With the gift-giving season fast approaching, UPS has announced it intends to hire a staggering 55,000 additional employees to handle the anticipated increase in package delivery volume.
The temporary jobs that UPS will be filling include driver helpers, package sorters, loaders and unloaders, the company said.
UPS anticipates its busiest shipping day will be Thursday, Dec. 22, when delivery volume will near 26 million packages.
The Atlanta-based company is among the latest of the nation’s large employers to announce thousands of seasonal hires.
UPS boasts at their website:
“We support our part-time employees with full-time benefits, exposure to an incredible range of opportunities and training programs and a practice of promoting from within. Here you’ll have the freedom to change your role any number of times, while working for a company whose reliability is second to none. Your passion for innovation, and the pride that comes with doing what you do best, will be rewarded at every level. UPSers are hardworking, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. You’ll fit right in.”
