Union Bank of India has released the detailed notification for recruitment of 1500 Local Bank Officers.

(A) Important Dates :

Online Registration: 24.10.2024 to 13.11.2024

(B) Important Points:

• This post is equivalent to PO Scale I.
• Number of vacancies: 1500.
• Vacancies are in 10 states and are announced state wise.
• Candidates can apply for the vacancy of one state only.
• Merit list will be drawn state wise.
• The selected candidates will be posted within the selected State for the first 10 years of their service or up to their promotion to SMGS IV Grade, whichever is earlier.
• Selection Procedure: Single Online Exam---->Interview

(C) Eligibility : (as on 01.10.2024)

Educational Qualification: Graduation in any discipline from a recognized University or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.

Knowledge of Reading, Writing and Speaking of Regional Language of the State / UT against the vacancies for which a candidate wishes to apply, is essential. To ascertain the candidate’s familiarity with the Regional Language of the State / UT, a Regional Language Test will be conducted before final selection. Candidates not found to be proficient in the Regional Language Test would be disqualified.

Age : 21 years and Maximum Age: 30 years.

(D) Selection Procedure :

The selection process may comprise of Online Examination / Group Discussion (if conducted)/Screening of applications and / or Personal Interview depending on the numbers of applicants/eligible candidates. The Bank reserves the absolute right to decide as to whether to use all or any of these modes for selection for the notified posts.

Online Examination / Test:

(I) Structure of the Examination:

Descriptive Paper of English Language (Letter writing & Essay) may be evaluated by an automated scoring mechanism for identifying features related to writing proficiency. This scoring mechanism is duly validated and evaluates proficiency of test takers in writing in English Language in an objective manner as the mechanism does not have any in-built biases for evaluating responses.

MARKS OBTAINED IN THE ONLINE EXAMINATION WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLISTING FOR INTERVIEW AND ALSO FOR FINAL MERIT LISTING.

Language Proficiency Test (LPT):

The candidate must have Proficiency (reading, writing and speaking) in the Local Language of the State applied for. Candidates shortlisted in the Online Examination will be required to qualify Language Proficiency test, failing which they will not be allowed to appear for Personal Interview and thus their candidature will not be considered for further selection process.

However, candidates who produce 10th or 12th standard marksheet/certificate evidencing having studied the specified local language of the applied State as one of the subjects will not be required to undergo the language proficiency test.

Personal Interview (PI):

Merit list of candidates based on the marks obtained by them in Online Examination will be prepared in descending order for the respective categories i.e. SC/ST/OBC/EWS/General. Candidates securing the minimum qualifying marks stipulated for Online Examination and ranking sufficiently high in the order of merit shall be called for personal Interview.

For interview the candidates will be called in the ratio of 1:3 as against the number of vacancies. However, Bank may modify the said ratio at its own discretion.

The total marks allotted for Interview are 100. The minimum qualifying marks in interview will not be less than 40% (35% for SC/ST/OBC/PWBD candidates). The weightage (ratio) of Online Exam and Interview will be in the ratio of 80:20 respectively. The combined final score of candidates shall be arrived at on the basis of scores obtained by the candidates in the Online Examination and Interview.

PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS (Applicable to Online Examination):

There will be penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is marked by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

(E) Application Fee :

GEN/EWS/OBC: Rs 850

For SC/ST/PwBD Candidates: Rs.175

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