Amazon Hiring 1,200 At 'Jobs Day' Event

KENT, WA - Looking for a job? Wednesday might be your lucky day. Amazon needs to hire 1,200 part- and full-time workers at its Kent, Sumner, and DuPont fulfillment centers, and it will be doing "on-the-spot" job offers on Wednesday, which the company is calling "Jobs Day."

The new Kent fulfillment center will be open for candidates to tour on Aug. 2 from 8 a.m. to noon. The company will be making job offers to people who drop by, so bring ID if you're interested in an offer that day. There's also a dress code: no open-toed shoes or heels, no dangling jewelry, and hair longer than shoulder-length (and beards longer than 3 inches) should be pinned up.

If you can't make it to the event on Wednesday, Amazon is also accepting applications online. You can search for jobs in the valley area online here.

In January, Amazon announced that it would hire 100,000 workers across the U.S. through 2018. Amazon held a hiring event in Tacoma in May to hire about 1,000 people for the Kent warehouses.

Full-time workers can get benefits like health insurance and retirement savings. Amazon also offers full-time workers a benefit called "Career Choice," which pays up to 95 percent of the cost of tuition for an in-demand field, like nursing or IT careers.

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