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Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has promoted 636 of its deserving staff, culminating in the promotion of 1,000 staff over the last three year in an exercise aimed at boosting the morale of its workforce. And in a bid to inject fresh blood into the system, a total of 360 entry trainees have also been recruited, bringing the total numbers of trainees employed over the last three years to 1,000 under the current management led by Mrs Funke Osibodu.In addition, the bank has concluded arrangement to hire 200 experienced professional staff in addition to 140 already hired over the last 3years in order to consolidate the repositioning exercise, which has lifted the lender into the league of the top banks in the country.The recent 360 entry levels staff recruited according to a statement from the bank, have commenced two months intensive training in 3 batches with the first batch of 120 very close to concluding their technical training, and the 2nd batch recently commencing same.A similar training was done for the 640 entry level staff initially employed two years ago. These group of 640 staff are now about to commenced another two and half weeks advance level training.To reward hard work, Union Bank has also commenced an appraisal system with payment of part of compensation based on performance. Consequently, staffers whose performance were assessed as below acceptable minimum standard are expected to exit the bank. It is gathered that some staff with poor performance have already been exited from the bank.