When Will Ups Be Hiring Again
By Jeff Berman, Grouping News Editor · September 9, 2021
Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services titan UPS today rolled out a big part of its Peak Season playbook, announcing that it expects to rent more than than 100 essential seasonal employees, in an endeavour to back up an predictable pregnant uptick in bundle book, from next month through January. UPS said the openings it will be filling are for diverse positions, including: full- and part-fourth dimension seasonal positions—primarily package handlers, drivers, commuter helpers and personal vehicle drivers—adding it is offering competitive wages across multiple shifts in hundreds of locations beyond the country. "Nosotros're preparing for another safe, record peak holiday flavour. With COVID-19 continuing to impact Americans, our services are more than important than ever," said Nando Cesarone, President, U.S. Operations, in a statement. "We plan to rent more than 100,000 people for seasonal jobs, many of whom will have an offer in hand within xxx minutes of applying. Our seasonal hires will help us provide the most reliable service in the industry, just like we did last year." What'south more than, while these job opportunities are for the upcoming holiday peak, the company said that, in many cases, they lead to total-time career opportunities, besides. As an example, UPS noted that going dorsum over the last three years, roughly one-tertiary of the people UPS hired for seasonal package handler jobs subsequently took on permanent positions for UPS, later the holidays. And it also observed that roughly 138,000 current UPS staffers, or about one-3rd of its total workforce, began their UPS careers in seasonal roles. A UPS spokesperson told LM that the company's approach to seasonal hiring is somewhat different when compared to pre-pandemic times, in that it has had high levels of demand and volume, going back to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, while describing UPS's Peak Season as absolutely unique. "Our volume goes from an average of near 20 meg packages per twenty-four hour period to somewhere close to doubling," he said. "And in that location is still a tiptop later the holidays, due to holiday gift cards that contribute to post-holiday sales and besides returns. Nosotros keep our seasonal hires through January, which is unique, as most retailers typically cutting their seasonal aid loose on December 24. Equally for what is new, in regards to its approach to seasonal hiring this yr compared to past years, the spokesperson said that UPS used to invest near 80% of its ad dollars for employment advertising through traditional channels, including print, telly and other traditional outlets, as recent equally four years agone. "That has since completely flipped, to the betoken where it is closer to 80% or 90% and is done digitally or through social [media] channels," he said. "About lxx% of everybody nosotros hire right now applies and gets hired through their cell phones. That is a sea change, in terms of what we are starting to call our digital arroyo, for hiring and other aspects of how nosotros nor run our business. Digital is at present condign a principal focus." Another primal approach to seasonal hiring, the UPS spokesperson said, is finding people where they live and spend their time, which is largely on social media, smart phones, and tablet devices. And equally UPS executive Cesarone explained that a prospective rent tin receive a job offer within xxx minutes of applying, the spokesman said that every bit recently every bit concluding year, that procedure could take up to two weeks, depending on the location, the person, background checks, and other factors. "What UPS did was strip out anything that is not essential to the awarding and job offering process," he said. "Not everyone has two hours to fill out an awarding and do the question-and- respond procedure. Speed and brevity—in less than 30 minutes—is the new mantra. It took some back-terminate piece of work and Information technology investment, which took more than a year, to become things to where they are correct now. It was a major effort, and I know our HR people are really proud of it. You need to be quick, we are trying for mass penetration here, and you accept to do everything within your ability to make the procedure easy and friendly." With a 114-twelvemonth history every bit a company, the spokesman observed that UPS has a very good handle on hiring people, equally it has navigated various ups and downs, in the form of economic depressions, recessions, globe wars, and other challenges like COVID-nineteen pandemic over that span. But what it is going through now, he said, is very unique and infinitely challenging. "It is the tightest labor market ever," he said. "The primal is differentiation, and I think that is something nosotros have become very good at [as a visitor]. One of the ways nosotros differentiate ourselves from other companies that hire for the holidays and are looking for talent is that our seasonal jobs very often lead to careers."
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Jeff Berman, Group News Editor
Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Direction Review. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis. Contact Jeff Berman
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