Bank South Pacific expects to increase employee numbers as the company continues to expand and grow its operations.
CEO Robin Fleming said much of the staff increase will focus on the retail section of its services to address the long client queues.
“We think there will be further staff number increase in PNG, more so than other countries during the course of 2018. We do realise we need to provide staff to certain areas, particularly in the retail area. None of us like to see the queues,” Fleming said.
He added the bank has a high focus on developing staff, beginning with its graduate and senior leadership program.
This has already resulted in appointments of nationals to very senior roles.
“We took on board 10 people for our graduate intake at the end of last year, end of this year, notwithstanding we have in certain areas people who are high school graduates, our normal intake will quite often involve people who have degrees, notwithstanding that they may not be in the graduate program itself.
“Noting that we do have 44 branches and 40-odd sub-branches around the country, most of those people are recruited where there is no competition anyway.
“So our target is to grow and develop.
“We do have a leadership program of 45 staff around the Pacific, and we’ve seen the promotion of certain people within that leadership development program.”
(CEO Robin Fleming)