Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Bank of Baroda (BOB) Probationary Officers (PO) BOB recruitment 2011

Bank of Baroda BoB recruitment 2011 announced vacancies for 900 Probationary Officers (PO) in the rank of Junior Management Grade/Scale 1 and has called for applications from the public online.
Candidates are advised to apply only online and requested to carefully go through the detailed advertisement in Bank’s website www.bankofbaroda.com before applying online
Vacancies: The total number of vacancies and reserved vacancies given hereunder, are provisional and which may vary depending upon future needs of the Bank
SC-142; ST-72; OBC-236; others-450; Total-900
Important dates

Website link open: From 05th January, 2011 to 25th January, 2011
Date of written test: 13th March, 2011
Payment of fees at BOB branches: From 05th January, 2011 to 25th January, 2011
Fees deposited after the last date i.e. 25th January, 2011 will not be entertained by the bank
Emoluments: Selected candidates will be on probation for a period of one year. They will draw salary in the scale of Rs 14500-600x7/18700-700x2/20100-800x7/25700 applicable to junior management grade/scale I
They will also be eligible for DA/HRA/CCA, as per rules in force from time to time. At present, initial monthly emoluments of junior management grade/scale I officer, including DA/HRA/CCA are approximately Rs 23,000/- in a metropolitan centre
Eligibility criteria
Qualification (as on 01.01.2011): Degree in any discipline from a recognized university; or any equivalent qualification recognized by central govt; should possess a certificate in computer literacy (proficient in MS Office, Basic applications, Internet usage etc)
Age relaxation: SC/ST candidates by 5 years; OBC candidates by 3 years; in the case of Ex-servicemen and commissioned officers including ECOs/ SSCOs by 5 years for selection through written test and interview, subject to ceiling, as per govt guidelines; all persons who have ordinarily been domiciled in Kashmir Division of J&K state during 01.01.1980 and 31.12.1989 by 5 years; PwD by 10 years
Nationality/citizenship: A candidate must be either (i) a citizen of India or (ii) a subject of Nepal or (iii) subject of Bhutan or (iv) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or (v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the govt of India. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the examination/interview conducted by the Bank but on final selection, the offer of appointment may be given only after the govt of India has issued the necessary eligibility certificate to him

Selection procedure

Selection procedure: Selection will be on the basis of performance in written test and interview. The details of written test and interview are as under
Written Test: Eligible candidates will be required to appear for written test comprising objective test on (i) reasoning (ii) quantitative aptitude (iii) general socio economic and banking awareness (iv) English language (v) marketing aptitude
There will be negative marking for wrong answers in the objective test. Further details regarding the written test i.e. number of questions, duration etc shall be advised along in the Acquaint Yourself Booklet sent with the call letter
The Bank reserves the right, if required to hold a second stage of written test on the basis of order of merit in the written examination of first stage, as referred above. If the second stage of written test is held, the subsequent process of interview and further process would be on the basis of order of merit of the second stage examination
The written test will be held at the following centres and the address of the venue will be advised in the call letters
List of written test centres is given below
Agra, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Allahabad, Amritsar, Anand, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Baroda, Bengaluru, Bhagalpur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Bulsar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ernakulam, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mehsana, Mumbai, Muzaffarpur, Mysore, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Smabalpur, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam
Request for change of centre of examination shall not be entertained
Bank reserves the right to cancel any of the centres and/or add some other centres, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility etc. Bank also reserves the right to allot the candidate to any of the centres other than the one he/she has opted for
Interview: Those short listed candidates in the order of ranking in the written test, as per the cut-off marks determined by the Bank shall be called for an interview and/or group discussion and the decision of the Bank, in this regard shall be final
Pre-examination training (for SC/ST/PwD/minority community candidates only): It is proposed to impart pre-examination training to a limited number of candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD/minority communities at Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai centres at the discretion of the Bank. An eligible candidate who wishes to avail of pre-examination training should fill in the relevant column in the online application. All expenses regarding traveling, boarding, lodging etc will be borne by the candidate for attending the pre-examination training programme at the concerned centres
Call letters for the written examination: The date of the written examination is tentatively fixed as 13th March, 2011. However, it will be intimated in the call letter along with the centre/venue for the examination, well in advance of the date of the written examination
Call letters for the written test will be sent by ordinary post to the eligible candidates to the address given in the online application. An eligible candidate who does not receive the call letter by 07th March, 2011 should contact the offices at the address of the respective centres (details of which will be released in Bank’s website on 05.03.2011)
Candidates can download their call letters from 08th March, 2011 to 12th March, 2011 from the Bank’s website

How to Apply for Bank of Baroda PO Recruitment 2011

How to apply: Candidates are required to apply online through website www.bankofbaroda.com. No other means/mode of application will be accepted
Candidates are required to have a valid personal email ID. It should be kept active during the currency of this recruitment project. Bank may send call letters for written test, interview etc through the registered email ID. Under no circumstances, he/she should share/mention email ID to/or of any other person
In case, a candidate does not have a valid personal email ID, he/she should create his/her new email ID before applying online
Applicants are first required to go to the bank’s website www.bankofbaroda.com and open the link recruitment. Thereafter, open the recruitment notification entitled Bank of Baroda officers recruitment project-2011
Take a print of the entire recruitment notification, including the fees payment challan
Fill in the fee payment challan in a clear and legible handwriting in block letters
Go to the nearest Bank of Baroda branch with the fee payment challan duly filled in and pay, in cash the appropriate application fee in account number 29040200000198 with Bandra Kurla complex branch, Mumbai, in favour of Bank of Baroda officers’ recruitment project-2011-12. The amount of fee to be paid is indicated below
Amount of fees/postage (non-refundable) SC/ST/PwD Rs 50/-; General/OBC/Ex-servicemen Rs 300/-
Obtain the counterfoil (applicant’s copy) of the fee payment challan duly received by the Bank with (a) branch name and code number (b) transaction ID (c) date of deposit and amount filled by the branch official
Candidates are now ready to apply online by re-visiting the recruitment page of the Bank’s website and going to the sub link titled online application for Bank of Baroda officers recruitment project-2011. Click on this sub link will open up the appropriate online application format
Carefully fill in the necessary details from the fee payment challan in the online application form at the appropriate places and submit the same online
Original counterfoil of the fee payment challan will have to be submitted with the call letter at the time of written test. Without counterfoil of the fee payment challan, the candidates will not be allowed to appear in the written test. Candidates are, therefore, advised to keep 3 photocopies of the fee payment challan for future use
The name of the candidate or his/her father/husband etc should be spelt correctly in the application as it appears in the certificates/mark sheets. Any change/alteration found may disqualify the candidature

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