Amazon announced that it will host its first-ever Career Day in India on September 16. This virtual and interactive event will bring together Amazon leadership and employees to share what makes Amazon an exciting workplace and what is it like to work here. Amazon also announced it is currently hiring for more than 8000 direct job openings across 35 cities in the country, including cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Noida, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Pune, Surat.
Career Day will feature interesting and informative sessions including a fireside chat with Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, who will share his own career experience and advice for job-seekers. Amit Agarwal, Global Senior Vice-President and Country Head of Amazon India will deliver the opening India keynote. At the event, 140 Amazon recruiters will conduct 2000 free, one-on-one career coaching sessions with job seekers across the country.
At the event, a powerful panel discussion will be held with Raghava Rao, Vice-President Finance & India CFO, Amazon, Puneet Chandok, President, Commercial Business, AWS India & South Asia, AISPL, and Mahendra Nerurkar, CEO, Amazon Pay India. The event will also feature a fireside chat with Akhil Saxena, Vice-President, Customer Fulfilment Operations, APAC, MENA & LATAM, who will talk about the spectrum of work opportunities that Amazon creates across the country.
