FBNBANK offers career opportunities for young people

FBNBank has introduced a career-shaping opportunity for young people between 11 and 14 years old at the basic school level, through which early adolescents who are customers of the bank will be eligible to undertake an internship programme at the bank.

A statement issued by the bank said the programme, dubbed “Junior Internship”, is in line with the Bank’s corporate social responsibility agenda, and is also aimed at providing the bank’s “young customers”, with the consent of their parents and or guardians, an opportunity to benefit from a one-week internship at any of FBNBank’s 26 branches and service points across the country.

“Under the Programme, the junior interns are expected to enjoy a rich first-hand learning and mentoring experience in a world-class corporate working environment that offers benefits like banking and financial literacy awareness, a hands-on feel of banking and customer service at the branch level, confidence building and how to interact with different people, the importance and habit of savings and career counselling and mentoring,” the statement said.

It said that at the end of the internship programme, each intern is expected to present a handwritten report which will be shared with the parents or guardian. FBNBank, in turn, will present each intern with a certificate of participation upon completing the programme.

“At FBNBank, we consider our young customers as the future of the country.

This initiative is in line with our broad approach to focus on the youth and it aligns with our corporate social responsibility agenda.

Following this, we have fashioned this development opportunity for our young ones so that we can help improve their exposure to the work environment and give them a head start in this competitive world,” said Victor Yaw Asante, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of FBNBank.

The statement said the bank hopes that by the end of 2023, it would have touched the lives of many early adolescents through the Bank’s Junior Internship programme.

To achieve this, the Bank is collaborating with schools in the catchment area of its 26 branches and agencies to make the programme available to young people when they are on vacation and show a willingness to benefit from it and, importantly, have their parent’s or guardian’s consent.

FBNBank has been operating in Ghana for the past 27 years and remains focused on putting its customers and communities first and is a member of the First Bank of Nigeria Limited Group .