Amazon Announces Career Day 2020: 33,000 Corporate & Tech Jobs Open Across the U.S., plus 20,000 Free Career Coaching Session...
September 09 2020 - 8:35AM
Business Wire
Nationwide event on September 16 open to all
job seekers – with a team of 1,000 Amazon recruiters offering
20,000 free career coaching sessions in a single day
Company currently has 33,000 job openings for
corporate and tech positions supporting areas that include Alexa,
AWS, Operations Technology, and Prime Video – with thousands of
additional hourly roles in Amazon’s Operations network to be
announced soon
All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay
and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour,
health insurance, up to 20 weeks of parental leave, and
company-funded upskilling opportunities
New survey shows 61% of American job seekers
are looking for work in a different industry; one third see
learning new technical skills as key to landing their next job
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it will host its 2020
Career Day on Wednesday, September 16. As a part of the nationwide
virtual event, Amazon – the largest job creator in the U.S. over
the last decade – will give attendees the opportunity to learn
about the 33,000 corporate and tech jobs currently available across
the country, and the thousands of additional hourly positions in
the company’s operations network to be announced soon. Amazon will
also mobilize 1,000 of its recruiters to provide 20,000 career
coaching sessions to attendees in a single day. Anyone can
participate in Career Day 2020 by going to amazon.jobs/careerday to
register and book an appointment with an Amazon recruiter.
With many people left unemployed by the economic impact of
COVID-19 and searching for new jobs, Career Day is designed to
support all job seekers, regardless of their level of experience,
professional field, or background – or whether they are looking for
a job at Amazon or another company. On top of the 20,000 one-on-one
coaching sessions, Career Day also includes three hours of
mainstage programming that will feature fireside chats, panel
discussions, and interviews with leading career-advice experts and
Amazon executives. Starting today, participants will be able to
register for live software-code review workshops, as well as
breakout sessions to learn more about jobs in Amazon’s growing
logistics network.
“COVID-19 continues to affect millions of people across the
country, and people are eager for the opportunity to get back to
work,” said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at
Amazon. “We’ve created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade
than any other company – and we are continuing to hire people from
all backgrounds and at all skill levels. We are glad to be able to
mobilize more than 1,000 experienced recruiters and HR
professionals to help job seekers across the country learn about
opportunities at Amazon and elsewhere.”
Last year, 17,000 job seekers attended Amazon Career Day events
in six U.S. cities – and more than 200,000 people applied for jobs
in the week leading up to the event. Building on that success,
Amazon is taking the event virtual and opening Amazon Career Day
2020 to everyone, regardless of their location. The event will give
participants the chance to:
- Receive individualized career coaching. A team of 1,000
Amazon recruiters will conduct 20,000 free, one-on-one career
coaching sessions with job seekers across the country. Attendees
will be able to select their fields of interest: hourly roles; tech
and non-tech positions at the company’s headquarters, corporate
offices, and Tech Hubs; jobs for veterans; and opportunities for
students and recent graduates. Amazon will match the attendees with
an appropriate recruiter to help them prepare for their next
job.
- Discover new tools to navigate the current job market.
The mainstage event will be headlined by award winning television
host, activist, and life coach Karamo Brown and former professional
football player and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who will share
their personal stories of career change and overcoming adversity.
Attendees will also hear from recruiting experts and career coaches
giving advice on how they can adapt their skills and experiences,
build their professional brands, and reimagine their resumes in
order to improve their chances of landing a job.
- Learn more about open roles at Amazon. Participants will
be able to apply for a wide range of roles at Amazon, with
recruiters on hand to talk about entry-level positions in the
company’s operations network; corporate roles at its 18 Tech Hubs;
as well as engineering, data science, marketing, human resources,
and finance roles that support Alexa, AWS, Operations Technology,
and Prime Video. Amazon leaders Kara Hurst, Vice President
Worldwide Sustainability; David Bozeman, Vice President Amazon
Transportation Services; and Cherris Armour, Director of Amazon
Worldwide Operations will discuss their roles and share insights
about Amazon’s culture. Attendees will also be able to learn more
about Amazon’s industry-leading employee pay and benefits –
including a $15-an-hour minimum wage, comprehensive healthcare from
day one, 401(k) matching, up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave,
and access to the Upskilling 2025 program, Amazon’s $700 million
commitment to upskill 100,000 employees for higher-wage, in-demand
jobs.
- Participate in interactive Amazon career workshops.
Attendees will have the opportunity to join smaller breakout
sessions for those interested in hourly opportunities at Amazon’s
fulfillment centers and physical stores, led by staffing
specialists, and live coding reviews with senior Amazon software
development engineers.
Majority of American job seekers looking for a job in a
different industry due to COVID-19
Half of the Americans currently looking for a new job (53%) have
been forced to do so because of COVID-19, according to a new
Morning Consult survey on job-seeker insights commissioned by
Amazon. A majority of those job seekers are trying to transition
into fields such as healthcare and technology, sectors that
Americans expect to continue to grow and hire. Research shows how
the pandemic has prompted 61 percent of job seekers to look for a
job in a different industry than they currently work, while 36
percent feel their current job does not utilize their main skills
or training.
The Morning Consult survey also found that more than one-quarter
of American workers (27%) expect that some or all of their current
skills will become irrelevant in the next five years, with nearly
half of job seekers willing to quit their jobs to go to another
company if that employer provides company-funded upskilling
training. Of those looking for work, almost a third see learning
technical skills as the most important tool to help them land their
next job. Learn more about the Amazon Job Seeker survey here.
Working at Amazon
With more than 875,000 employees worldwide, Amazon has been
consistently recognized on LinkedIn’s Top Companies, currently
ranks #2 in the Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies, and was
selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for
Innovators. Amazon has more than 600,000 full- and part-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 two
dozen Amazon Go, 4 Star and Amazon Books retail stores. Since 2010,
Amazon has invested more than $350 billion in the U.S., including
infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about Amazon’s
economic impact across the U.S. here.
On top of the company’s direct hires, there are more than 2
million businesses, content creators, developers and delivery
providers in the U.S. using Amazon products and services to start
or grow their careers. Small and medium-sized businesses selling
their products on Amazon.com have created more than 1.1 million
jobs. There are more than 700,000 developers building skills for
Alexa, last-mile and middle-mile delivery partners working with
Amazon employ more than 95,000 drivers across the country, and
hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have
self-published millions of books through Kindle Direct
Publishing.
For more information about Career Day 2020 – including how to
register for the event, book your one-on-one session with an Amazon
recruiter, and apply for open roles – visit
amazon.jobs/careerday.
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
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