United States: Amazon seeks 30,000 employees in a saturated labor market

To know the priorities of a company, follow its needs. As we approach its Amazon career day, a major hiring operation to be held on September 17 across the United States, Amazon has
lifted the veil on vacancies

   . And the e-tailer is looking for … 30,000 new employees to strengthen its workforce.

Engineers, coders, freight specialists, full-time or part-time: the offers are diverse and concern mainly two divisions, the cloud and the delivery of parcels.

Two particularly strategic sectors for the Seattle firm. AWS (Amazon Web Services), the undisputed world leader in online server rental, last year was worth $ 31 billion (and especially 59% of Amazon's profits). A thriving golden egg hen Andy Jassy, ​​the boss of computer activities, does not exclude to see becoming
more important than the distribution

    futures. Which requires additional forces.

Shortage of manpower

Another big project for the giant: Amazon Prime Now, the subscriber delivery service that Jeff Bezos promised
standardize at 24 hours

    and which must allow him to do without his suppliers. Why FedEx, which sees emerge a future competitor, has
declared war

    a few weeks ago.

Amazon is investing heavily in this –
$ 800 million in the second quarter

    – with in particular
Ordered in June of 15 Boeing 737-800

    to complete its fleet, which already includes 45 aircraft. An airport is being built in Cincinnati to serve as a relay point and the firm plans to open three new air cargo centers in Fort Worth, Texas, Wilmington, Ohio and Rockford, Illinois.

Innovative and unforgiving methods

The recruitment campaign could, however, come up against a major obstacle: the shortage of manpower. The unemployment rate, which has stalled at 3.7% for three months, is at its lowest for almost 50 years – although the number of job creations was lower than expected in August.

And the company is not particularly well-known for its working conditions, both for warehouses and managers, who have to deal with the management's innovative and unforgiving management methods.

The company takes care to be more attractive: the minimum hourly wage was raised a year ago to 15 dollars, and a vast plan of training staff, amounting to 700 million dollars, has been undertaken this summer.

Amazon is one of the largest US employers, with approximately 300,000 employees working across the Atlantic (out of a total of 650,000 worldwide). On the occasion of the call for competition for its second North American headquarters, two years ago, the company had said it planned to create 50,000 new jobs in the United States. Other ads could follow.