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Mixed Information About Santander Recruitment Plans

07 Sep 2010

Mixed Information About Santander Recruitment Plans You will probably remember our article about Santander’s 600 new finance jobs from the end of July. Well, things have taken rather an odd turn since then with the much-respected FT claiming that Santander will actually hire 6,000 new banking staff over the next year or two.

The Financial Times said on its website on 5th September that people ‘familiar with recruitment plans’ at Santander say that UK expansion plans could see the bank hiring 6,000 over the next couple of years. However, speaking to The Recruiter, Simon Lloyd, director of recruitment at Santander, has scotched these claims as inaccurate.

Lloyd backed the original figure of 600 new finance jobs but refuted the 6,000 claim. He said that, “like any other company, the bank recruits many people each year as normal course of business to meet the requirements of staff turnover.”

Santander, the Eurozone’s biggest money lender, employs over 22,000 people at the moment, so 6,000 new banking jobs in the next two years would be a considerable increase on their current staffing levels if the FT story was true.

In the same article, the FT also reported on the wider recovery in the financial services sector jobs market with other retail bank currently seeking more people to fill finance jobs. They said that recruitment in the City was giving off optimistic signs unlike some other sectors of the jobs market in the United Kingdom.

Any graduates currently on the hunt for finance jobs in the UK will find vacancies for people of all levels of experience on our website. If you are studying for a degree in London or have already graduated then try our Graduate Finance Jobs in London page to see if anything looks like the job for you.

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