Employee Selection at HSBC Bank: A comparison between the UK and Bangladesh

The rapid growth of globalization of business has led to a rising need to “internationalize” human resource managers within the bank and organization. Many large multinational banks like HSBC now see the international management experience as a precondition for advancement to senior management positions. In the absence of effective selection method human resource and line managers continue to use a variety of imperfect methods to aid the task of predicting which applicant will be most successful in meeting the demands of the job and/ or are the best fit the work group and culture of the Bank and organization. This is the reason why effective and modern selection methods are very important for human resource department. This paper explains the picture of literature to the discussion of the selection process at HSBC Bank with an comparison between the United Kingdom and Bangladesh, and the impact of cultural variation in the selection procedure as well.