State Bank of India 
Central Recruitment & Promotion Department 
Corporate Centre, 
Mumbai Phone: 022-22820427,
 email:crpd@sbi.co.in    
      
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details :https://www.careerpower.in/2022/sbi-po-notification-pdf.pdf
Last Date  for submission of Online Application: 12.10.2022

Applications are invited from eligible Indian Citizens for appointment as Probationary Officers (POs) in State Bank of India. The selected candidates may be posted anywhere in India. 

Eligible candidates are required to register on-line for the recruitment process which will be held in three Phase viz. (i) Phase-I; (ii) Phase-II; and (iii) Phase-III. Candidates who are shortlisted after Phase-I will have to appear for Phase-II. Candidates who are shortlisted after the Phase-II will be subsequently called for Phase-III.

Post: Probationary Officer
No. of posts: 1673, out of whih 18 for Visually Impaired
Regular posts: 16
Backlog posts: 02

Qualification: Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by the Central Government. Those who are in the Final Year/ Semester of their Graduation may also apply provisionally subject to the condition that, if called for interview, they will have to produce proof of having passed the graduation examination on or before 31.12.2022. Candidates having Integrated Dual Degree (IDD) certificate should ensure that the date of passing the IDD is on or before 31.12.2022. Candidates possessing qualifications such as Medical, Engineering, Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant would also be eligible. 

Age: 21-30 years

Candidates are advised to regularly visit Bank’s website https://bank.sbi/careers or https://www.sbi.co.in/careers for details and updates. 

RESERVATION FOR PERSONS WITH BENCHMARK DISABILITY (PwBD): 4% horizontal reservation has been provided to Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) as per section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”. The post is identified suitable for the Persons with undernoted categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of RPWD Act 2016.

Use of Scribe & compensatory time:
The facility of scribe would be allowed to a person who has disability of 40% or more if so desired by the person and is meant for only those persons with disability who have physical limitation to write including that of speed. In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:
i. Candidates who are eligible and wish to use the services of scribe in the examination should carefully indicate the same in the online application form.
 ii. Both the candidate and the scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking, on the prescribed format at the time of online examination
iii. Such candidates who are eligible to use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination whether availing the facility of scribe or not.  iv. Candidate will have to arrange his/ her own scribe at his/ her own cost.
v. Any candidate who is not eligible to use scribe as per guidelines, as referred above, uses scribe in the online examination shall be disqualified to participate further in the process of recruitment.
vi. Any candidate who is using scribe should ensure that he/ she is eligible to use scribe in the examination as per the guidelines.
vii. If it is found that scribe is solving the papers himself, the candidature of the candidate is liable to be cancelled.
viii. Any candidate using scribe in violation of the above guidelines shall stand disqualified and can be removed from the service without notice, if already joined Bank.  
ix. The scribe will be allowed to be used as per the guidelines issued vide Office Memorandum F.No.16-110/2003-DDIII dated February 26, 2013, of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Disability Affairs, New Delhi and clarification issued by Government of India, Ministry of Financial, Department of Financial Services vide letter No. F.No.3/2/2013-Welfare dated 26.04.2013. 

The examinations will be conducted online at venues across many centres in India.            
 A tentative list of centres for Online Examination is attached as Annexure I 

No fee for PwD candidates.

Pay Scale: 36000--63840 /-

Apply online: https://ibpsonline.ibps.in/sbiposep22/

The candidates should download their call letter (Pre-exam Training/ Preliminary Exam/ Main Exam/ GE & Interview) and an “acquaint yourself booklet”, by entering their registration number and password/ date of birth from the Bank's website. NO HARD COPY OF THE CALL LETTER/ ACQUAINT YOURSELF BOOKLET WILL BE SENT BY POST 

Candidates need to bring two additional photographs (same as pasted by the candidate on call letter) along with call letter and other requisite documents as per information provided in the “Acquaint Yourself Booklet” and “Call Letter”. Candidate reporting without photograph pasted on the call letter and without two additional photographs (same as pasted on call letter) will NOT be allowed to appear in the Preliminary exam. 

 PROOF OF IDENTITY TO BE SUBMITTED AT THE TIME OF EXAMINTION: The candidates must bring one photo identity proof such as passport/ Aadhar/ PAN Card/ Driving License/ Voter's Id Card/ Bank Passbook with duly attested Photograph/ Identity Card issued by School or College/ Gazetted Officer in the official letterhead in original as well as a self-attested Photocopy thereof. The photocopy of Identity proof should be submitted along with call letter to the invigilators in the examination hall, failing which, (or if identity of candidates is in doubt) the candidate will not be permitted to appear for the test. 

Candidates are advised to take a printout of their system generated online application form after submitting the application. 

Call letter for Preliminary Exam will not be collected at the examination venue. However, it will be duly Checked/ Authenticated/ Stamped by the exam centre staff. Candidate will need to retain the call letter (along with authenticated/ stamped copy of ID proof) safely. Those candidates who are called for Main Exam will be required to bring duly authenticated “Original Preliminary Exam Call Letter (with Authenticated Copy of ID Proof)” as well as “Main Exam Call Letter” and “Other Requisite Documents” as per information provided in the “Acquaint Yourself Booklet” and “Call Letter

Guidelines for scanning and Upload of Photograph, Signature, Left-Hand Thumb Impression & Hand-Written Declaration 

Photograph (4.5 cm x 3.5 cm): • Photograph must be a recent passport style colour picture. • Make sure that the picture is coloured and is taken against a light-coloured, preferably white background. • Look straight at the camera with a relaxed face • If the picture is taken on a sunny day, have the sun behind you, or place yourself in the shade, so that you are not squinting and there are no harsh shadows • If you have to use flash, ensure there is no "red-eye" • If you wear glasses make sure that there are no reflections and your eyes are clearly visible. • Caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable. Religious headwear is allowed but it must not cover the face. • Dimensions 200 x 230 pixels (preferred) • Size of file should be between 20kb–50 kb • Ensure that the size of the scanned image is not more than 50kb. If the size of the file is more than 50 kb, then adjust the settings of the scanner such as the DPI resolution, no. of colours etc., during the process of scanning. • It is advisable that candidate retains 8 copies (approx.) of the same photograph which is uploaded at the time of online registration of application as these would be needed for further process of this selection process

Signature: •
The applicant has to sign on white paper with Black Ink pen
. • The signature must be signed only by the applicant and not by any other person.
• The signature will be used to put on the Call Letter and wherever necessary.
• If the Applicant’s signature on the answer script, at the time of the examination, does not match the signature on the Call Letter, the applicant will be disqualified.
• Dimensions 140 x 60 pixels (preferred)
• Size of file should be between 10kb to 20kb • Ensure that the size of the scanned image is not more than 20kb • Signature in CAPITAL LETTERS shall NOT be accepted. 

Scanning the photograph, signature, Left-Hand Thumb Impression & Hand-Written Declaration:
• Set the scanner resolution to a minimum of 200 dpi (dots per inch)
• Set Color to True Color and the File Size should be as specified above  
• Crop the image in the scanner to the edge of the photograph/ signature/ left-hand thumb impression/ hand-written declaration, then use the upload editor to crop the image to the final size (as specified above).
• The image file should be ‘JPG’ or ‘JPEG’ format. An example file name is: ‘image01.jpg’ or ‘image01.jpeg’.
The dimensions of the Image can be checked by listing the folder files or moving the mouse over the file image icon.
• Candidates using MS Windows/ MSOffice can easily obtain the documents in ‘.jpeg’ format not exceeding required size by using MS Paint or MS Office Picture Manager. The scanned photograph/ signature/ left-hand thumb impression/ hand-written declaration in any format can be saved in ‘.jpg’ format by using ‘Save As’ option in the File menu and size can be adjusted using crop and then resize option.
• If the file size and format are not as prescribed, an error message will be displayed.
• While filling in the Online Application Form the candidate will be provided with a separate link to upload his/ her photograph/ signature/ left-hand thumb impression/ hand-written declaration.