Bankedge, March 10, 2016: India’s leading banking training institute, today announced the launch of its 11th Training Centre– the Banking Academy at 1st Floor, Dinkar Heights, 1201E Fergusson College Road, Opposite Fergusson College, Shivaji Nagar, Pune. This centre will provide quality training to Young Graduates who are in the age group of 21 to 25 years and aspiring to get into Banking Operations or Back End Operations related Entry Level Job Roles. These opportunities are for Fresh Graduates. BANKEDGE – A first of its kind, the Banking Academy aims to build a pool of modern Banking professionals for Private Banks. BANKEDGE has designed comprehensive Banking Training Programs that build competencies on 3 parameters – banking domain, application and customer-service needed by new-age banking professionals. These are short-term (90 to 120 days) training programs that enable young graduates to pick up banking skills, understand the technology used in day to day banking, prepare them for customer service job roles and also enable them to understand the work pressure that comes with the bank job, improves their communication and presentation skills and also help them retain the job that they get into.
Further these Programs delves deeper into banking to enable students to understand the concept of money and banking, the role of banks, various verticals in the banking industry, various products and services offered by them and the channels used to deliver the same. It also enables the learner to understand the functions of the RBI, impact of globalization on the banking sector and the role of technology in the banking industry, among various other topics.
Admissions to BANKEDGE Programs are through a short Aptitude Test and Personal Interview. The selected candidates are provided with Provisional Offer letters at the time of enrolment and after successful completion of the program they are given Guaranteed Interview Opportunities with Leading Private Banks and Financial Organizations.
After completion of the program students will join a Private Bank as an Officer who are supposed to work at retail branch and back end banking locations spread across Pune and Mumbai region. These Officers play the crucial role of representing the bank to first time customers and hence need to have a pleasant personality, good communication skills and thorough knowledge of the bank’s offerings along with an understanding of the customer’s requirements.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Santosh Joshi, C.E.O., BANKEDGE said, “This is a unique initiative where we have designed training programs that will exclusively cater to the growing needs of professionally trained manpower for India’s Leading Private Banks. Having empowered over 5,000 professionals to take on exciting careers in Banking and Financial Services Sector, we continue with initiatives to develop a trained resource pool for the fast evolving BFSI industry.”
Also present on this occasion Pune Center Director Mr. Meghdoot Karnik shared his views about Bankedge Training Programs. Meghdoot is a Qualified Accountant with more than 20 years of post-qualification experience. He is engaged in financial training, soft skills training and business consulting. He is involved in conducting training sessions on Finance and Financial Markets, IFRS, US GAAP, Accounting Standards, Financial Literacy, Leadership, Talent Management and Performance Management. He added, “After twenty years of corporate life, I find myself part of a finishing school. I took up this assignment simply because, somewhere along the way, there was a desire to ensure that ‘India Shining’ reaches Bharat.
I think there has to be a skill development workshop for people in corporates to tune their recruitment policies for the needs of Bharat. That is when the gap will be bridged.”
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
