Walmart recently announced career paths that stand out at the company, as they help Walmart and Sam’s Club move into the future of retail commerce, which positions favorable to immediate and future plans.
“As more employers face the future of work and how technology is changing jobs, our people are preparing us to win the next generation of retail,” the company said in a statement. “When Walmart and Sam’s Club were created new ways to serve clients and members, we create new career paths for our partners.”
Walmart says it is investing in 2.1 million associates worldwide to create new jobs, training and pathways that connect them to in-demand careers that change their paths in critical areas of growing business.
These trajectories show where Walmart is headed as one of the nation’s largest employers, and they are:
1. Store/club operations
75% of first-line managers in the US started out as part-time associates. Last year, Walmart has promoted more than 180,000 US associates to more responsible, higher-paying positions.
2. New jobs driven by technology
The network created new roles, more mentally stimulating and less physically demanding. As an example, he cited the case of José Vargas, who worked as a shipping loader (a manual and physically demanding job) for most of his 20 years at the company. In that position, he loaded trucks by hand with products for different stores.
But that changed when Walmart upgraded its regional distribution center to a high-tech facility that could serve customers better and faster. Now it’s José cellular operator, a newly created job in charge of managing automated systems which moves the product throughout the distribution center.
3. Walmart truck driver, earn up to $110,000
191 colleagues graduated in 7 training areas and became private fleet drivers, with the possibility of earning up to $110,000 in your first year on the job.
4. College degrees and certificates paid for by Walmart
Tech talent is needed at Walmart and gives store and supply chain associates the opportunity to transition from front-line retail roles to six figure tech jobs.
Walmart pays its associates to earn certificates, including cybersecurity degrees, through the Live Better U educational program. They also benefit from the Home Office Pathways Experience (HOPE) program, another way for frontline colleagues to transfer. to campus roles.
5. New opportunities for Health and Wellness associates
Walmart pays Vision Center associates to earn nationally recognized certifications and licenses that open doors to higher salaries and expanded career opportunities.
Heather Oliveri, senior director, H&W Learning, Bentonville, Arkansas, He started his career at Walmart as a cashier but went to the Vision Center, where he became a dual-licensed optician in Ohio.
Approximately 7,500 vision center associates will obtain licenses and certificates through the new development program.
