ING Launches Global Management Recruitment Programme in China

ING Launches Global Management Recruitment Programme in China

BEIJING, April 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- ING today announced the roll-out of its global management trainee programme in China as the company steps up its efforts to attract talented individuals to build up ING's organizational capabilities and help support the growth of ING's six businesses in the country.

The announcement came as part of ING's partnership with CCTV2 in "Absolute Challenge", a television recruitment programme in which ING today short-listed three finalists. These three participants now go forward to the next round of the competition which is to be decided in July 2006, with the winner awarded an employment contract with ING as a brand management trainee for its insurance and asset management activities in China. The ING recruitment drive originally began in March 2006 and attracted over 2,000 applications.

ING Insurance Asia/Pacific's global management trainee programme offers candidates the opportunity to participate in a structured development programme which integrates job assignments, workshops and in-class training. The programme has proved successful across the world and the roll-out to China is aimed at helping ING build out its leadership pipeline, while giving local management graduates an opportunity to have a challenging and rewarding career in one of the world's largest global financial services company.

Mr. Bartholomew Ng, Country Manager for China, ING Insurance Asia/Pacific stated: "Since the establishment of our first insurance representative office in Beijing in 1993, ING has been actively involved in training local graduates in the field of financial services in cooperation with major universities, including Beijing University, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Guangxi Normal University and Shanghai Jiaotong University. This year, we are stepping up those efforts through the introduction of this structured programme which nurtures the careers of talented management graduates, providing them with the skill set necessary to achieve a company's global ambitions and offering them the opportunity to work in an international financial services company."

ING currently operates in ten cities in China. Pacific Antai Life Insurance Company, ING's first life-insurance joint venture, operates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Nanhai and Shunde. ING Capital Life, ING's second life-insurance joint venture, is active in Dalian, Beijing, Shenyang and is currently setting up operations in Jinan. Other ING businesses in China include retail banking through its 19.9% stake in Bank of Beijing; corporate and investment banking through ING Wholesale Banking; and asset management through China Merchants Fund Management, based in Shenzhen and the largest foreign joint-venture fund manager, and ING Real Estate, which develops and manages properties in Beijing and Shanghai.

ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management to over 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in more than 50 countries. With a diverse workforce in excess of 115,000 people, ING comprises a broad spectrum of prominent companies that increasingly serve their clients under the ING brand.

Press enquiries:

ING Asia/Pacific
Karen Williams
Tel: +852-2913-8536
Email: karen.williams@ap.ing.com

Polly Leung
Tel: +852-2913-8792
Email: polly.leung@ap.ing.com

Source: ING

CONTACT: Karen Williams of ING, +852-2913-8536, or
karen.williams@ap.ing.com

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