Evaluation of On-The-Job Competencies & Training Effectiveness-A Study of Junior Management Grade Bank Officers

Trainings and the Innovations in trainings have always challenged the Industry and Academia alike. There are numerous training engagements between industry-academia to make the job seekers productive on first-day as they recruit. Further, the objective of aligning trained manpower to organizational goals with minimal time and cost of the corporate has kept the creators of demand - supply at their toes in the market place.

Banking Industry is no exception. Coupled by dual manpower challenges; financial inclusion through expanding branch networks and positioning the right candidates from among the new generation recruits to help them achieve the underlying business objective. Recently, many Public and Private sector banks tied with Educational Institutions to design a training program exclusively to train the new generation recruits who are Job fit. from the first day of joining them. These training engagements are customized and tailor-made to train the new recruits in the areas of various job related competencies, such as Product, Process and Behavioral. This research paper has made an attempt to evaluate the OTJ competencies exhibited by the new recruits and thus measure the training effectiveness of the engagement.