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DBS: Strategic Hiring
DBS is significantly expanding young talent recruitment, hiring over 500 people this year (more than double previous years) across Management Associate, Internship and Traineeship programmes as AI transforms banking operations
Source: Business Times SG
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening the sector executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 107.4 (Hot) (down 1.7 month-on-month), Asia is at steady (+0.3pts) on signal share.
DBS: 1 signal in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow.
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