The NAB Return to Work (RTW) program launched in November 2021 has helped fill 40 roles earlier this year; 70 percent of those are women, revealed NAB.
Now in its second intake, the bank is hoping to fill at least another 30 RTW colleagues by mid-year, across a range of Technology roles including Project Analysts, Software Engineers, Architects and Technical Analysts.
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From mum to Scrum
The RTW program offers flexibility as a key appealing factor.
Technologists who had to take a break being busy mums are welcomed back to the workplace with the return to work program enabling those with break to start again.
The NAB Internship program serves as a launchpad. One of the recent recruits noted “The level of training the program offers means I’ve been able to accelerate my learning through the Cloud Guild, so I can get up to speed on cloud training with AWS and Azure.
I feel like I’ve made up for some seriously lost time.”
NAB’s tech internship program is one of the largest in Australia. With 800 interns coming through the ranks since 2017, NAB is looking to accelerate the initiative with ambitions to hire another 500 this year.
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NAB customers back digital improvements
Announcing the First Half FY 22 results, NAB CEO Ross McEwan said access to talent and rising costs could impact technology spend and sourcing strategy.
Responding to a journalist’s question on how inflation could impact NAB’s Tech Spend and Strategy, CEO Ross McEwan acknowledged the challenge in access to tech talent and revealed the costs could rise by about 2%.
Commenting on the tech strategy, Mr McEwan said “We are not immune from the fact that finding tech resources, particularly in the digital and data area is very, very difficult.
We do see the cost of these resources starting to move up and we’re having to think about how we acquire this talent into the organisation in different shapes and form, but I don’t think we’re immune from anybody else”.
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