Singapore, Sept. 16 -- Financial institutions are seeing a healthy take-up of jobs and traineeships as the finance and insurance sector is projected to expand this year, despite a climate of retrenchments and economic gloom.
OCBC Bank has filled 90 per cent of its 3,000 positions on offer this year, which include 2,100 full-time roles and 900 traineeship and internship spots.
In the full-time roles, 60 per cent of hires are experienced professionals, with the rest fresh graduates. More than half of the experienced hires are from non-finance sectors.
About 60 per cent of the traineeship and internship positions, in areas such as corporate banking, data and technology, have been filled.
Mr Ernest Phang, OCBC's head of corporate servic...