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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
497 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 April 2021
Employment effect (start)
5 April 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
The seven regional banks in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region belonging to the French group Crédit Agricole have announced the recruitment of 1,525 people in 2021, including 497 permanent jobs.
These jobs are aimed at graduates in banking and/or insurance, business or management, with a minimum of three years of higher education, but also at all other profiles motivated by the banking business. The other positions are mainly aimed at young people, with 272 positions on work-study contracts and 756 in the form of internships.
Crédit Agricole currently employs more than 12,300 employees across 1,080 branches in Nouvelle Aquitaine.
Eurofound (2021), Crédit Agricole, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 104598, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/104598.
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