The Amazonians delivering customer orders have stories as diverse as they are.
Sarah Freeman joined Amazon's operations network in Charlotte after shutting down her business, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amazon hired an incredible volume of workers to handle a surge of online orders throughout the pandemic.
Leadership ambitions at Amazon
Initially, Sarah secured a temporary warehouse job at Amazon but figured it was a stopgap. “I thought this is just a means to an end until I figure out a better solution.” Realizing she enjoyed the role, she decided to stay and has ambitions to become a department manager.
Sarah worked at a center that received packages from vendors, sorted them and sent them to distribution centers to be shipped to customers. She scanned the packages, placed them on a pallet and moved the pallet to a holding area.
After three months as a temporary employee, Sarah became a permanent staffer. “You can move up in the world," she says of the workplace culture at Amazon.
Hiring further employees
Amazon is constantly expanding its workforce, searching for more people like Sarah to join its dynamic teams.
“We’re looking for employees who are enthusiastic, hard-working and concerned with customer service,” says Ofori Agboka, Amazon’s Vice President of Human Resources, Global Customer Fulfillment. “They bring their backgrounds and we train them.”
Read the full article featured by USA Today covering Sarah's journey.
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