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Current Openings#
State Bank of India provides many opportunities for young graduates as well as experienced professionals for accelerated career growth. Discover all the opportunities below to join the largest bank of the country and work in an exciting, motivating, meritocratic and truly collaborative environment.
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RECRUITMENT OF CIRCLE BASED OFFICERS#
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ONLINE REGISTRATION OF APPLICATION & PAYMENT OF FEES: FROM 09.05.2025 TO 29.05.2025
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Eligible candidates are required to register on-line for the recruitment process which will be held in 4 phases viz.
(i) Online Examination
(ii) Screening and
(iii) Interview
(iv) Local Language Proficiency Test
The details of vacancies are as follows#
ELIGIBLITY CRITERIA#
A) Essential Academic Qualifications#
Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification
recognised as such by the Central Government including Integrated Dual Degree (IDD).
Candidates possessing qualifications such as Medical, Engineering, Chartered Accountant,
Cost Accountant would also be eligible.
Note: The date of passing eligibility examination will be the date appearing on the mark sheet or
provisional certificate issued by the University/ Institute. In case the result of a particular
examination is posted on the website of the University/ Institute, a certificate issued by the
appropriate authority of the University/ Institute indicating the date on which the result was posted
on the website will be taken as the date of passing.
(B) Age Limit: (As on 30.04.2025): Not below 21 years and Not above 30 years as on
30.04.2025 i.e. candidates must have been born not later than 30.04.2004 and not earlier than
01.05.1995 (both days inclusive).
Relaxation in Upper age limit#
(C) Experience (Post Essential Academic Qualification) as on 30.04.2025#
Minimum 2 years’ experience (Post Essential Academic Qualification Experience) as on
30.04.2025 as an officer in any Scheduled Commercial Bank or any Regional Rural Bank as
listed in Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India.
(D) Local Language# The candidates applying for vacancies of a particular Circle, should be
proficient (reading, writing and understanding) in any one of the specified opted local
language of that Circle (mentioned against each Circle). The test of knowledge of specified
opted local language of the applied circle will be conducted as a part of selection process. It
will be conducted for provisionally selected candidates (based on performance in online test,
Screening and interview) before joining the Bank. Candidate who fails to qualify this test will
not be offered appointment. Candidates who produce 10th or 12th standard mark sheet/
certificate evidencing having studied the specified opted local language of the applied circle
as one of the subjects will not be required to undergo the language test.
SELECTION PROCEDURE#
The selection process consists of Online Test, Screening and Interview.
(A). Online Test: Online test will consist of Objective Tests for 120 marks and Descriptive
Test for 50 marks. The Descriptive Test will be administered immediately after conclusion of
the Objective Test and candidates will have to type their Descriptive Test answers on the
computer.
(i) Objective Test:
The duration of objective test is 2 hours and it consists of 4 Sections of total 120 marks.
There will be separate timing for every section.
(ii) Descriptive Test:
The duration of Descriptive Test is 30 minutes. It will be a Test of English Language
(Letter Writing & Essay) with two questions for total 50 marks.
There will be no sectional qualifying marks. There is minimum qualifying marks on aggregate
and the minimum qualifying marks will be as decided by the Bank.
Penalty for Wrong Answers:
There will be no penalty for wrong answers marked in Objective Tests.
Sectional Marks will not be maintained for Online Examination.
(B). Screening#
Online application and documents of candidates, who qualified in online examination, will be
placed before the Screening Committee.
The Screening Committee constituted by the Bank will examine whether the candidates fulfil
the required eligibility criteria of experience. The Committee will match the job profile
submitted by the candidates (certified by their existing/ previous employer(s) with whom they
are/were employed) with the job profile of Scale-I Generalist Officer of the State Bank of
India. In case their job profile does not match substantially or is different than the job profile of
Scale-I Generalist Officer of State Bank of India, then the application of the candidate will be
summarily rejected.
(C). Interview#
Interview will consist of 50 marks. Candidates will have to score minimum qualifying marks in
interview to be considered for final selection. The minimum qualifying marks will be decided
by the Bank.
(D). Final Selection#
The candidates will have to qualify both in Online Test and Interview separately. Final Merit
list is prepared for candidates who qualify both in Online Test and Interview. The marks
obtained in Online Test, both in the Objective Test and the Descriptive Test, will be added to
the marks obtained in Interview for preparing the final merit list. Final merit list would be
prepared based on normalization of marks scored in Online Test and Interview with 75:25
weightage respectively.
Marks secured by the candidates in the Online Test (out of 170 marks) are converted to out
of 75 marks and Interview scores of candidates (out of 50 marks) are converted to out of 25
marks. The final merit list (Circle wise and category wise) is arrived at after aggregating (out
of 100) converted marks of Online Test and Interview. Selection will be made from the top
ranked candidates in merit list prepared on Circle wise and Category wise.
(E). Local Language Proficiency Test# The candidates applying for vacancies of a particular
Circle, should be proficient (reading, writing and understanding) in any one of the specified
opted local language of that Circle (mentioned against each Circle). The test of knowledge of
specified opted local language of the applied circle will be conducted as a part of selection
process. It will be conducted for provisionally selected candidates (based on performance in
online test, Screening and interview) before joining the Bank. Candidate who fails to qualify
this test will not be offered appointment. Candidates who produce 10th or 12th standard mark
sheet/ certificate evidencing having studied the specified opted local language of the applied
circle as one of the subjects will not be required to undergo the language test. Final selection
will be subject to Qualifying in test of specified opted local language, where applicable, as
detailed above.
Result Publication#
Results of candidates called for Interview, Final Result etc. will be made available on the
Bank’s website.
ONLINE EXAMINATION CENTERS (Tentative List)#
