Canara Bank PO notification: Here are the dates, vacancies, eligibility rules

Online registration for Canara Bank PO started on January 9, 2018, and the deadline ends on January 31. The online test date (tentative) is on March 4

Canara Bank is inviting applications for a specially designed one-year training course leading to a postgraduate diploma in banking and finance (PGDBF) either through Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, or NITTE Education International Pvt Ltd, Mangalore. Candidates will be appointed as probationary officers in Canara Bank after the completion of the course.

For Canara Bank PO candidates should have a degree (graduation) with a minimum of 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PWBD) or equivalent grade, in any discipline from a university recognised by the government of India or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by the Central government. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

For the same, we bring to you all the details regarding the Canara Bank PO notification: important dates, vacancies, eligibility, selection procedure, exam pattern, application fee, course fee and salary.

Canara Bank PO Recruitment 2018: Important dates

The online registration has started on January 2018

Online registration ends: January 31, to register, click here

Date of online test (tentative): March 4

Here are the vacancies

Are you eligibile?

•Educational qualification: A degree (graduation) with a minimum of 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PWBD) or equivalent grade, in any discipline from a university recognised by the government of India or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by the Central government.

•Age: Minimum 20 years – Maximum 30 years, ie a candidate must have been born not earlier than January 2,1988, and not later than January 1,1998 (both days inclusive)

Selection procedure and exam pattern

The selection will be carried out in three stages. These are mentioned as follows:

•Online objective test

•Group discussion

•Interview

The exam pattern of the online objective test is as shown below.

•There will be negative marking of 0.25

•Both sectional and overall cut-offs exist

Application fee

The details of the course and the fee involved (for the course) are shown in the following table.

•The course comprises of nine months of classroom studies and three months internship at Canara Bank’s branches /offices.

•This one-year full-time PGDBF course will be conducted either at Manipal Global Education Services Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru campus, or NITTE Education International Pvt Ltd, Mangalore campus.

•The programme is fully residential during nine months classroom studies and the selected candidates should necessarily stay in the campus.

Candidates will be selected for admission to the course at either of the above two institutes through a selection process comprising of online objective test followed by group discussion and personal interview. On successful completion of the course, candidates will be awarded with postgraduate diploma in banking and finance (PGDBF)” from that institute and the candidates would be offered appointment in the bank as probationary officer in junior management grade scale-I.

Salaries

The pay-scale of a Canara Bank PO is given as follows:

Hope this helps.

All the best!

The author is the CEO and Co-founder at Oliveboard, an online preparation portal for MBA, banking and government exams.