Avnet offers Supply-Chain and Design-Chain Services and logistics management, high-growth vertical and data center solutions, electromechanical parts, and embedded computing technologies. Other services include product assembly, device programming, computer system configuration and integration, and technical seminars. Avnet's services are market-driven and provide cost-efficient services and solutions. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft are just a few of the big names that have turned to Avnet's services.
Avnet's history began, when Charles Avnet started selling surplus radio parts on the East Coast docks. By the mid-1920's Avnet was selling parts to dealers and manufacturers. Through the years, the company and its services continued to expand. Avnet was incorporated in 1955 and went public as Avnet Electronics Corporation in 1959.
Today, Avnet has 10,000 corporate employees and career offerings in sales, customer support, operations, information technology, finance, legal, electronic design, engineering, and marketing. The company also sponsors internships through its College Relations programs, which provide internships, job placement services, student organization sponsorship, support of campus diversity groups, and curriculum development.
Employees with Avnet are offered a choice of three medical plan options, choice of a managed care dental plan or an indemnity dental plan, vision coverage, and two flexible spending accounts. Avnet employees are also eligible for life insurance benefits that include basic life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, travel accident insurance, employee supplemental life insurance, and family supplemental life insurance. A pension plan, 401(k) savings plans, stock purchase plan, short and long-term disability insurance, vacation time, holidays, and sick leave are further benefits offered by the company. Educational assistance, computer loans, adoption assistance, flu shots, health screenings, and scholarships for children and spouses of Avnet employees are also available.
Avnet has 145 job listings on www.hound.com , including account manager, manager of web analytics, computer operator, and senior technical consultant. The company has two job listings posted on www.monster.com for product manager and database administrator.
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