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Australia’s hiring blitz: More than ten thousand Christmas positions on offer
From pick-packing roles to BWS salespeople, the nation is looking for workers to help sell the Christmas spirit across the country.
If you are one of many job seeker’s looking for Christmas casual work, you’ve come to the right place.
E-commerce giant Amazon is on the hunt for 1,000 Aussie seasonal workers to assist with the fast-approaching Christmas rush.
The online retailer is looking for pick-packers and delivery drivers as shipping times draw to a bottleneck around the country.
The new hires will be distributed within three of the country’s major cities, with 400 based in Sydney, 600 in Melbourne and 100 positions available in Brisbane.
The US giant houses 12 logistic sites across the Aussie nation, along with five additional fulfillment centers.
A Christmas miracle for struggling job seekers
An influx in recruitment opportunities couldn’t have come at a better time for struggling Australians – many facing job cuts due to the pandemic.
Craig Fuller, director of operations at Amazon Australia, is proud that the company is actively working to employ new recruits – a commitment which could help lower the country’s unemployment rate.
“We are pleased to offer job opportunities across the country at a time when they are needed most,” Mr Fuller said.
“There are opportunities for motivated, enthusiastic people from all backgrounds and we look forward to welcoming them to our sites around Australia as we head into the holiday period.”
Employers want you! In more sectors than one
Their hiring blitz isn’t the first to take place in the country, with the e-commerce platform following tech giant JB Hi-Fi who are advertising 1,500 casual positions.
Retailers Coles, Woolworths and the Endeavour Group also have a joint total of more than 10,000 jobs on offer, most with immediate starts.
The delivery sector is also on the lookout for new employees in what’s their annual hiring spree for the Christmas trade period.
Australia Post is advertising 5,000 roles to assist in what they predict to be one of the biggest online shopping periods the country has ever experienced, according to Australia Post’s executive general manager of people and culture Sue Davies.
“At the moment, every day feels like Christmas at Australia Post and we’re on the lookout for people to join us and help deliver and process record volumes across the country.”
Sue Davies, executive general manager of people and culture Australia Post.
“We’re proud of the outstanding efforts of our people working hard across the country who keeping delivering and supporting communities through challenging circumstances, and we’re so pleased to be able to welcome more into this fantastic Australia Post team.”
More than two million parcels are delivered every day through Australia Post’s delivery services.
Written by Rebecca Borg
Two dozen staff and six customers were forced to stay the night at IKEA as up to 30 centimetres of snow trapped them inside
A furniture showroom in the department store in Aalborg, Denmark, became the bedroom of several people who were unable to safely make it home in time amidst a strong snowstorm.
Store Manager Peter Elmose told the Ekstra Bladet tabloid that people could “pick the exact bed they always have wanted to try.”
People working in a toy shop next door also took to the department store to join in on the fun.
Michelle Barrett, one of the toy shop staff, told Denmark’s public broadcaster, DR, “it’s much better than sleeping in one’s car. It has been nice and warm and we are just happy that they would let us in.”
“We just laughed at the situation, because we will probably not experience it again,” she added.
Another approximate 300 people had to stay the night at the Aalborg airport to keep out of the storm.
According to Euronews, the IKEA sleepover consisted of feasting on chips and Swedish cinnamon rolls in the staff canteen before watching television.
“It was a really nice evening, enjoying each other’s company,” Elmose told AFP.
“Everyone had a full night’s sleep, our mattresses are good.”
And when the shop reopened for business the next morning, all the bedding and sheets had of course been changed.
This comes after 61 people were trapped in a Yorkshire pub for three nights last week.
The several people trapped in the Tan Hill Inn during the storm slept on makeshift beds on the floor, watched movies, had a quiz night and enjoyed a buffet meal.
Some guests even claimed they didn’t want to leave the the pub after enjoying the 17th century hotel’s hospitality.
The aviation sector is widely known to be a high-emissions industry, with aircraft contributing to a growing pollution problem – but United Airlines just made history, in a brilliant way
United Airlines on Wednesday operated the world’s very first flight that used 100% sustainable aviation fuel, known as SAF.
Flying a jet with more than 100 passengers from Chicago to Washington, DC, the flight was the first commercial flight ever using only renewable fuel.
In a statement United Airlines said: United is the world leader in the usage and support for the development of SAF, an alternative fuel made with non-petroleum feedstocks, already having agreements to purchase nearly twice as much SAF as the known agreements of all other global airlines combined.
SAF has the potential to deliver the performance of petroleum-based jet fuel but with a fraction of its carbon footprint, and according to the U.S. Department of Energy, the country’s vast feedstock resources are enough to meet the projected fuel demand of the entire U.S. aviation industry.
“United continues to lead from the front when it comes to climate change action,”
United CEO Scott Kirby, who will fly onboard today’s historic SAF flight.
“Today’s SAF flight is not only a significant milestone for efforts to decarbonize our industry, but when combined with the surge in commitments to produce and purchase alternative fuels, we’re demonstrating the scalable and impactful way companies can join together and play a role in addressing the biggest challenge of our lifetimes.”
The airline boss noted.
Currently, airlines are only permitted to use a maximum of 50% SAF
The SAF used on the Dec. 1 flight is drop-in ready and compatible with existing aircraft fleets, United said.
The flight operated as a demonstration – to see how the jet would perform using only SAF fuel
The 737 MAX 8 used 500 gallons of SAF in one engine and the same amount of conventional jet fuel in the other engine “to further prove there are no operational differences between the two and to set the stage for more scalable uses of SAF by all airlines in the future,” United said.
United partnered with other companies including Virent, a subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum whose technology enables 100% drop-in SAF, and World Energy, the world’s first and North America’s only commercial SAF producer to make the flight possible.
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