Amazon has pledged to hire over 100,000 U.S. veterans and military spouses by 2024. (Photo: Canonicalized.com)
On Tuesday, Amazon pledged to hire over 100,000 U.S. veterans and their spouses by 2024.
The pledge was made after Amazon announced it had “far exceeded its pledge to hire 25,000 [U.S. veterans] by 2021.” Currently, the company says it employs over 40,000 veterans and spouses throughout all of its core businesses. Of the 100,000 anticipated hires, Amazon expects 16,000 to be military spouses.
Amazon says it offers many benefits for veterans and military spouses, including deployment benefits, military spouse support, mentorships, fellowships, community groups, upskilling, free career transitioning assistance, and free technical training for careers in software engineering.
In Amazon’s initial Joining Forces pledge from 2016, the company announced that it had intended to hire over 25,000 veterans and spouses in addition to training over 10,000 veterans for technical careers involving cloud services through its AWS Educate program. It is unclear if Amazon met the latter goal.
The online retailer also notes that it has 35,000 open positions across the United States, including over 1,000 open positions at its new Southern California facilities. Readers can visit Amazon.jobs to learn more.
Author: Christian Southards
Coming from a family with a proud military background and wanting to contribute his writing skills to a worthy cause, Christian began writing for the California American Legion in August of 2020. His father is a 25-year Army Veteran and his grandfather served in the Navy during Vietnam.
