Amazon Career Day 2021: More Than 1 Million People Apply for Jobs at Amazon
17 September 2021 - 08:00PM
Business Wire
Amazon recruiters offered 30,000 free
individual career coaching sessions with job seekers in a single
day
All participants who get hired as regular
full-time employees will receive the same core benefits, regardless
of their role, including health insurance starting on day one, a
401(k) plan with a company match, and up to 20 weeks of paid
parental leave
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that over 1 million people
applied for a job at Amazon as part of Career Day 2021. The virtual
event attracted job seekers from more than 170 countries around the
world. In the span of 24 hours, more than 2,000 Amazon recruiters
offered 30,000 individual career coaching sessions with
participants. The recruiters provided job seekers with professional
advice to start, transition, or grow their careers—whether they
wanted to work at Amazon or elsewhere.
“We know a lot of people are looking for work right now, and
many more are hoping to change their careers,” said Beth Galetti,
Amazon’s senior vice president of People eXperience and Technology.
“We are paying close attention to this and we feel uniquely
positioned to help—not only because of the tens of thousands of
jobs that we have open, but also for the opportunity we offer
people to build a meaningful career. We think Amazon is a great
place to work for those who crave the freedom to invent, the chance
to make a big impact, and an inclusive workplace to do so. We are
glad so many people joined Career Day to learn more about the jobs
we have to offer.”
Highlights from Amazon Career Day in the United States
include:
- More than 220,000 job seekers visited the event site and had
the chance to receive advice from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, top Wall
Street executive Carla Harris, New York Times best-selling author
David Epstein, and many more.
- Since announcing Career Day 2021 on September 1, Amazon has
received more than 500,000 job applications for corporate, tech,
and hourly roles in the U.S. Some of the most popular positions
among job seekers for tech roles were software development, IT,
support engineers, and operations management.
- Participants joined from all 50 states and had the opportunity
to learn directly from Amazon employees about the 40,000 open
corporate and tech roles and the 125,000 open jobs in Amazon’s
Operations network.
- Amazon recruiters offered more than 20,000 one-on-one career
coaching sessions to help attendees prepare for their next
job—including hundreds of additional sessions specifically for
Amazon employees in our Operations network looking to grow their
careers.
Working at Amazon
All Amazon regular full-time employees receive the same core
benefits, regardless of their role, level, or position—from the
company’s executives to front-line employees. This includes health
coverage starting on the employee’s first day on the job, a 401(k)
plan with a company match, up to 20 weeks of paid leave for
birthing parents, and more. In addition, eligible employees have
access to company-subsidized training opportunities including
Career Choice, which pays for full college tuition as well as GEDs,
high school diplomas, and associate degrees for hourly
employees.
Amazon was recently named by LinkedIn as the No. 1 company where
Americans want to work and develop their careers, and currently
ranks No. 2 on the World’s Best Employers list from Forbes and on
Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list. Amazon was also
selected by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for
Innovators. The company was awarded a top score on the Human Rights
Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, which recognizes
the best workplaces for the LGBTQ+ community, and granted the Lee
Anderson Veteran and Military Spouse Employment Award for
excellence in hiring, training, and retaining veterans,
transitioning service members, and military spouses. Amazon was
also named as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the
Disability Equality Index.
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. Amazon strives to
be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer,
and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click
shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by
Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire
tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology,
Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things
pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about
and follow @AmazonNews.
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