Amazon Career Day 2020 – More Than 300,000 People Attended the Event and Over 380,000 Applied for a Job at Amazon
17 September 2020 - 8:30PM
Business Wire
Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 free 1-on-1
career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country in a
single day
All Amazon jobs come with industry-leading pay
and competitive benefits – including a minimum wage of $15/hour,
health insurance from day one, up to 20 weeks of paid parental
leave, and company-funded upskilling opportunities
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that over 300,000 people
attended Amazon Career Day yesterday. Additionally, a
record-setting 384,000 people applied for a job at Amazon in the
U.S. and Canada over the last week since the event was announced.
In the span of 24 hours, Amazon recruiters completed over 20,000
1-on-1 career coaching sessions with participants, and another
6,000 people joined group breakout sessions.
Americans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico attended Amazon Career Day, an online event designed to help
people – regardless of their level of experience, professional
field, or background – get advice, insights, and information to
help them find new opportunities either at Amazon or another
company.
“Our vision for Career Day was to help job seekers from all
walks of life and career stages fulfill their professional goals,
using our scale to support those who need it the most,” said Beth
Galetti, Senior Vice President of HR at Amazon. “We have tens of
thousands of jobs available – from roles in finance, robotics,
software development or AI, to entry-level positions with highly
competitive pay and benefits across our operations network. We’re
looking forward to welcoming many Career Day participants to Amazon
as full-time employees in the coming months.”
Amazon Career Day highlights include:
- Over 300,000 job seekers attended the event and discovered new
tools to navigate the job market and learn about the 33,000
corporate and tech roles available at Amazon, as well as the
100,000 open positions across the company’s operations
network.
- Participants joined from all 50 U.S. states, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico – with over 55,000 attending from
California alone.
- Since announcing Career Day on September 9, Amazon has received
more than 384,000 job applications for roles at the company in the
U.S. and Canada – 38 job applications every minute.
- Amazon recruiters conducted 20,000 1-on-1 career coaching
sessions to help attendees prepare for their next job, providing a
total of 6,600 hours of advice. Job seekers filled the 20,000 slots
within 12 hours of Amazon making them available.
- More than 3,600 attendees participated in interactive coding
review workshops hosted by senior Amazon software development
engineers, and 2,600 joined breakout sessions dedicated to hourly
opportunities at Amazon’s fulfillment centers and physical
stores.
- Attendees asked more than 7,000 questions to the participating
HR experts, career coaches, and industry leaders.
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
in infrastructure and employee compensation. Learn more about
Amazon’s economic impact across the U.S. here.
On top of the company’s employees, 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. There are also hundreds of
thousands of authors from around the world have self-published
millions of books through Kindle Direct Publishing.
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 and follow @AmazonNews.
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