Our reporter Li Bing Yu Junyi
To stabilize employment, protect people's livelihood, and for fresh graduates, many banks have successively released campus recruitment plans for the fall of 2023 in the past few days.
"Securities Daily" reporters noticed that the banking industry represented by the six state-owned behaviors has expanded tens of thousands of recruits to implement the "six stability" and "six guarantees" decisions, which not only broadened the scope of recruitment, but also lengthened the recruitment timeline.
In addition, judging from the data disclosed by various banks, with the popularization of digitalization and smart devices, fintech talents and talents with complex professional backgrounds are still popular.
People in the industry generally believe that the trend of recruitment and expansion of banking institutions this autumn is obvious, which reflects that while fulfilling the social responsibility of ensuring employment, they have further optimized the structure of their own talents, and have accumulated a solid talent guarantee for the medium and long-term strategic development of various departments of the bank. .
Expansion of multiple banks
In 2022, the number of college graduates in my country will reach 10.76 million, breaking the 10 million mark for the first time. The overall employment situation of fresh graduates has become a hot topic of discussion.
According to a reporter from the Securities Daily, as of September 14, more than 20 banks, including the six major state-owned banks, have successively issued announcements for autumn school recruitment.
Many banks said that they will actively respond to the call of the national "six stability" and "six guarantees" policies, fulfill the responsibility of financial institutions, and will continue to expand the scale of campus recruitment.
According to incomplete statistics by reporters, this year's Autumn Recruitment Bank is expanding the number of recruits.
Taking the six state-owned banks as an example, the Agricultural Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Bank of China, which have disclosed the number of specific recruitment positions, have planned to recruit more than 70,000 people in total.
What is even more encouraging for graduates is that most banks have relaxed the age requirements and restrictions for new students.
The autumn campus recruitment of major state-owned banks in 2023 will not only recruit fresh graduates from colleges and universities in 2023, but also recruit graduates from previous years who have not yet achieved initial employment due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Some institutions have even relaxed the enrollment period for college graduates in 2020. .
For example, Bank of China's autumn recruitment announcement shows that for fresh graduates from domestic and foreign institutions, some institutions can recruit financial industry practitioners aged 32 and below and in-service employees within three years of graduation (required that their family or living foundations are in the recruiting position. City).
University degree or above, some institutions in areas with poor student sources (mainly county-level institutions) can be relaxed to post-secondary or college degree (requires family or living basis in the city where the recruiting position is located).
At the same time, some banks also give priority to the recruitment of poor college students.
For example, China Construction Bank said that in the process of campus recruitment, priority should be given to poor college students under the same conditions.
The county-level institutions of some branches recruit college village officials and "three branches and one support" personnel whose employment period has expired, and open special registration channels.
"In order to alleviate the impact of the epidemic on the job market, many institutions are currently expanding their recruitment." An insider in the banking industry said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Daily that the trend of digitalization will continue to replace basic jobs, and the expansion of recruitment is also to accumulate talents reflect.
"The continuous expansion of the number of large state-owned banks in autumn recruitment and the appropriate relaxation of the recruitment threshold of some institutions are the performance of banking institutions in fulfilling their social responsibilities. At the same time, expansion of recruitment can also accumulate talents for banks." Wang Pengbo, a senior analyst at Broadcom, told Securities Daily reporter said.
Diversified recruitment projects "attack"
From the point of view of position setting, financial technology and professional talents with compound background are still more sought after by banks.
The reporter combed and found that most of the bank's recruitment announcements showed a "thirst for talent" attitude towards financial technology talents, and at the same time, there were not too many restrictions on the majors of graduates.
Many banks have even set up fintech-related job training programs and plan to recruit “seeds” to cultivate fintech talents by themselves.
For example, ICBC's 2023 campus recruitment notice specially set up recruitment plans for "star management trainees" and "3000+ technology elite positions", aiming to create a team of compound, innovative and practical technology talents; China Merchants Bank set Minsheng Bank has specially set up the Minxin Financial Technology Talent Program.
He Song, a partner of CGL's digital finance team, a high-end talent hunting agency with a global presence, told the Securities Daily reporter, "In fact, banks need more business and technology-oriented talents. They need to understand cutting-edge technologies and have a solid technical foundation. Interdisciplinary talents who understand banking business processes and can apply technology to banking business will boost the technological transformation of banks."
At the same time, the reporter noticed that many banks have launched special recruitment projects based on their own development and business needs.
For example, the Agricultural Bank of China launched the “ABC Jingsui” rural revitalization special recruitment in the 2023 autumn school recruitment, recruiting counterpart talents for 162 national rural revitalization key sub-branches within the jurisdiction of the county; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has set up financial generalists in the recruitment. - Special for minor languages.
Based on serving the "Belt and Road" initiative, we will reserve professionals for overseas institutions.
"The special recruitment carried out by the bank according to its own development plan reflects the differentiated positioning of different banks in the direction of development strategy, and seeks the focus of operation according to their own advantages, which more clearly defines the characteristic development path of transformation, and better construction and training belong to Its own talent system, as a breakthrough to enhance market competitiveness." Wang Pengbo emphasized to reporters.
Regarding the demand trends of future banking institutions in recruiting talents, He Song said that with the development of mobile payment, Internet and other financial technology applications, the offline recruitment needs of banks will be further reduced. Online banking, intelligent wealth management marketing, etc. are the future financial industry. The trend of low-tech and high-cost jobs will be gradually eliminated, and banks will continue to reduce labor costs, improve labor productivity efficiency, and increase profitability in terms of employment trends.
She also emphasized that there are certain deficiencies in the talent pool and training of financial institutions for digital transformation, "such as following the trend and launching e-commerce APPs, convergence of online services, and lack of transformative technological progress. It is suggested that subsequent banking institutions should encourage financial While better integrating with technology, we should increase investment in technology research and development and the growth and retention of talents.” (Securities Daily)