I don't know why almost every graduate wants to work in a bank. There is a misconception here. The money clients deposit in the bank is not for the bankers, it still is owned by the client. Their salaries are nothing to write home about added to the stress and pressure.

The only advantage I may say is they have loan facilities (which have interest). You can take a car loan or house loan and pay over time (years). So what great about driving a car that you haven't paid for?

My gal is a banker. My kid brother is a banker. They are both currently looking for other jobs. So tell me, whats all the fuss about?

No fuss. It's just a job like any other.

First off, there's a difference between bankers and bank workers

oyb:

First off, there's a difference between bankers and bank workers 

Damn right. Like 95% of the so called 'bankers' are actually other-professionals that happen to work in a bank: cashiers, clerks, salesmen, IT technicians, computer operators, etc.

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What actually led to 'all the fuss' as you call it was that from the 90's through to the expansion of the economy during the Obasanjo years, banks were the biggest employers of labour in the country, and their pay scale was way ahead of other sectors of the economy (except oil & gas).

Their employment policies were also quite liberal, they took anybody so long as you had a minimum of 2:2 university degree, naturally everyone wanted to work for them. But now that Sanusi has brought down the hammer on the feeding frenzy things are surely going to change.

and maybe because they are part of the group that pay actual living wages- apart from Oil N gas, Telcoms and some I.T

and they absorb quite a large number of graduate at a certain time

Going back to the OP< I'm not sure every graduate would want to work in a bank, but for the reasons posited here:

Dis Guy:

and maybe because they are part of the group that pay actual living wages- apart from Oil N gas, Telcoms and some I.T

and they absorb quite a large number of graduate at a certain time

Outside that, I doubt if most graduates would work in a bank if there were other equally-viable opportunities.