What we do..

Recruitment: A pioneer in the use of Objective Type testing methodology for employment testing in the country, the Institute constantly seeks to keep pace with the times as well as the needs of client organizations. A robust research environment and the experience gained over two and a half decades of testing employees at entry, middle and senior levels as well as assessing in general and specialist cadres, ensures that the Institute provides methods of selection which are efficient and relevant to the job profile. Its approach to selection is based on identification of talent that is most appropriate to the changing functional roles and business needs. Over the years, IBPS has enhanced its infrastructure, network and expertise to contemporary requirements and have upgraded its modus operandi to handle mass recruitments at any centre across the country. To date, the volume of candidates assessed stands unparalleled. Below is the comparative analysis for Recruitment during the years 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Promotion and placement: The Institute not only helps to identify talent to be sourced from the market through the recruitment process but also helps to identify employees within organizations with the necessary competencies to cope with roles and responsibilities. IBPS has been conducting inter-scale

promotion assessments for both Generalist and Specialist cadre employees across levels of the organizations. With the selection process, the Institute helps its clients in succession planning their manpower, thereby providing opportunities for the employees to grow and develop. The graphical representation of the projects undertaken for promotion and placement activities during the year 2010-11 is given below :

Assessment center:

The Institute has been conducting Assessment Centre Programmes for variety of clients. The aim of conduct gaps in the skill levels [between desired level and observed level], decide upon placement of employees by m job profile and identify training needs of individual employees. These programmes also provide a platform fo The flow chart below explains the process further:

The Assessment Centre lays emphasis on the following categories of competencies: Competencies

The tools used for the Assessment Centre are developed by highly qualified and experienced Psychometricia and reliable manner. The Assessment tools commonly used are:

Simulation Exercises Role Plays Committee Exercises Management Games Problem Solving Exercises in team situation Presentations Personal Interviews

The results generated during the assessment centre provide the foundation for personal development of empl conveying the feedback to each individual employee with regard to his/her strengths and areas of developme the observations.

Below are some of the client organizations which have availed our services for Special Programmes for Inter the year 2010-11.

Training: IBPS conducts training programmes for its clients on a range of areas. It provides short-term training capsule program to cater to the clients needs. Some of them include training on:

Behavior assessment skills Item writing skills Training on test administration procedure for personnel Training on test administration for centre (City) coordinators Training programs for trainers Induction training programs for newly recruited staff

R&D

The Institute is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization by the Government of India. IBPS as a professional institution primarily handles recruitment, promotion, placement, admission and training activities. The foundation of all these functions

lies on its extensive research and development efforts. Research activities are carried out to achieve the following:

To improve and modify whenever necessary, the existing recruitment and selection processes of the institute, To promote the development of theoretical perspectives in the domain of Psychometrics, Assessment and Selection, Banking and HR and General Management. Research and development activities are also centered to handle the consultancy and providing solutions to issues pertaining to psychometric tools and manpower planning. To provide advisory services to the policy making bodies in banking industry, academic institutions and government bodies. To conduct seminars and workshops to keep pace with the latest developments in the field of selection science and psychometry.

The Institute is also recognized as a Centre for guiding scholars for PhD in Management by SNDT University. Five Faculty Members are recognized as PhD Guides. It also offers internship opportunities to post graduate students in the areas of behavioral assessment sciences. It has rich library which is well-stocked with books and periodicals related to Human Resource Management, Psychometrics, Testing, Measurement & Evaluation, General Management, Banking and Finance, Information technology and the related areas of Selection Science. It also provides its staff, visiting scholars and interns, the opportunity to gain knowledge through elearning process. Consultancy:

The Institute provides consulting services to its clients that help in enriching their human resources and talent cap been provided to over 15 clients cutting across industry/sectors which include Banking, Insurance, industries like private corporate etc. The Institute provides consulting services in the following areas:

Manpower Planning Organization Restructuring Recruitment Policy Internal Promotion Policy Job Analysis and Job Profiling Competency Mapping for re-skilling/up-skilling/realigning assignments

Owing to the success of these services, IBPS clientele has multiplied over the years. It has maintained its repute resources to meet contemporary challenges.

Activities Online apps registration: With the world becoming tech savvy, the Institute realized that there was a need to adopt advanced processes of applying and receiving applications for jobs. Since 2006 IBPS has successfully introduced online receipt of applications with intimations through email or SMS. Additionally Bilingual Applications, Photo/ Signature/ Biodata upload are possible as per client requirements. Today almost 90 percent of the applications are received in this mode and this method is successful even with rural applicants. An advantage of technology is that a huge number of candidates can appear for the testing process irrespective of distance. IBPS also makes wide application of technology in HR interventions. Below is the year wise Online Application Registration status report:

Test Dvpt
To handle academic matters, the Institute has professionally qualified faculty members who have specializations in Psychometrics, Human Resources, Educational Measurement, Banking and Finance, etc. The faculty group caters to client organizations needs by studying job requirements, developing appropriate tests and selection tools, coordinating research studies, conducting assessment and training programmes, guiding doctorate level research in management studies. The major strength of the Institute is that it develops all the ability/aptitude tests inhouse through its own faculty members, which gives the Institute an edge over any other such Institute. Special care is taken to ensure the psychometric properties of the tests and accurate score reporting.

IBPS has on its panel over 750 academicians, bankers, over 2000 trained test administrators and other professionals of proven integrity, all over the country. It has the capacity to conduct written examinations with their help, simultaneously all over the country in over 150 cities/towns for over 300 thousand candidates in one session. Paramount importance is given to safety, secrecy and security of the test material as also fair, impartial and smooth conduct of the examination and seamless logistics

Moving beyond traditional testing methods, IBPS has introduced online testing for recruitment and selection in its client organizations. It has been one of the pioneers in Online testing module especially in the financial sector. It currently has the capacity to hold online examination for over 5000 candidates across the country in a single session. It ensures providing a congenial test environment, high availability servers at data center, secure leased lines, test centers having range of capacities - from 10 PCs to over 100 PCs, trained test administrators at the test centers for proctoring and professional support. IBPS services in this regard include downloadable admit cards and personal intimations through e-mail and SMS. In nutshell, our services are:

The demo process can be accessed through the following link. Please enter the username and password as provided and follow the instructions.

URL for the Application is http://app9.ibps.in/OnlineExam Credentials for login are:

Username: 12345678 Password: 12345678

Post exam activities include evaluation of candidates answer sheets and result processing. Objective papers are evaluated with the help of our in-house computerized scoring system (OMR scanners). IBPS pioneered the computer based scanning system in India and at present has a capacity of scanning more than 200 thousand answer sheets a day. The Institute is, perhaps, the only one in the world having a unique distinction of handling a massive number each year. It is known for assessing candidates with accuracy and this process is time tested and validated.

Currently, the Institutes testing and evaluation is based on the Classical Test Theory (CTT), but is moving towards Item Response Theory (IRT).

Prerequisite for job effectiveness is a judicious mix of competencies. While written test focuses on the intellectual potential, group exercises concentrate on socio-emotive traits that are required for the job effectiveness. Group exercises primarily focus on assessment of latent traits such as inter-personal competence, communication, team building skills, analysis and reasoning, ideation, leadership traits etc. The Institute has an experience of more than two decades in conducting group exercises for banks, public sector organizations; management institutes, private sector banks and the multinational companies. Over the period of 25 years, the institute has tested over 100 thousand candidates through Group exercises.

The Institute also conducts interview skill training programmes to train interviewers in the art and science of conducting interviews. The objective behind conducting interviews is to check the inter-personal skills of candidates along with tacit knowledge about the job profile. It has a credible, skilled and experienced team of experts that is located in all metropolitan cities and state capitals of India. In the past two years, it has assessed more than 50,000 candidates through the process of interviews in more than 20 locations across the nation.

BPS is one of the leading institutions that caters to the talent identification needs of its clients, providing them with end to end solutions maintaining accuracy, secrecy and confidentiality, which are the core values of the Institute. We have been amply rewarded with the unconditional trust that our clients have put in us. The list of our clients is virtually endless, which is broadly classified into:

Public Sector Banks Private and Foreign Banks Regional Rural Banks Central and Other Financial Institutions Co-operative Banks Insurance Companies Other Public/ Private Sector Undertakings Academic Institutes

The Institute has been accredited for successfully handling talent assessment of a huge number of candidates for large number of clients.

Over the years, the Institute has won accolades for its performance and some of the milestones of the Institute are mentioned below: IBPS has been the pioneer in the use of multiple-choice objective tests for mass level selection. It has evolved sophisticated result processing methodology to produce 100% accurate results. It is one of the institutes to evolve multiple forms of test booklets (1983). It has developed unique software for analyzing items on psychometric properties (1987). IBPS is known for its computerized processing and is one of the institutions to popularize technology like use of Optical Mark Reading, OMR (1985). It has also developed unique software for identifying cases of use of unfair practice during examinations (1986). It has conducted online examinations for inter-cadre promotions in banks (2006). In a short time gap of 3 weeks, the Institute sent call letters to 2.42 million candidates (2008). IBPS has a seamless online registration process for about 3.5 million candidates for a single project (2009). It has also handled filling in of 79,236 vacancies in 35 states/union territories (2010-11). It conducts over 400 examinations in a calendar year. It also conducts examination for 600 thousand candidates at 200 centers across 2000 venues in one day. IBPS does testing for over 13 million candidates in a year. For senior level selection and promotion, the Institute has promoted Scientific Assessment Centre process (1996). It has a reservoir of highest number of tested items (Question Bank). IBPS also contributes tremendously towards conservation of environment through Paperless Registration Process. Thus, it saves about 100 tonnes of paper usage every year. It is one of the institutes to have initiated high value projects for private sector (2009). IBPS launched selection tests in 13 languages for RBI Young Scholars Award Scheme (2007).

Grow with IBPS In any Business, Finance, Service or Knowledge industry or for admission to academic institution, skill assessment by administering an aptitude test to the candidate is inevitable. IBPS

being the largest testing organization and think tank of complete human resource solutions, the experience earned in the organization by the incumbent has wide scope in the industry or business organization. If you are looking for a career in the Human Resource related matter we offer opportunities for employment either in our organization or any other organization who has been utilizing our services in the area of recruitment, placement, promotion and related research. We offer employment opportunities to all professionals by assessing their potential in a scientific method. Being a part of the IBPS team can really be a breakthrough journey for professionals as they get an opportunity to enrich their career experience. Divisional Head - Technology Click here for Job Descriptions