Its like army. There are 2 paths, the officer path and the
specialist path.
Management trainee is the officer path. In time, you will be
promoted to trainee bank officer, senior officer, assistant
manager, assist vice president, assistant vice presedent head, vice
president, senior vice president, executive vice president.
Basically assistant manager is muchiam our army's LTA. There arr
many many in a bank. AVP is also a relatively common
position.
For the specialist path, their positions ends with a "clerk" at
then end. Example like Clerk 1, clerk 2, graded clerk, special
graded clerk, etc.
If you were to apply into the "officer path", you;re generally
start from trainee bank officer (TBO). TBO to senior officer (SO)
usually takes 1 year. Then from SO to AM can be 2-5 years
depending.
Management trainee are special positions that rotates you in
different depts of a bank to understand the overall structure. You
may spend 6 months in business credit, 6 months in consumer
unsecured credit, 6 mths in customer assurance, 6 mths in treasure,
corporate finance, etc. These people are usually the "high
flyers".