The basic regulation in this regard is the Procedure for External and Internal Recruitment. The regulation guarantees optimal and uniform selection of persons to perform tasks in accordance with the HR policy and the Bank’s business plans and strategy.
Employees
Recruitment, internship and apprenticeship programs
The Bank, as a reliable and responsible employer, treats all issues connected with both internal and external recruitment of employees in a comprehensive way and provides support in the systematic development of persons employed by the Bank.
The recruitment policy in the Pekao Group is aimed at acquiring the best external candidates, while promoting internal talents. Thanks to this, the Pekao Group employs people with various professional experiences and competences. The Bank conducts activities encouraging employees to participate in internal recruitment (throughout the Pekao Group) as part of professional development in other business areas.
The recruitment is always focused on the identification and verification of the best candidate that meets the job requirements and those defined in the recruitment demand, has a relevant approach and key skills from the point of view of the organization in accordance with the Bank’s Competence Model.
One of the annual goals of the Bank is to attract a specific number of graduates from the best universities in Poland and abroad and offer them professional development opportunities within the organization: in branches or units of the Bank’s Head Office. With this in mind, the Bank targeted three internship/trainee programs for university students and graduates in 2023. Banking Champions, IT Banking Champions and the Bison Academy summer internship program. Under the programs, 71 interns and 31 apprentices found employment at the Bank.
Banking Champions is a program that allowed trainees to gain unique competencies and practical experience in the field of finance and banking. Participants in the program were able to expand their skills in areas such as risk management, corporate and investment banking, data science, data analytics and big data, and new technology and development.
IT Banking Champions made it possible to gain experience in the IT field. The interns worked on projects aimed at transforming Bank Pekao into one of the most omnichannel-developed banks in Poland. The interns were employed based on a fixed-term employment contract.
Bank Pekao’s already proven dimension of interaction with job candidates was recruitment as part of the Jobicon Job Festival. This 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.
- live interactive and personal meetings with online candidates – meetings in private rooms to which participants signed up beforehand,
- group sessions,
- webinars for wider audiences.
Through Jobicon’s practice, the most desirable job candidates from all over Poland were successfully and quickly acquired, long-term relationships with candidates were established and built. The internship made it possible to share knowledge and experience with young people entering the labor market.