By Richard Yerema and Kristina Leung, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editors
Highlights. Mediacorp editors have confirmed that this employer:
encourages ongoing employee development with generous tuition subsidies for courses taken at outside institutions, subsidies for professional accreditation, in-house and online training options and a formal mentoring program
starts new employees at three weeks of paid vacation allowance and offers up to six paid personal days-off during the year
a unique Canadian business success story that offers unique career prospects as part of Amazon.com, as well as the chance to live and work on beautiful Vancouver Island
provides maternity leave top-up payments for employees who are new mothers (to 70% of salary for 8 weeks) as well as health benefits coverage that extends during their leave
helps employees save for life after work with contributions to a matching RSP plan (up to 3% of salary)
Background Information
Industry:Electronic Shopping.
Stock symbol:AMZN.
Established:1996.
Parent company:Amazon.com, Inc..
Full-time employees in Canada:87.
Full-time worldwide:132.
Part-time employees in Canada:3.
Longest serving employee:11 years.
Number of applications received at this location last year:2,565.
Average age of all employees:34.83.
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