73 interview invitations were sent out to 3 people, and the operational anxiety soared under the account ban!

A large number of Amazon sellers’ brands have been blocked, which has once again made the topic of operations recruitment popular at the beginning of the year. Many people believe that as these seller teams are disbanded or laid off, many operations will flow into the market, making it much easier for other sellers to recruit.

But now according to feedback from some sellers, this is not entirely true.

73 interview invitations for operations positions were sent out, but only 3 people came

Amazon is vigorously cracking down on fake reviews, which will affect not only sellers, but also suppliers and operations in the supply chain. For example, since Amazon banned fake reviews, such news has spread like wildfire online:

“——The company had a massive layoff, from over 900 employees to over 300. The entire team was fired, and four people submitted their resignation forms on the same day.

——A major seller’s account in Shenzhen Tianan Cloud Valley was blocked, resulting in the direct layoff of three-quarters of the employees.

——A big seller has laid off more than 700 employees, and now there are only more than 200 left.

——A Shenzhen-based smart home brand seller laid off more than 200 people including sales, operations, and administration.

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Seeing so much operation outflow, many sellers who are short of operations can’t wait to shout: Come to the bowl quickly!

However, surprisingly, under such circumstances, many sellers still complain that it is difficult to recruit people, and it is even more difficult to recruit suitable people.

A seller recently said helplessly that the company needed to recruit people for operations positions, but he sent out 73 interview invitations, but only 3 people came. Another seller who faced the same problem directly called out that he wanted to recruit people on Weibo.

The reason why the recruitment of seller operation positions is in a dilemma may be found in the recent interviews of the following two sellers.

After interviewing several job seekers from large companies and platforms, an operator said: "The overall feeling is that if they don't have a special spirit of research, they will basically only know some basic operations, or just be proficient in their own work." "They don't have a big advantage, but the asking price is not low."

The "war for talent" at the beginning of this year has already given operations a lot of premium, and now with the halo of big sales, I think the expected salary offered by these job seekers is not low.

In fact, this problem does not only exist in the operators who sell a lot. A seller who interviews several operators every day sighed: " I always feel that there are too many people who are ambitious but incompetent. They always ask for sky-high prices and their operations are just fake orders. "

On the one hand, job seekers believe that the salary offered by the seller does not meet their requirements, so they do not accept the interview invitation. On the other hand, sellers believe that the job seekers' abilities do not match the salary they offer ... This is where the recruitment dilemma arises.

Of course, another reason is also inseparable from this: among these people, those with strong abilities have another choice, which is to "go it alone."

As we all know, most of the sellers are in Shenzhen, and the sellers in Shenzhen are the ones most affected by the account blocking wave. Therefore, sellers outside Shenzhen have not felt a large amount of operations flowing into the job market.

An Amazon operator: I feel very anxious now

From the influx of new sellers at the beginning of the year to the current situation where everyone is in danger, everything has changed rapidly in just a few months, making many people realize the unpredictable nature of the cross-border e-commerce business.

In the panic environment, some practitioners fell into anxiety and uneasiness.

Previously, the editor saw a post on a certain website: I am an Amazon operator and I am very anxious now ...

"I never thought that the big sales that supported our business could be easily manipulated by Amazon," the Amazon operator, who has been in the industry for two years, wrote in the post.

Between the lines, one can clearly see the shock he felt when the top-selling product that he once believed in and supported the industry collapsed due to store closures.

In the post, the operator mentioned the original intention of doing operations and said: "This is a lucrative job. You can make more money by doing Amazon operations. Maybe if you are lucky, you can start your own business."

However, Amazon sellers are now in dire straits. The account suspension storm has not yet subsided. Amid Amazon’s rounds of account suspensions, various industry groups, forums, and social media are full of such news: “Why are so many operators looking for jobs recently?” “Is there another wave of accounts being suspended? Why are so many people I know quitting their jobs recently and changing jobs?”…

The future of Amazon's operations is full of uncertainty.

In addition, with the large-scale resignation of operations personnel, the bargaining power in the recruitment market this year has gradually shifted from job seekers to companies.

At the beginning of this year, as everyone was scrambling for operations, the salary of operations positions was pushed up, and even a base salary of 15K was offered for half a year of experience . It can be said that the salary package is controlled by job seekers. But now, with a large number of operations flowing into the market, the salary bargaining power of operations positions has not only gradually slipped away from job seekers, but the base salary has also been cut.

Now the original model is no longer suitable for the current market, there are many uncertainties in the future, and coupled with the decline in value, Amazon operators are becoming increasingly anxious.

One-third of operations staff choose to change careers after leaving their jobs

Recently, a netizen said that after the remaining 12 stores closed down, his colleague who had been running the business for more than two years left. "The original products in the store were put back on the shelves and orders were still being placed, but he no longer had the confidence and passion to start over."

In the context of Amazon's iron-blooded ban , some people can't help but ask: Where did these resigned operations go ? What is their future?

According to survey data, about one-third choose to start their own business, one-third choose to continue their original careers in similar companies, and one-third choose to change careers.

"There are more than a dozen new faces in the company group in the past few days." An Amazon operator said that his company took advantage of the large-scale layoffs of other blocked sellers and absorbed a lot of excellent operations.

In addition to continuing to operate in the cross-border e-commerce industry, the editor has noticed that, as shown in the above survey, some of the Amazon operators who left have changed careers.

Previously, an operator who worked for a top seller in Shenzhen said: "After the company's brand was closed, I and some of my colleagues were laid off. I feel that cross-border e-commerce is very dangerous now. I want to change my career and work in another industry."

There are many people who share the same idea as this operator.

A few days ago, a netizen said: "Speaking of quitting Amazon and changing careers, I started to learn English again a few months ago, thinking of taking a teacher's qualification exam, or at least becoming a teacher in a training school . "

From being a hot commodity that was sought after and had its value soaring at the beginning of the year to being laid off and choosing to change careers, it only took a few short months. It is hard not to sigh and lament.

In fact, in addition to changing careers after being laid off, there are also many people who voluntarily resign and join other banks in this unstable environment.

One netizen who has four years of Amazon operation experience said that he has returned home to work in a state-owned enterprise for the sake of stability. Another netizen who just resigned also said that he plans to work as a new media live broadcast operator or pitcher.

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