Tendency towards Banking Profession of Bangladeshi Business Graduates: A Study on Some Selected Public and Private Banks of Bangladesh

Abstract

The banking sector in Bangladesh has achieved unprecedented expansion in terms of number and diversity of business keeping the view of individual and national perspectives. Such highly evolved booming as well as challenging sector requires upbeat and enthusiastic workers with strong interpersonal skills. Our Fresh graduates can have a variety of opportunities to grow further in future in this platform. Now-a-days, they prefer banking as their profession because they assume that there are lots of opportunities to grow their career in this field. This paper primarily tries to explore the different perceived reasons which motivate young graduates to prefer banking as a profession and to build up their career in this sector. Data has been collected through both primary and secondary sources and an articulated (both statistical and conclusive) methodology has been followed for judging various dimensions covering factors behind their tendency toward banking profession. Moreover, this research tries to figure a way to direct and guide the young professionals as it puts forward some recommendations assisting them to overcome hesitations in choosing banking as a profession as well as to attract the attention of the policy makers into the vital issues for making the field lucrative one.

Keywords: Career in Banking, Attitudinal factors, Career prospects. Management policies