Amazon commits 30,000 jobs to young people in the UK by 2030—no experience required

Summary

• Amazon launched The Amazon Youth Promise in the UK, committing 30,000 entry-level roles to young people from areas with the least opportunities by 2030.
• All roles start at more than £31,000 ($42,000) a year pro rata, include private medical insurance, & offer a pension from day one.
• The initiative targets operational roles such as picking, packing, & shipping across more than 100 Amazon sites in the UK.
• Jobs do not require a CV or prior work experience, aiming to reach the approximately one million young people in the UK not in education, employment, or training.
• Amazon will treble work experience places from around 900 in 2026 to more than 3,000 a year by 2030, totaling over 10,000 placements.
• Work experience options include one-week placements for school students, three-week online T Level team projects, & 45-day T Level industry programs.
• Amazon is expanding pre-employment programs like the JOBS Project with Barnardo's to support 2,000 young people from 2027 to 2030.
• Supported internships with DFN Project SEARCH will quadruple by 2030 to support more than 1,000 young people with learning disabilities & autism across more than 40 sites.
• Amazon signed up to the UK government's Youth Guarantee & will collaborate with the Department for Work and Pensions to expand program reach.
• Recruitment events held last year allowed young people to apply without a CV, with more than 2,800 people starting work after attending events in the past 12 months.
• New recruitment events tailored for young job seekers will expand in 2027 in areas including Merseyside, Stoke-on-Trent, Greater Manchester, & South Yorkshire.
• Every unsuccessful applicant aged 18 to 24 will receive a follow-up email with practical guidance, links to free support organizations, & a direct link to reapply.
• Amazon is investing in technology skills through the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance, aiming to prepare 100,000 learners with AI skills by 2030.
• Almost half of people who joined Amazon's operations teams last year came straight from education or unemployment.