According with Amazon, the company will invest over 700 million dollars
to provide upskilling training programs for one in three of its employees
across the United States. Training will help to move into highly skilled
technical and non-technical roles across the company’s corporate offices, tech
hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network, or pursue
career paths outside of Amazon.
Amazon’s employee Upskilling
2025 investment program builds on company’s 15-dollar minimum wage (the white
house just voted on Thursday 18/7 to raise the federal minimum wage to
15-dollar an hour by 2025) and comprehensive benefits including medical
insurance, 401k savings plan, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave. Amazon
has already a variety options of programs, including:
- Amazon Technical Academy: Which equips non-technical Amazon employees
with the essential skills to transition into, and thrive in, software
engineering careers.
- Associate2Tech: Which trains fulfillment center associates to move
into technical roles regardless of their previous IT experience.
- Machine Learning University: Offering employees with technical
backgrounds the opportunity to access machine learning skills via an on-site
training program.
- Amazon Career Choice: A pre-paid tuition program designed to train
fulfillment center associates in high-demand occupations of their choice.
- Amazon Apprenticeship: A Department of Labor certified program that
offers paid intensive classroom training and on-the-job apprenticeships with
Amazon.
- AWS Training and Certification: Which provide employees with courses
to build practical AWS Cloud knowledge that is essential to operating in a technical field.
Company’s jobs and analysis of hiring data from its US workforce shows that Amazon’s fastest growing highly skilled jobs over the last five years are: data mapping specialist (832% growth), data scientist (505%), solutions architect (454%), security engineer (229%), and business analyst (160%).
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