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Bernard Ibarra, left, executive chef of the Aria resort in CityCenter, interviews chef John Tormey during a food and beverage job fair at the CityCenter Career Center on Thursday. Tormey had just been laid off this morning from his job at The Terrace, a wedding and events business in Henderson, he said.
Published Thursday, July 16, 2009 | 5:50 p.m.
Updated Thursday, July 16, 2009 | 7:45 p.m.
Sun Coverage
- Jobless claims indicate economy remains weak (7-9-2009)
- Career fair draws thousands for CityCenter, other jobs (5-19-2009)
- CityCenter extending hope on a huge scale (1-13-2009)
- Priority No. 1: Finding a job (1-8-2009)
The work of staffing CityCenter continued Thursday when MGM Mirage hosted a job fair for food and beverage workers.
So far, more than 145,000 people have applied for CityCenter's 12,000 jobs. MGM Mirage processes all of these applications at a 29,000-square-foot career center.
The first applicants pass through the electronic application, which asks yes/no and numerical questions like, "How many years experience do you have as a chef in a high volume restaurant?" Meet the computers' standards and applicants are off to human resources, said Michael Peltyn, CityCenter's vice president of human resources.
Human resources is interviewing about 500 people every day. So far, between 42,000 and 43,000 people have been through departmental interviews.
Those who make it past the second interview are given a drug test. Even the lab is on site at the career center.
Sometime in September, CityCenter will start making job offers.
Not everyone who applies for CityCenter and is offered a job will end up at CityCenter. Many of the CityCenter jobs will go to people already working for MGM Mirage resorts. Those transfers will open up jobs at, say, the Mirage or Bellagio -- jobs that CityCenter applicants will help fill.
The next CityCenter job fair will be seeking guest room attendants and will occur on Friday, July 24 from 3 to 6 p.m. The career center is located at 3549 Industrial Road.
Many of the CityCenter jobs will go to people already working for MGM Mirage resorts. Those transfers will open up jobs at, say, the Mirage or Bellagio -- jobs that CityCenter applicants will help fill.
Pay close attention to those words.
Stevem is 100% correct.
PLUS, the only way to get a casino job is to know somebody in the department you're applying for.
I know someone with a degree in Construction Management & six years of experience in Vegas construction and applied online at CityCenter's website for a job as a Construction Cost Controller which is something you do with a CM degree.
CityCenter said he wasn't qualified to even come down and interview.
Just for fun, this same person applied for a "Front Doorman" position. Same resume, address, everything.
CityCenter has him come down for a five minute "token interview". Then a week later they e-mail him and tell him he isn't qualified to open a door.
A few months later, the same job description for Construction Cost Controller appears on CityCenter's website. He applies again. Gets an e-mail saying he's not qualified.
So, CityCenter will NOT interview you if you have a degree and experience in a field but they'll call you down for a token interview to see if you can open a door and be polite to people even if you have no experience as a front doorperson.
It ain't what you know, it's who you know. If you don't have a connection at the casino, forget it. But that happens all over the world and isn't unique to just Vegas.
These are all token interviews so MGM covers their butts and doesn't get sued.
I dare the Sun or Journal to do a story on that. No way, they know where their bread is buttered.
SUCKERS!
You guys are all right, we nailed this one on the head. It's gonna suck when we have all this supply while demand (rooms, restaurants, etc) continues to decrease. A perfect storm.
there is NO way that there is enough tourism volume and spending right now to justify or support all these new restaurants and hotel rooms.
it will be just like m resort, but on a larger scale.
they'll get an early surge and they'll put out endless press releases about how good they are doing...and of course the r-j and the sun will print them...and about 5 months later they'll be dumping people.
low paying tourism jobs are our heroin and we have to get the needle out of our arm.
I imagine when you pull the needle out, you have some sort of withdrawal?
I don't know what you all do for a living, but I think you're screwed...
Most applicants will not get a job (based on the numbers). Some will get a job at an existing resort (Mirage, etc.). To those people looking for work, it makes no difference where they work, if they're hired. A paycheck is better than no paycheck. Yes, there will be layoffs after a few months. It happens everytime a new store or restaurant opens. They start out extremely busy, then taper off to reality. I say, if you're out of work, give it a shot. Even if it only lasts a few months, that's a few months pay you wouldn't otherwise have.
Although there is a multitude of job fairs and so called hiring interviews, I think this is just another rip off of the unemployed. How many people know that you can only apply for one position at, say, MGM. Most of us are qualified to do many different jobs, but once you apply for one, they will not accept your request to apply for another one until the previous one has been filled, and of course they don't let you know that. I think you should be allowed to apply for however many you are qualified for. It is very frustrating and not in the least helpful to the thousands that are willing to work at whatever is available in the economy. Until we can all get back to working the economy will continue to decline. Simply put-no paychecks-no spending. What is so hard to understand about that??
Of course everyone knows MGM Mirage was committed to completing this project. That does not mean that it was needed or there will be adequate demand to make it profitable. The company had better have money to burn. Major restructuring and selling of assets is in their future without a doubt.