Friday, August 02, 2019

Amazon will upskill 100,000 of its US employees for in-demand jobs by 2025

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%).
   Highly skilled roles have increased over 400%, including jobs like logistics coordinator, process improvement manager, and transportation specialist.
Δρ. Κωνσταντίνος Μάντζαρης, Dr. Konstantinos Mantzaris, Economistmk

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