Amazon Career Day – More Than 200,000 Applications for Jobs at Amazon
September 18 2019 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that since announcing
Career Day last week the company has received more than 208,000 job
applications online for roles in the U.S. Yesterday, Amazon held
Career Day events in Arlington, Va., Boston, Nashville, Dallas,
Chicago, and Seattle to help candidates learn more about
opportunities at Amazon.
Amazon Career Day highlights include:
- Thousands of job seekers visited Amazon’s Career Day events
across the country, with more than 5,000 visitors in Arlington,
Va., the site of the company’s second headquarters in North
America.
- Since announcing Career Day, Amazon received over 208,000
applications for roles in the U.S. – more than 18 job applications
every minute.
- Amazon recruiters conducted more than 4,500 interview-training
sessions with candidates and reviewed over 7,000 resumes on site
providing tips to candidates on how to best highlight their
experience and skills.
“People across the country understand the value of Amazon jobs
with $15 minimum wage, full benefits from day one, and upskilling
opportunities, and they demonstrated that by submitting more than
208,000 applications for careers at Amazon in the past week,” said
Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of HR at Amazon.
In addition to learning about the variety and availability of
jobs at Amazon, attendees also discovered how they can start their
business using Amazon’s services and tools – from joining the more
than one million small and medium-size businesses in the U.S. that
sell their products on Amazon, to publishing their book and
monetizing their creative ideas, to creating their own delivery
company by becoming an Amazon Delivery Service Partner.
With more than 650,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been
recognized on LinkedIn’s Top Companies list for the past four
years, ranked #2 in the Fortune 2017 and 2018 World’s Most Admired
Companies, #5 in Fast Company's 2018 World’s Most Innovative
Companies and 2019 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators. Amazon has
more than 300,000 full-time employees in the U.S., across more than
40 states and 250 different counties, two headquarters, 18 Tech
Hubs, more than 150 fulfillment centers, sortation centers and
delivery stations, and more than three dozen Amazon Go, Amazon
4-star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010, Amazon has
invested more than $270 billion in the U.S., including
infrastructure and compensation to our employees. Learn more about
Amazon’s economic impact across the U.S. here.
Amazon provides highly competitive benefits to all full-time
employees — from the company’s most senior executives to its hourly
fulfillment center associates — including comprehensive healthcare
from day one, 401(k) matching, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental
leave. Through its Upskilling 2025 initiative, Amazon has also
committed $700 million to programs aiming to provide its employees
with the skills they need for new, in-demand jobs, from paid cloud
computing apprenticeships to its Career Choice program, which
pre-pays 95% of tuition for courses in in-demand fields, regardless
of whether skills are relevant to a career at Amazon.
About Amazon
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than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
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