Andhra Bank recruitment notification 2012 has come out today for 600 Clerks. As per the notification, Online submission of form starts from 21st April and the last date to apply online for Andhra Bank Clerk Recruitment 2012 is 5th May, 2012.

You can click here to download here to download Andhra Bank Clerk Recruitment 2012 Notification.

This is the fourth PSU bank clerk recruitment notification to come out in last few days - previously three other banks had issued the recruitment notification: Dena Bank for 1090 Clerks, Bank of India: for 3149 clerks &  Bank of Baroda for 2000 clerks. All these banks are recruiting based on IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 score. The Common Written Exam 2011 was held for 19 major PSU banks of India on 27.11.2011 and the result was declared on 29th Feb, 2012.  So remaining 15 banks are very shortly going to follow these recruitment notification for clerks. The number of total Clerk vacancies through IBPS CWE Clerk 2011 should be more than 20,000.

If you have been following this blog, you must have come to know that recruitment of PO based on IBPS CWE PO 2011 is still on progress and twelve banks (out of the nineteen) have so far issued recruitment notification for 13812 PO jobs. You can find a detailed article on this in my previous blog article titled: IBPS CWE Score Cut-off for PO Bank-wise: for all banks.

This blog post of mine apprises you about the important information contained in the Andhra Bank Clerk Recruitment Notification 2012 to help you apply for the same and also some Andhra Bank Interview Question Prep material towards the end.

Andhra Bank Clerk Vacancy 2012:

There are 600 Clerk vacancies in Andhra Bank as per the notification with state-wise, category-wise vacancies as given at right. This State-wise vacancy is very important as you have to apply for the clerk positions state-wise and you should be able to read, write, speak local language of that state. Moreover you should have appeared IBPS CWE 2011 from a centre of that state for which vacancies you want to apply.

Andhra Bank Clerk Salary:

Salary (i.e. Pay-scale) offered by Andhra Bank for these Clerk positions is Basic Pay: Rs.7200 – 19300 with other benefits like DA, HRA, etc Approx salary per month with this pay scale is Rs. 13,840/=.

Andhra Bank Eligibility for Clerks:

Age Eligibility (as on 01.08.2011): Min 18 yrs, Max 28 yrs. (Relaxations exists as per Govt rule).

Educational Qualification Eligibility
Graduate degree in any discipline from a recognized university.

IBPS CWE Cut-Off  for Andhra Bank Clerks:

IBPS Score cut-off for each individual tests:
For Unreserved: 24
For SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWD/ Ex-servicemen: 21

IBPS CWE TWS cut-off mark State-wise, Category-wise:
You can find the state-wise cut-off marks for IBPS CWE TWS (Total Weighted Standard) Score for Bank Of Baroda in the table at right.

As you can see, for Bihar, you need to have the highest CWE TWS score. The least CWE score is required for Karnataka etc. For some categories in a particular state (like SC, ST in Bihar) no CWE cut-off has been mentioned in the notification, as for  this BOB Recruitment 2012, there is no clerk vacancy for ST category in Bihar.

Selection Process for Andhra Bank Clerks:

Based on the CWE scores of the applicants received by Andhra Bank, it is going to shortlist the candidates for personal interview.

There are 35 marks for Interview. For General category candidates, you should score minimum 40% of Interview marks to qualify. For the Interview cut-off % age is 35%  Reserved categories. The Final merit list would be prepared by totaling the marks scored in IBPS  & marks scored in Andhra Bank Interview.

Andhra Bank Clerk Recruitment 2012 Online Form:

You can apply for Andhra Bank (Andhra Bank) Clerk Recruitment 2012 only online, There is no offline form. The online form is available from 21st April, 2012 to 5th May, 2012.

Click here for Andhra Bank Clerk Recruitment 2012 Online Form.

How to apply online has been given in detail in section-"11. How to Apply” in page-9 of the Notification. Also you will need this Cash Voucher if you want to pay the application fee  off-line at any branch of Andhra Bank.

Andhra Bank Clerk Interview Question:

This blog has excellent materials to help you prepare for the Andhra Bank Interview with a list of Interview questions  click here to visit this article, which tells you what are the requirements an interviewer looks for in you. It also gives you an interesting YouTube video telling you how you can also analyze an interviewer and hence be prepared for it. And than it gives you a list of 99 interview questions, which are most repeated in every other interview! These questions helps you prepare yourself.

You should also be ready to face questions on "What is Andhra Bank", as the interviewer would want to know how much interested you are for this job. So go through this About us page of Andhra Bank.

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Hope with above information on Andhra Bank Clerk recruitment you can not only apply with ease but also get that coveted Andhra Bank job easily. Best wishes!