Amazon Hiring Thousands Of Seasonal Texas Workers

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Amazon will soon start hiring for more than 5,500 seasonal and full-time roles for its customer fulfillment centers and delivery facilities in and around Texas — with pay set at its newly implemented $15 per hour minimum wage.

Amazon expects to make hundreds of on-the-spot job offers throughout the next 10 days and hopes these positions can be the start of a long career at Amazon, company officials said. Candidates can walk in, apply and receive a job offer on-the-spot at a hiring event or apply online: www.amazon.com/austinjobs.

About the Amazon Hiring Events

Dates: Wednesday, Oct. 10
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: Amazon Recruiting Office, 7600 Chevy Chase, Bldg 2, Ste #300, Austin, TX 78752

Job Details

Beginning November 1, the recently announced Amazon $15 minimum wage will apply to all hourly associates on top of Amazon’s industry-leading benefits, which apply to full-time, part-time, and seasonal associates. Full-time Amazon associates who stay with the company for a year will also have access to the innovative Career Choice program, which pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses in high-demand fields and flexible schedules and Career Skills, which trains hourly associates in critical job skills like resume writing, how to communicate effectively, and computer basics.

Applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Applicants can prepare by bringing I9 documentation to the hiring event. Acceptable I-9 documents can be found at: www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/acceptable-documents.

Amid mounting criticism spanning years, Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour last week. "We listened to our critics," company founder Jeff Bezos said in a prepared statement at the time, saying he also will lobby Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour. Bezos is the world's richest person with an estimated net worth of $112 billion, according to the newly released Forbes's 2018 Billionaires List.

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