GTBank’s Training
Academy gets CIBN Accreditation as
School of Banking Excellence 
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The Guaranty Trust
Bank Training Academy for pre-entry level staff was accredited by the Governing
Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) as a School of
Banking Excellence in recognition of the quality of the entry level programme
which takes fresh graduates through an intensive Four-month pre-career course.
The criteria for
endorsing the GTBank’s Academy for Basic Banking by the Chartered Institute of
Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) focused on evaluating the level of alignment of its curriculum
with the professional papers of CIBN and the Competency Framework of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). CIBN, the sole accreditation agency for the
Banking and Finance industry in Nigeria, set up a panel of eminent Scholars and
seasoned Bankers in September 2014 to assess the curriculum and learning facilities
of the academy. At the end of the evaluation, the panel applauded the high
learning standards of the academy as well as the foresightedness of the Bank to
set up a credible institution that prepare participants for a professional banking
experience whilst recommending the academy as a School of Banking Excellence.
Part of the
accreditation is the exemption of trainees who are successful at the GTBank
Entry Level Training programme from 9 courses in the Chartered Institute of
Bankers of Nigerian (CIBN) Professional Certification examination.
The GTBank
Recruitment process is very credible and transparent as it ensures that eligible
candidates who have applied to work with the Bank by submitting the relevant
documents on the Bank’s Career portal are shortlisted for a computer-based
assessment covering Spatial Reasoning, History/Current Affairs, Abstract
reasoning, Verbal and Numeric reasoning etc. The assessment is designed to determine
if the shortlisted applicants possess the requisite skills for a job role in
the Bank. Successful candidates are then invited for three different stages of
interviews; Pre-documentation, Panel and One-on-one interview. Candidates who make
it through to the Final Interview stage of the recruitment process will be
offered a place in the Bank’s four-month Entry-Level Training Programme where they
are expected to make a minimum average score specified at the beginning of the
Programme, before they are absorbed into the Bank as staff . The GTBank School
of Banking Excellence was set up with a competency-based curriculum where
participants are trained and tested on practical, social, and technical aspects
of Banking as well as personal development.
Commenting on the award, Mr. Segun Agbaje, Managing Director/Chief
Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Bank plc said “We instituted a dynamic
talent management strategy designed to identify, attract, train and retain our
employees as we are aware that we are competing for the best people globally”.
He added “We believe that the GTBank Academy of Basic Banking is critical to
developing the next generation of proficient staff, who will best serve our
clients and grow our business”.
Guaranty Trust Bank
plc with over 200 branches within Nigeria, presently has business subsidiaries
in Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda
and the United Kingdom. The GTBank brand is regarded as one of the best run
financial institutions across the aforementioned countries singularly for its
bias for World class customer service ethics, organizational structure, culture
and innovation.
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