<p>The recruitment process, beginning from the advertisement to examination and interview stage to final recruitment, which now takes about a year to get over will drop drastically by a third, reducing the anxiety levels of candidates after an entrance exam.<br /><br />"There will now be a common pan-India entrance test which will help in reducing recruitment-time by almost a third of what it takes now," Indian Banks Association's Chief Executive K Ramakrishnan told PTI here today.<br /><br />Three to four such common entrance examinations are planned to be conducted every year and "this should begin in 2011," Ramakrishnan said.<br /><br />The exam will be conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) which will declare the results of the exam and give a scorecard to the candidates, valid for up to one to one-and-a-half-years.<br /><br />The exams will be mainly for clerical staff and entry-point officers, he said.</p>
<p>The recruitment process, beginning from the advertisement to examination and interview stage to final recruitment, which now takes about a year to get over will drop drastically by a third, reducing the anxiety levels of candidates after an entrance exam.<br /><br />"There will now be a common pan-India entrance test which will help in reducing recruitment-time by almost a third of what it takes now," Indian Banks Association's Chief Executive K Ramakrishnan told PTI here today.<br /><br />Three to four such common entrance examinations are planned to be conducted every year and "this should begin in 2011," Ramakrishnan said.<br /><br />The exam will be conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) which will declare the results of the exam and give a scorecard to the candidates, valid for up to one to one-and-a-half-years.<br /><br />The exams will be mainly for clerical staff and entry-point officers, he said.</p>