Career Quips: Oriental Insurance Recruitment 2012 (Admin Officer) Notification, Eligibility & Form

Oriental Insurance Company Ltd (OICL) has just twoew days back issued notification for recruitment of 477 Admin Officer (AO) positions. While for the specialization positions “Legal” & “Librarian”, you need to have 3 years experience, for others, even freshers can apply. Online form submission starts on 28th January and the last date to apply is 13th February, 2012.

You can click here to download the Oriental Insurance Admin Officer Recruitment 2012 Notification,

This blog post is being made to highlight the salient points of the notification – e.g. eligibility required and the forms, to help you apply for the same. In a subsequent blog post titled: Oriental Insurance Admin Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books I would present you the prep materials to prepare for this exam.

But first let us learn about Oriental Insurance Company as an organization.

What is Oriental Insurance Company

Incorporated in 1947, Oriental Insurance is one of the leading insurance organizations in India with 30 Regional Offices & 900+ operating Offices in various cities of the country. It also has overseas presence in Nepal, Kuwait and Dubai. Manned by 15,000+ employees, its gross premium increased from a paltry Rs.99,946 in the first year to a mammoth Rs. 5569.88 crores in 2010-11.

You can learn more about Oriental Insurance from this About us page.

Admin Officer Vacancies in Oriental Insurance:

There are a total of 477 admin officer vacancies with category-wise breakup as below:

SC: 69, ST: 35, OBC: 141; GEN: 232

Salary for Oriental Insurance Admin Officer:

Oriental Insurance offers the Admin Officers Basic pay of Rs. 17,240/=, in the pay-scale of Rs. 17,240-840 (14)-29000-910 (4)- 32640/=. With this pay scale, salary for admin officer positions in Oriental Insurance per month is Rs. 30,000/= approx.

Oriental Insurance Eligibility for Admin Officer:

Age Eligibility: (as on 01.01.2012)

Min: 21 years, Max: 30 years. Age relaxations exist as per Govt. rule.

Academic Eligibility:

The 477 vacant positions have been categorized into nine groups: Actuaries, Marketing, HR, IT, Accounts, Legal, Engineers, Librarian & Generalists. You need to have 60% in graduation or 55% in PG in your area of specialization - for SC/ST, there is a rebate of 5% marks.

You can find detail eligibility conditions in page-1 of the Notification,

Qualifications should be from any recognised University / Institute duly approved by UGC / AICTE as the case may be.

Selection Process for Admin Officers in Oriental Insurance:

The selection process consists of a written test (with both Objective as well as Descriptive questions), followed by Interview. More about this in my next blog post titled: Oriental Insurance Admin Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.

Oriental Insurance Recruitment Important Dates:

Start date for online application: 28.01.2012

Last date for online application: 13.02.2011

Date of written examination: 08.04.2012.

Oriental Insurance Exam 2012 Online form:

You can apply only online for Oriental Insurance Recruitment 2012.

How to apply online for Oriental Insurance Recruitment 2012 is given very clearly in section “(XI) How to Apply” in page-7 of the Notification, You can also find the same in this web-page.

If you have read the same thoroughly, click here to find the Online Form for Oriental Insurance Recruitment 2012. The forms would be displayed only from 28th January to 13th February, 2012 (10 PM),

Oriental Insurance Exam 2012 Call Letter:

Call letter for the written exam of Oriental Insurance would not be sent to you but you have to download the same from this website.

Hope with above you can apply confidently for the Admin Officer positions in Oriental Insurance company. There would be written exam for these positions. How do you prepare for Oriental Insurance Admin Officers exam? Follow me in the next blog post titled: .Oriental Insurance Admin Officer Exam Pattern, Papers & Books.