Amazon Now Hiring for Over 120,000 Jobs in the U.S. This Holiday Season
October 12 2017 - 6:01AM
Business Wire
Every year, thousands of holiday positions lead
to regular, full-time roles with the company
Amazon has created tens of thousands of new
full-time jobs this year across its U.S. fulfillment network that
offer highly competitive wages and benefits
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it is creating more than
120,000 positions this season across its U.S. network of
fulfillment centers, sortation centers and customer service sites.
Last year, thousands of holiday positions were transitioned to
regular, full-time roles after the holidays and the company expects
to continue that trend this year.
“We prepare year round for the holidays and we’re excited to
hire for over 120,000 positions this season to help delight our
customers,” said Dave Clark, Amazon Senior Vice President of Global
Customer Fulfillment. “We look forward to welcoming back holiday
employees who return year-after-year to Amazon and welcome new
faces to the team, many of whom will continue on with regular,
full-time roles with the company after the holidays.”
Amazon positions are available in the following states:
-- Alabama -- Nevada -- Arizona -- New
Hampshire -- California -- New Jersey -- Colorado -- New York --
Connecticut -- North Carolina -- Delaware -- Ohio -- Florida --
Oklahoma -- Georgia -- Oregon -- Illinois -- Pennsylvania --
Indiana -- South Carolina -- Kansas -- Tennessee -- Kentucky --
Texas -- Maryland -- Utah -- Massachusetts -- Virginia -- Michigan
-- Washington -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Missouri
New employees will join the more than 125,000 regular, full-time
employees at Amazon’s more than 75 fulfillment centers across the
country to help pick, pack and ship customers’ holiday orders. So
far this year, Amazon has created tens of thousands of new
full-time roles in its fulfillment and customer service centers.
Throughout the year on average, 90 percent of associates across the
company’s U.S. fulfillment network are regular, full-time
employees.
In addition to highly competitive wages, Amazon provides
employees with highly competitive pay, health insurance, disability
insurance, retirement savings plans and company stock. The company
also offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave and innovative benefits
such as Leave Share and Ramp Back, which give new parents
flexibility with their growing families. Leave Share lets employees
share their Amazon paid leave with their spouse or domestic partner
if their spouse’s employer does not offer paid leave. Ramp Back
gives new moms additional control over the pace at which they
return to work. Just as with Amazon’s health care plan, these
benefits are egalitarian – they are the same for fulfillment center
and customer service employees as they are for Amazon’s most senior
executives. In addition, our hourly fulfillment center employees
are eligible for Amazon’s innovative Career Choice program that
pre-pays 95 percent of the cost of tuition for courses related to
in-demand fields, regardless of whether those skills are related to
jobs at Amazon. To date, more than 10,000 employees have taken the
next step in pursuing their passion with career re-training through
the Career Choice program.
With more than 200,000 employees in the U.S., Amazon ranks #1 on
Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, #2 on Fortune’s World’s
Most Admired Companies, #1 on The Harris Poll’s Corporate
Reputation survey, and #2 on LinkedIn’s U.S. Top Companies list.
Amazon was also recently included in the Military Times’ Best for
Vets list of companies committed to providing opportunities for
military veterans.
Candidates interested in available positions can learn more and
apply online at www.amazon.com/peakjobs.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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