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Published Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 | 11:20 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 | 2:32 p.m.
Sun coverage
- CityCenter's Aria Resort to hire 350 workers (8-2-2009)
- CityCenter hotel begins search for 500 workers (7-20-2009)
- A look inside CityCenter’s application mill (7-17-2009)
- 145,000 have applied so far for 12,000 CityCenter jobs (7-16-2009)
- CityCenter to hire for food and beverage jobs (7-10-2009)
- 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)
Monday will be a brighter day for some of Nevada’s unemployed.
CityCenter will begin extending employment offers to roughly 12,000 employees Monday in preparation for a December opening. The first new employees are expected to gather at CityCenter’s employment center to receive and celebrate their official offers.
The day will mark the first time offers have been made to non-MGM Mirage employees in the CityCenter hiring process. Most internal MGM Mirage job offers already have been discussed with current employees to accommodate the new property, a CityCenter spokesperson said Friday.
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 company has held several job fairs since the announcement to fill the positions.
While the bulk of the resort's hiring efforts will be finished on Monday, positions are still being filled at Mandarin Oriental. The non-gaming hotel held two job fairs this week along with another Saturday to fill more than 500 positions.
In addition to CityCenter’s initial 12,000 positions, hospitality management firm The Light Group announced earlier this month that it would be hiring 350 workers for its three food and beverage outlets at the Aria Resort and Casino.
Vdara Hotel will kick off CityCenter’s opening on Dec. 1, with the Crystals retail and entertainment district on Dec. 3, Mandarin Oriental on Dec. 4 and Aria Dec. 16. The Harmon will open in late 2010.
Earlier today the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announced unemployment reached a record high of 13.4 percent in August in Las Vegas with an estimated 135,100 workers out of a job.
this is good, but there is no way...NO WAY the economy is going to support these jobs.
Great news for job hunters, just remember, those of you that are applying for casino positions, you are well aware that you are applying for positions where smoking is allowed so don't complain or try and sue later.
"CityCenter to make nearly 12,000 job offers Monday" - for waiters and housekeepers etc at about $10.00 an hour
Next headline will read - "CityCenter to make nearly 30,000 job cuts" - to pipe fitters and iron workers, etc makeing about $50.00 an hour
You do the math!
I have never seen such great hotel deals in Las Vegas. I can't wait until City Center opens and the prices go even lower. Good for the consumer, not so good for Las Vegas.
Well, the other shoe will drop when the fat gets trimmed after a few months, AND, other properties in town lose business to CC. But, no denying that the net is a plus here. I'll take it. The constuction jobs were only temporary anyway (and nobody except for a handful of GF's were ever making $50/hr, TbVegas).
If I were a drinker, I'd propose a toast to this. "Congrats to those of you going back to work. Do your jobs well; separate as many mainland Chinese from their money as you possibly can!"
Glad I got an education and became an RN. I'll never face job cuts.
A nurse with the name "Doc?"
Anyway, nursing postions ARE being cut. Hard times are affecting all budgets. If enough people can't find work, you'll be cut too. Not that I wish hard times on you at all. But we need to right this ship or we'll all go down with it.
Work in the medical is more safe than others as Americans is aging and aren't getting an healthier. Even if illegals were to leave (or get tossed) the jobs they occupied with no health benefits will be taken over by Americans. Guess what? Those Americans with the those jobs with no health benefits will show up at the hospital the same way the illegals did before them. No reason to believe that janitorial, kitchen and housemaid jobs will all of a sudden spruot health benefits just because Americans now hold them. Speciaous argument that we solve the health care problem by simply evicting illegals when the jobs with health benefits remain.
That's not news to me Vegas2009, because at the hospital I work in, i'll never have to worry about my job being cut. Understaffing and lack of good people hits us way too hard. You can believe what you want, but anywhere I live I have a job.
CAN I HAVE THE $1.25 HR JOB OF CLEANING TICKETS ON THE FLOOR
GRAVEYARD SHIFT?
JIMMI D, MICHICAN
Doc
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. You may not lose your job, but you may lose hours and vacation time and raises. Or your job totally. Go talk to nurses in other parts of the country where they actually have hospitals filled with people and not empty like the ones in the southwestern part of the valley.
jtrudeau
Those that will be extended job offers from City Csenter on Monday already went thru the interview process months ago.This is the final step in the whole process.
Yes, Doc. It's precisely when you start thinking it can't happen to you, that it WILL happen to you. It's not at all inconceivable to me that the Valley's population will recede to population levels of the mid-nineties. In which case, several hundred thousand will pick up and leave. The rest of us left here will be reeling for years before we regain our equilibrium. No job will be safe.
Well, when HUD built public housing or other low income units, for every unit of newly constructed housing resulted in the loss of two units available to low income persons so they had even fewer choices. There is a likelihood that the 12,000 jobs may result in the removal of substantial number of jobs elsewhere as hotels lower rates on their way to failure. I hope it isn't that bad - but it will be bad! Good luck in your new jobs.
I think that you all are in or near panic mode with jobs. You don't have faith in the Obama administration. Las Vegas will be fine soon and everyone will be left wondering why they were so worried.
No worries here though, my wife and I are safe in our jobs... guaranteed.
OK Doc, we get it, you're untouchable!! I wouldn't put all my eggs in the Obama basket though. As taxes go up, and they will have to, people's discretionary income goes down. Las Vegas thrives on discretionary income. When people have less, Las Vegas will get less. Simple math!! But what do I know, I'm not guaranteed to keep my job.
Exactly!! Now go make me a sammich.
DOC WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE YOUR SELF FEEL BETTER BUT TOU ARE RATHER SAD TO ME GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR LIFE
Remember that the job offers are only beginning on Monday, obviously they won't get through all of them. So don't be upset and irate if you aren't called.
12000 hired Monday.
6500 lay off in January 2010.
No worries here though, my wife and I are safe in our jobs... guaranteed.
You must be sleeping with the boss then!!! A threesome maybe???
No worries here though, my wife and I are safe in our jobs... guaranteed.
Or maybe just your wife is......
Im sure these are wonderful jobs - housekeepers, cooks, and the ilk of indentured servitude to the casinos. 12.00 hour, most part time, some on call -- this is really going to fix Vegas? NOT
Our city has got to start a comback somewhere. Good luck to City Center.
Doc you are so full of yourself that I don't think you could ever grasp the real world.
You sound like you've just got out of High School, even if you haven't there is time for you to grow up, someday.
Look at the Tower names and guess who they will be hiring.
Mandarin Oriental
Veer Towers'
Vdara Condo & Hotel
Aria Resort
To qualify one has to wonder how many people will need to fluent in spanish and other forms of foreign languages.
"You don't have faith in the Obama administration"
Give it time-you won't either.
They will over hire like the M and others did and then lay off.
The place is haunted by the ghosts of dead construction workers.
Lets go figure...All those new jobs will most likely be part time and offer NO MEDICAL BENEFITS....LIKE THE M CASINO....MARNELL CORPORATION HAS A RECORD OF LAYING OFF AND REHIRING THE SAME EMPLOYEES BACK AS PART TIME EMPLOYEES...THEN THEY CUT THEIR EMPLOYEES HEALTH CARE INSURANCE!!! They are the same Corporation that has conducted the same heartless action to their employees of their LAUGHLIN PROPERTIES, THE EDGEWATER AND THE COLORADO BELLE.