- July 13, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
AmeriVet co-CEO Mercedes Elias discusses being a female veteran and current CEO on Wall Street.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon on Tuesday announced a commitment to hiring 100,000 veterans and military spouses over the next two and a half years.
The retail giant hopes to hire about 84,000 veterans and 16,000 military spouses by 2024.
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“Anecdotally, a lot of the veterans that I talk to — many of them raise their hand and defend the Constitution, and then they come out [of service], and they don’t know what to do, but they love the idea that they could be in a role that has real long-term value,” John Quintas, director of global military affairs at Amazon, told FOX Business of the hiring effort.
Amazon, which has hired more people over the last decade than any other U.S. company, made an initial commitment to hire 25,000 veterans over five years in 2016 and has since…
