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Monday, July 20, 2009 | 10:02 a.m.
Sun Archives
- A look inside CityCenter’s application mill (7-17-2009)
- 145,000 have applied so far for 12,000 CityCenter jobs (7-16-2009)
- 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)
CityCenter’s Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas is accepting applications to fill more than 500 jobs, the hotel announced today.
The non-gaming, luxury hotel will be hiring for a variety of positions including in food and beverage, hotel operations, spa and fitness, finance, facilities and security. Offers of employment will be given in September, with employees beginning work in October to prepare for Mandarin Oriental’s December opening.
Candidates must visit Mandarin Oriental’s career Web site to apply. Qualified candidates will be invited for an application review with human resources, followed by a formal departmental interview and a final review with the Mandarin Oriental general manager.
MGM Mirage announced in December 2008 that it was seeking more than 12,000 workers to fill positions at CityCenter and other company-owned properties. The 500-plus Mandarin Oriental positions are part of those 12,000 openings.
In January, CityCenter recruiters said they expected 100,000 applications for the 12,000-plus jobs. The resort has since received more than 145,000 applications and conducted between 42,000 and 43,000 interviews.
CityCenter most recently held a job fair Thursday to hire hundreds for its food and beverage department.
Recent employment announcements from properties like CityCenter and Hard Rock have given hope to Nevada’s unemployed. Hard Rock held a job fair last month to hire 800 workers for its $750 million expansion.
Nevada’s unemployment rate rose to 12.3 percent in July, compared to 11.3 percent in June.
Good news for anyone hired at the new facilities, bad news for anyone left at the old facilities. The number of visitors is being divided by more and newer locations so layoffs at the existing hotels are certain to follow. Now United Airlines is increasing ticket costs and the rest are expected to follow. Thank you harry Reid, your economy fixes are sure working.
Whatever. Blah, blah, blah.
You're not getting a job at CityCenter unless you're hooked up with the HR Department or you've already worked with whatever big names they're bringing in there.
Yawn. Can we fast forward to 2017 when unemployment is back at 5%? Ugh.
I agree with you, lvdjlv. Personally, I think most of the jobs are filled already.
2017!! I hope I live that long!!! By then, living out of a shopping cart will be the normal way people will be living or most of Las Vegas will be "squatting" in and around all the empty houses!
I stayed at the Mandarin in Hong Kong. I'll bet you having a second language will help getting you a job here.
If Katie the end of the world as we know it is coming why not leave now.
This end of the world stuff is really getting to be a bit much.
Are you to young to recall 1980 to 83 when the nationwide unemployment rate was 10.5% and the interest rates on new houses was 12 plus % and a new car loan was 17%? The world didnt end then and it will not end now.
Yawn. Can we fast forward to 2017 when unemployment is up at 25%? Ugh.
If we have a 25% unemployment rate in 2017, that means the country elected a republican in 2012.
Will make me wish for the days of Ronald Reagans 10-12% rates !!!
something is starting to smell fishy. with the thousands of applications and all the interviews and all the people out of work...how in the WORLD could they still be looking for people?
sounds like a way to get a press release in the paper.
oh, and the world didn't come to an end back in 82/83 because america still had a manufacturing base.
we still built "stuff".
we no longer build "stuff". so all the manufacturing jobs are gone so those workers now just sit in the unemployment pool month after month.
the world didnt come to an end because since this country started its been a boom and bust cycle.
Whether we "make stuff" has nothing to do with basic economic cycles. They make "stuff" in Asia and the entire region completely melted down in 98.
If the casinos quit raising the rates of the rooms and leave them at the same prices they would bring more guests in and the gaming will start to flourish again. I have heard from many people in my travels that the room rates are what keeping a lot of tourists from coming to Vegas they would like to have rooms that cost less so they can have extra money to gamble or take in shows. I think the casinos can do a much better job of bringing in business if they just think of cheaper rooms.
Do you want the quickest explanation for the change in Las Vegas? BTW, this comes from a 30 year plus resident.
Old Vegas= Normal people got treated like High Rollers, even when they weren't.
New Vegas= Normal people try to spend like they're High Rollers, even when they aren't.
Wait 'til normal people actually have jobs again and can spend responsibly again, and then maybe Las Vegas can survive. Wait until the Casino Johnny's get their heads handed to them by the current conditions and the old timers get to refresh their memories to what made Vegas what it was and should be.
When City Center is finished another 40,000 people will have to travel in the strip area. How in the hell will they be able to move since no one can move faster than a snail up or down the strip now?
In the event of a major disaster (1) how will we be able to evacuate the strip area quickly or at all? (2) how will emergency vehicles be able to travel rapidly and safely up and down the strip? (3) what morons thought of the whole idea in the first place?
The strip already resemble a cheap version of Coney Island or the New Jersey Boardwalk of olden days...cheap, gaudy, flaky and sleazy...it seems to be getting worse with every year that passes.
City Center is a disaster waiting to happen. It is only a matter of short time before the entire strip economy collapses for good...we have morons running this town that have a 'small town mentality' and the inability to plan further ahead than last week. Can you imagine how a major league ball park planned for the adjoining strip area would impact the strip traffic alone. Moronic, self-serving and self-interested politicians only want to build their egos regardless of the impact on the common people.
hadenough has it right, vegas is dead! in a matter of just a few years it will be a dust bowl! it looks nothing short of a circus! the clowns run the city! there is no class left in this town! exit stage left after 20 plus years!ITS TOO BAD BUGSY'S DREAM DIED!
In my 30 plus years, here in Nevada, and 25 of those being in the workforce (from age 15), I've seen both sides of an equation and frankly, both of them suck. Years ago, I worked in the casinos and worked MANY HOURS FOR NO PAY. Now, I'm unemployed from the construction industry, where for the last little while, I worked TOO FEW HOURS FOR GREAT PAY.
So, now what do I do???
My family's getting a raw deal either way. Do I go back to the hotels, where I'll lose everything because of the great pay offered there? Or should I try to wait for the contruction to come back, and lose everything waiting for possibly nothing?
Either way, this place is NOT the place to be...
The mayor and everyone at city hall that had anything to do with allowing this city center project to be allowed should all be handcuffed and thrown in prison! It's already a huge tragedy what these nitwits have done to this great city up to this point, but now folks I can assure you that come December when this huge failure is supposed to open, this city is in for a real fast kill and not anymore slow kill like it's been going through! How is it even possible that not even one single brain that's involved with this thing could not think of the consequences of what's going to happen when you have another 12,000 employees trying to travel down the strip to get to work and they find out that it can't be done! Better yet I don't know what the total count is going to be of all the idiots that are buying those condos is going to be, but from what I heard, it's in the thousands and this is really hilarious, because I was told by one of the construction workers working on this project that the people that are going to live in this city center will never have to leave it for anything! HA HA HA, I love it! He claims that there will be everything a person could need or want right here within the confines of this city center thing and so everything is going to work out just fine! All you folks that bought one of those condos better make damn sure that once you get moved in there that you did everything on your check list, because if for some odd reason you find that you do have to go somewhere outside of that dumb city, you will be living one of your worst nightmares just trying to get out of there and back!! I use to love Vegas so much, it was actually like my second home to my wife and I. We use to go there so much and have a blast playing those wonderful old keno machines that a person could actually hit a big jackpot for only 1 quarter in!! We are completely done going to Vegas now because of what all of those greedy corporate moron idiots have done to Vegas! We will make sure that we only go back 1 more time for the grand opening of this colossal nightmare to happen so we can see the actual death of this once great city come about before our very eyes! I might be 68 years old, but I still know how to ride a motorcycle and that's exactly what I will be using on my last trip there, because a car will be useless!!
if you work in construction and you are waiting for it to come back, you'll be waiting a long time.
nobody's going to build anything in vegas for at least 2 or 3 years.
they can't make the hotels they already HAVE profitable. who's going to get funding to build more of something that isn't going to make them any money.
Bring back "The Mob" to run the town...those were the good ole' days...lots of fun...lots of jobs...no drunks or drug addicts or porn dealers bothering the tourists on the street. The place was run like a well oiled clock...but alas...corrupt government was not getting their share...so we have what we have today.
JOE Vegas we have what we have today yes, WE ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE COUNTRY!And things will get alot worse before they get better? If they ever do get better! VIVA LOST AND WASTED!!!