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BankEdge Seeking Franchise Partners Across India To Expand Its Training Centres
BankEdge, India’s most promising and leading banking and finance Academy, is seeking franchise partners across India. It is looking at expanding its training centres in order to reach out to more students during the current year.
The academy has shaped the careers of more than 15000 young graduates who are presently employed in entry-level job roles in the Retail Branch Banking, Back End Operations, Customer Acquisition and Customer Service job roles.
Santosh Joshi, CEO of BankEdge, said, “We are looking for entrepreneurs, who can become franchisee partners for life to impart skills for graduates who would be placed at leading private sector Banks. We have been receiving an excellent response from all over the country where entrepreneurs want to partner with us and take this forward.”
BankEdge is a valued training and recruitment partner for India’s leading private sector banks & financial institutions. These include HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Indusind Bank, RBL Bank, Bandhan Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Bank, AU Small Finance Bank, IIFL, Fino, Indiabulls, Bajaj Finserv, Mahindra Finance, L& T Financial Services, SREI Infra, etc.
Programs offered by BankEdge
Currently, BankEdge provides Job-ready short duration programs beginning from 1 month to 6 months, which has produced over 25,000 students across the country in the last 5 years. These programs offer a blend of core domain knowledge and required skill-sets, including documentation, technology familiarity and customer handling.
It is now aiming to foray into the long-duration Post Graduate Programs backed by International Certification for creating specialized manpower for various domains such as Trade Finance, Credit Analysis, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Fintech, etc.
The Academy for Banking and Finance bridges the skills-gap in the banking industry to transform the candidates into job-ready professionals.
“It is observed that a fresh graduate is not found to employable. So ‘Acquiring Skills’ is a major pre-requisite for any job today. Industry wants a skilled workforce. We want to bridge this gap in the banking and finance sector where currently there is an estimated demand for 1.6 million jobs,” Joshi stated.
Growth Plans
BankEdge is aiming to double the number of its training centres from the current over 60 centres to 150 centres Pan-India.
The academy is targeting to train and deploy more than 50,000 students in the next five years at leading private sector Banks and financial companies through the series of short and long duration certification training programs.
