{"id":11604,"date":"2021-09-02T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:36:16","slug":"amazon-ceo-unveils-55000-tech-jobs-in-first-hiring-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/amazon-ceo-unveils-55000-tech-jobs-in-first-hiring-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon CEO Unveils 55,000 Tech Jobs in First Hiring Push"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently announced that the retail giant plans to hire 55,000 people globally for corporate and technology roles in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first press interview since taking over from Jeff Bezos, Jassy said the tech giant needed more firepower to keep up with demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s latest goal of launching satellites into orbit to improve broadband access is called Project Kuiper and could require a lot of hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Amazon&#8217;s annual jobs fair set to begin on September 15, Jassy says now is a good time to hire new blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new positions are primarily in engineering, research science and robotics roles, postings that are essentially new to the company and not vacancies created by former employees.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-amazon-ceo-unveils-55000-tech-jobs-first-hiring-push-under-his-watch-2021-09-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently announced that the retail giant plans to hire 55,000 people globally for corporate and technology roles in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-education","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}