Ganzhou Bank, a prominent financial institution, has recently announced its recruitment for a Chief Information Officer (CIO). The bank is looking for candidates under the age of 45, with an exception for males who can apply up to 48 years old, according to a report from Mobile Payment Network on September 6, 2024.
The announcement, made on September 3, 2024, states that the bank requires candidates to be under 45 years old (born after September 9, 1979) with exceptional overall qualities. For males, the age limit can be moderately extended to 48 years old. Additionally, candidates must have at least six years of experience in information technology, including at least four years in a senior management position and two years in financial work.
The bank also emphasizes that individuals who have previously held significant or key positions in information technology management within state-owned banks, joint-stock banks, or independent legal person banks, and have experience in financial work, are preferred.
It is worth noting that the registration period for this recruitment is only six days, ending on September 9, 2024.
This recruitment drive is not the first of its kind for Ganzhou Bank in 2024. In January, the bank had already released a social recruitment announcement, seeking candidates for positions including data analysts, data platform developers, database administrators, cloud computing engineers, information security engineers, and automated test engineers.
In terms of campus recruitment, Ganzhou Bank also initiated the 2024 financial technology personnel campus recruitment in January, aiming to recruit 20 people for positions in the financial technology department of the headquarters department.
The push for digital transformation has led to numerous regional banks publicly recruiting CIOs. For instance, Changsha Bank, another regional bank, released a recruitment announcement on March 7, 2024, seeking a CIO. The bank required candidates to be under 50 years old (born after January 1, 1974), have at least six years of experience in information technology, and have held a management position in the information technology department of a financial institution for at least four years.
In July 31, 2024, Changsha Bank’s board of directors agreed to appoint Wu Sheng as the CIO, whose appointment has yet to be approved. Wu, born in June 1978, has previously served as the deputy general manager and general manager of the information technology department, as well as the general manager of the IT planning department at Changsha Bank. Currently, he is the general manager of the financial technology department.
This move to publicly recruit a CIO was followed by an internal promotion, as the position was ultimately filled by an existing employee of the bank.
In 2023, according to an incomplete count by Bank Technology Research, eight banks publicly recruited CIOs and other senior technology line executives, including Heilongjiang Rural Credit Union, Jiangxi Rural Credit Union, Guangxi Autonomous Region Rural Credit Union, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Rural Credit Union, Inner Mongolia Bank, Yangtze River Bank, Tianjin Bank, and Henan Rural Commercial Bank Union. Five of these banks belonged to rural credit institutions, while three were city commercial banks, all of which were small and medium-sized banks.
The talent issue in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized banks is a matter of concern behind these recruitment efforts. Most of these recruitment drives have clear age requirements, generally around 50 years old.
In 2022, several banks, including Minsheng Bank, Sichuan Tianfu Bank, Xi’an Bank, Jiangxi Bank, and Mongolian Bank, publicly announced the recruitment of CIOs. City commercial banks were also quite active in these recruitment drives.
The above information is based on existing knowledge and facts, and the article is written in a logical manner without contradictions.
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