in the evaluation of the works the role of the main founder of the financial award in the prestigious „Dean’s Award of the Master’s Study at the Warsaw School of Economics”. The purpose of the award is to honour the best student of the Warsaw School of Economics, whose excellent academic results and original diploma thesis met the competition criteria.
Governance
Recruitment, Internship and Apprenticeship Programmes
Bank Pekao, as a reliable and responsible employer, comprehensively approaches issues related to the recruitment of the Bank’s employees, both internal and external, and provides support in the systematic development of employees.
Pekao Group’s recruitment policy is aimed at attracting the best external candidates while promoting internal talent. Thanks to this, Pekao Group employs people with diverse experience and professional competencies. The Bank conducts activities encouraging employees to participate in internal recruitment (throughout the Pekao Group) as part of their professional development in other business areas.
The primary regulation in this regard is the External and Internal Recruitment Procedure. The regulation allows to guarantee an optimal and uniform process of selection of people for the tasks performed in line with the Bank’s HR policy and business plans and strategy. The procedure regulates the recruitment process for positions covered by the Company’s Collective Bargaining Agreement and the MBO System for positions from and including the N-3 level. Recruitment to positions above the N-3 level takes place according to separate procedures, including in particular the Selection Policy for Candidates for the Position of Member of the Management Board and Key Function and the Assessment of the Suitability of Proposed and Appointed Members of the Management Board, Supervisory Board and Persons Performing Key Functions in Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna
The recruitment process is each time focused on identifying and verifying the best candidate who meets the job requirements as well as those specified in the recruitment requisition and who has the right attitude as well as competencies that are key from the organization’s point of view in accordance with the Competency Model in force at the Bank.
One of the annual goals of the Bank is to acquire a certain number of graduates from the best universities both in Poland and abroad and to offer them professional development within the organization: in the branch network and in units of the Bank’s Head Office. With this in mind, in 2021, the Bank offered a year-round internship programme to college students and graduates. Internships last from 2 to 3 months and give the opportunity to gain experience in selected areas of banking, in all organizational units of the Bank. An additional opportunity to gain experience was the Summer Internship Programme „Academy of the Bison” carried out for two months. In 2021, 54 people participated in the summer internship programme. Students had the opportunity to learn about the specifics of working in different business areas, such as corporate and SME banking, retail banking, risk management, IT, operations and services, finance. Each participant in the internship program was assigned a mentor who oversaw the collaboration and kept track of the assigned individual’s progress. The interns had clear tasks in the teams they joined and a real influence on the course of ongoing projects. The cooperation with the bank was on the basis of a fixed-term employment contract.
The dimension of interaction with job candidates, already verified by Bank Pekao, was recruitment in the virtual world as part of Jobicon Festival. It is a place to meet candidates in a safe virtual reality and a customized development environment for young people, created at the intersection of knowledge, technology and entertainment. Jobicon Online provided a space for engaging meetings with thousands of candidates. The events held included:
- interactive and in-person live online meetings with candidates – meetings in private rooms that participants had previously signed up for,
- group sessions,
- webinars for a wider audience.
In 2021, the Bank participated in this event twice. Thanks to the Jobicon practice, the most desired candidates for work from all over Poland were efficiently and quickly acquired, and deep and long-term relationships with the candidates were established and built. The internship provided an opportunity to share knowledge and experience with young people entering the workforce.
Employer branding activities
Bank Pekao takes care to shape the image of a stable and attractive employer, among other things, through cooperation with universities. Major initiatives in 2021 include:
at the Warsaw School of Economics
as part of which the Bank organised a webinar entitled „A career in the COVID era – is it possible and how to start it”, as well as provided a series of individual recruitment interviews,
an event addressed to people connected with broadly understood computer science and data science, regardless of their level of advancement
during which Bank Pekao S.A. offered individual consultations with our Recruitment Team, concerning the choice and development of one’s career path, recruitment conditions, the nature of work, required competencies, chances for promotion.
an event during which the Bank’s representatives introduced recruitment plans and familiarized students of the Military University of Technology with the expectations and specificity of work at Pekao S.A.