Amazon announces the launch of rekindle, an initiative to encourage women on a professional break, to resume their career. Through this initiative, the aim’s to provide opportunities to support women, who intend to professionally re-integrate and recommence their job.
As per Gender Diversity Benchmark for Asia 2011 report, female employees represent a very small percentage in the total workforce (29 per cent) and constitute the largest talent pipeline leakage (percentage reduction in female employees while moving from junior to middle management or middle to senior management). It has been observed that Indian female employees are giving up their careers sooner in comparison with other Asian countries.
The rprogramme offers them flexible work options including work from home, and flexible shift options depending on the role. It will offer roles that allow a flexible work arrangement and at the same time provide an opportunity to perform effectively on the job such as live projects across different functional areas including Technology, Operations as well as support functions like HR, Finance and legal etc.
The rekindle programme is open to any candidate who has prior experience that matches the job requirements for the identified positions. Candidates will go through a structured assessment process comprising of a telephonic interview and multiple in-person interviews. Basis the performance during these interviews, final hiring decision will be made for the position. Once the selected candidates are on-boarded, Amazon.in will help them get assimilated into the Amazon culture and way of business with rekindle Mentoring Programme. The mentoring engagement will include a series of developmental conversations spread over five months, where each of the identified areas is progressively worked upon.