38 lakh aspirants from across the country applied for the jobs online, 28 lakh of them appeared for the written exam. Out of these, 88,000 candidates faired successfully and 27,000 were selected for an interview. From the 27,000 candidates who have been shortlisted finally, 3,800 are graduate engineers, 200 are postgraduates in different branches of engineering, 8,200 are women and 2,000 are ex-servicemen. "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," said a senior SBI official, who was surprised to see such a response from technically qualified candidates. After the global economic downturn, the job market does not seem to be that favourable for aspiring candidates. The unavailability of jobs has made young and potential candidates to re think about their career. "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," said an engineering graduate. "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," said an HR professional who was shocked to see engineering graduates taking up clerical assignments.