By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
NEW YORK — United Parcel Service stated Wednesday it plans to rent greater than 100,000 additional employees to assist deal with a rise in packages through the crucial vacation season.
That’s much like the vacation seasons of 2021 and 2020. Holiday-season volumes often begin rising in October and stay excessive into January. The hiring plans come as on-line purchasing has slowed after a pandemic-induced surge, however the figures are nonetheless properly above pre-pandemic ranges.
UPS stated the openings will probably be for full- and part-time seasonal positions, and they’re primarily package deal handlers, drivers and driver helpers. UPS promotes the seasonal jobs as ones that may result in year-round employment, saying lately that roughly 35% of individuals for seasonal package-handling jobs find yourself in everlasting positions.
The firm additionally stated it has additional streamlined the job hiring course of and touts that it takes simply 25 minutes for most individuals – from filling out a web-based utility to receiving a job provide, in response to Danelle McCusker Rees, the president of human relations at UPS, who started her profession with the corporate as a seasonal employee. That’s down from half-hour a 12 months in the past, she stated. Also, practically 80% of seasonal positions don’t require an interview, up from 75% a 12 months in the past.
Rees informed The Associated Press in an interview on Tuesday that she sees the job market as simply as aggressive as a 12 months in the past.
Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, about what economists had anticipated, down from a median 487,000 a month over the previous 12 months, in response to a authorities report final week.
The jobless fee reached 3.7%, its highest stage since February. But it elevated for a wholesome motive: Hundreds of 1000’s of individuals went again to the job market, and a few didn’t discover work straight away, which boosted the federal government’s rely of unemployed folks.
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