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People lined up for Amazon jobs as retail giant starts hiring surge
People lined up for Amazon jobs as retail giant starts hiring surge
TACOMA -- Amazon.com is hiring more than 1,000 part and full-time employees for its Kent fulfillment and sorting centers.
The Seattle-based tech giant says it will even make some on-the-spot job offers. Anyone interested can head to WorkSource Tacoma (1305 Tacoma Ave S, Ste 201) on Monday, May 22 from 1-4 p.m.
Amazon also says it will be at Green River College at the Kent Campus (417 Ramsay Way):
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Part-time employees at Amazon who work at least 20 hours per week receive benefits, including a program that pays most of the tuition for courses in "high-demand fields."
Amazon already has almost 40,000 part-time employees across the United States.
In January, Amazon announced plans to add more than 100,000 full-time jobs in the next year and a half, bringing its total U.S. work force to 280,000. Most of the new full-time jobs will be in warehouses and answering phones.
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