Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Bankers turn to computer geeks

In the banking sector of the Russian economy employs several million people. Among them, many economists, lawyers, accountants and representatives of many other professions. To learn how to teach future employees of credit institutions portal Bank.ru talked with the rector of the Moscow Institute bank Natalia Geroninoy. - What are the requirements you present applicants seeking bank education? - First, an applicant must have a certain amount of knowledge that allows to study the financial institution. In addition, we examine each candidate in terms of fitness for work in the financial and credit institution. Specialists existing in our institute of psychological services are testing the applicant for its suitability in terms of moral and volitional qualities. Work in a bank involves daily contact with customers, financial documents, cash, so the bank employee is required to psychological stability, decency and honesty. - Where are arranged your graduates? - Senior students and graduates of our institute take jobs primarily in banks. They work in credit departments concerned with foreign exchange controls, and many other areas of banking. Some of the students, especially girls, interested in analytical work - they are employed by financial analysts in financial and credit institutions. Others, especially young men, tempted by the administrative work that is associated with an eye on career growth. - In connection with the development of information technology do you expect the emergence of new banking profession? - Certainly, the development of information technology leads to the improvement of banking activity, the emergence of new directions in the banks. One of the most obvious examples - the introduction of remote channels most of the payments. Banks will move increasingly to the internet banking, mobile banking. Online customer service will require a reformat, not only of banks but also training for them. At the dawn of the bank employee of the bank is essentially an accountant, economist. Now the work of the institution is largely computerized. Bank employee must have knowledge in addition to financial skills masterly work on the computer. In the future, in my view, a bank employee of the front office will become a greater extent in the programmer to economic knowledge. We are now ready for these radical changes in banking activities. We have established training center, which is a learning platform based on innovative IT-technology. On computers that students master basic banking operations. We strive to act in advance and lay in educational software operations that, in our opinion, appear in the near future. - How many graduate job in banking? - The issue of employment - a cardinal problem of high school. In my opinion, the criterion of the success of higher education system in general and the specific institution of higher education in particular should be evaluation of the graduate, which gives the employer. He is the primary consumer of educational products produced by an institution or university. Demand for graduates of MBI in the labor market is 98.6%. The overwhelming majority of our graduates are working in banks. Some of the job in insurance, investment companies, financial institutions division. - What are the lending institutions to students as the most promising? - Those lending institutions where they can most successfully build their careers. This is primarily large banks, in which there are many vacancies and opened the possibility of career advancement. - Is it worth the money invested in banking education? - Money spent on banking education are meaningful, successful investment in human capital. These funds allow the acquisition of the prestigious professions in the future - a stable, forward-looking work. Our school provides education, focused primarily on banking activities. We follow a dual approach: on the one hand, specialization on a thorough preparation for work is banking profile, on the other - to study a wide range of financial and macroeconomic discipline. The second trend makes it possible to better understand the specifics of banking, understood in a larger measure macroeconomic processes that affect the banking sector. In addition, financial education, which we give at our institute, you can work in any financial-credit institutions, not only in banks. - What is the difference between teaching in the Russian financial institutes and western? - Basic principles of learning about the same, but still there are significant differences. In my opinion, they relate primarily to the specialization approach, if you like - detailed study of finance. In Russia, Finance examines not only the economic departments of universities, which allows deeper over financial problems, to approach them realistically. In the West's financial education given to the economics departments of universities and higher schools of economics, where the focus is still on theoretical issues. If we take as an example, the Moscow Bank Institute, we have classroom training is combined with the assimilation of skills in the banking sector. This ensures the release of the walls of the institute is not "semi", requiring additional training in the workplace, and ready-made bank staff, who immediately fully included in the labor process.

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