Wema Bank, on Wednesday, said it had employed 69 new graduates who recently completed the company’s Bankers-in-Training Scheme.

Wema Bank, in a statement, said this was a demonstration of its unalloyed support for the growth and advancement of the careers of Nigeria’s teeming youths.

It said that the Bankers-in-Training scheme was an intensive 14-week programme to help develop well-rounded bankers who were taken through the rudiments of the profession before being employed by the bank.

“With an average age of 27, this latest cohort were trained at the financial institution’s Purple Academy in Lagos, a general assessment to test for knowledge, comprehension and numeracy skills was done,” it said.

According to the statement, they also went through technical assessment as the bank sought to refine their skills for modern and innovative banking requirements before integrating them into the system.

It said the assessment would allow the bank know if they could put their knowledge into practice in Wema Bank and ALAT departments.

Commenting on the exercise, Chief Human Resource Officer, Ololade Ogungbenro, expressed delight with the quality of trainees, describing them as bright with an aptitude for banking.

She added that Wema Bank would not relent in developing and enlarging Nigeria’s talent pool of bankers with adequately trained people who would further develop the sector.

“We have taken it as a duty at Wema Bank to upskill talents and set them on a comfortable pathway as they join us.

“Apart from our core banking business, we are also about talent development and management; hence we are delighted to have trained this new set of recruits and integrated them into the system,” she said.

Wema Bank, the creator of Nigeria’s first fully digital bank, ALAT By Wema, has an impressive track record of talent development and management.

Apart from the Bankers-in-Training Scheme, it launched an SME business school last year to equip SMEs with the essential management knowledge required to effectively run their businesses and respond to challenges in a demanding business environment.

TheStar