Have you applied to any other areas apart from banking?
Here off course your answer will hold some other finance or sales and marketing careers – insurance or accountancy, altogether these careers should have skills related to banking.
Tell me about an experience in which you had to use tact?
Tact and diplomacy are important qualities in retail banking – the customer is (almost!) always right. You may have to tell an account holder diplomatically why they can’t have a loan for example, without provoking them into moving their account elsewhere.
To answer this type of question, think through everything you have done in the last five years – school, university, sports, clubs, societies, travel, vacation jobs etc. and try to think of situations where you had to demonstrate this and other qualities – do this before your interview.
If you have completed a number of employer application forms, then you should already have done this as this type of question is now common on application forms.
What significant trends do you see in the future for our industry?
This is your chance to shine. You will be fully familiar with the economic situation as it relates to banking or how recent legislation affects it. How will you be familiar? Because you will have done your research and preparation properly.
You will have talked to people about the employer, you will have been reading trade magazines, journals and newspapers, and you will have poured over company brochures, annual reports or anything else you can get your hands on direct from the employer.
You could talk about tele-banking, the limited range of services now being offered by the supermarket banks, the effects of technology and competition and much more.
The Employment Files in the Careers Service library are an obvious first place to look. The Internet is also an excellent source of information. Be ready to have more than one significant trend to discuss!
SBI Interview Questions:
Miss. XYZ says ,she was asked about -
* Family background.
* Willing to relocate/ work in rural areas or not?
* Reason for doing MBA after B.Tech (candidate is B.Tech,MBA graduate)
* My MBA was in HR & Finance so they asked abt HR and Subjects in Finance
* About Financial Institutions, Share market, Mutual Funds,Nifty, BSE etc.
* My SWOT analysis (Strength,Weakness,Opportunity,Threats)
* About my hobbies (in resume)
* Names of RBI Governor, President, VP & Deputy chairman of Planning commission
* Asked how will i judge a candidate if he/she is suitable for a job?
* Few questions on RBI,SBI, Recession, Subprime crisis etc.,
* What is written on a 100 rupee note and whose signature are there on it?
ABC shares his experience as,
* Tell something about SBI
* Questions related to hobbies
* What are monetary policies
* Repo rate, SLR ,Addhar (The new name of UID Project)
* Why did you apply for clerk job in bank?
* Five years down the line u will be like to be at?
* Will the IPL controversy put a bad image to IPL?
* About Cut motion (recent issue in parliament)
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Other Questions
Why banking that also clerk after MBA?
why do u choose banking sector?
what is probability officer and its duties and responsibilities?
Describe your Typical Day?
What significant trends do you see in the future for our industry?
