In the next 18 months, Amazon is going to create a hundred thousand jobs in the United States. The new jobs will be open to people with varying skills and backgrounds.
According to a news article published by Bloomberg, the online commerce company is going to hire more than 100, 000 jobs. Last year alone, it hired an average of 6,400 people a month which is also 76,800 on average for the year.
What are the jobs available and who can apply? Jobs range from engineers, software developers, entry level positions, on the job trainings or internships. This news also affects aspiring entrepreneurs who can look to Marketplace and Amazon Flex to create jobs that would make it possible for them to start their own businesses and set their own work schedule at the same time.
Furthermore, the report stated that workers from diverse backgrounds, experiences, educational attainment, and level of skill are welcome. This suggests that not all of the jobs offered will require a technical background.
This announcement made great timing, says an analyst at Tigress Financial Partners LLC, Ivan Feinseth. The job growth will happen in the first year and a half of President Elect Donald J. Trump’s administration which ran on a platform of bringing jobs to Americans.
Amazon has now joined companies like Alibaba, IBM, and Ford who have also announced hiring sprees. This comes after the Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos of Amazon and other leading executives in the technology industry met with Trump in New York last December to talk about matters concerning immigration, jobs, as well as China.
The additional 100,000 jobs is positive and favorable news especially when Amazon has been criticized for stealing traditional retail jobs. Its new grocery, for instance, called Amazon Go runs on a cashier free system. Read here to know more about it.
