The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center is hiring 50 full-time positions and 300 seasonal positions for its “A Country Christmas.” The permanent positions include tour boat operators and security officers; seasonal jobs, which run from October to January, include retail and food service. Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, formerly known as Opryland Hotel, is a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
The new Embassy Suites Columbus hotel at the Port Columbus International Airport is hiring 120 people in anticipation of its grand opening this Fall. The hotel is hosting a job fair this week, which continues through Saturday. Positions are available in housekeeping, front desk, maintenance, and in food service, including bartenders and sous chefs. The hotel is [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Newberg, Oregon Allison Inn & Spa opens in September, and so far 1,000 people have applied for the 85-room resort’s 160 service positions. A job fair was held this week in Newberg. Applicants waited in a three-hour queue to interview for front desk, restaurant, bar, spa and maintenance & engineering positions. Oregon’s unemployment rate of 12.4% [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Hilton Hotels Corporation will open three new hotels in downtown Orlando, Florida, creating 1,400 jobs. The Hilton Orlando will open in September; while the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek and the Waldorf Astoria Orlando will open in October. The hourly and management positions include housekeeping and food service. Hilton Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 5, 2009
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is hiring 800 workers. The resort has already added 400 people in an expansion. The new jobs include dealers and hotel staff. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino off the Las Vegas Strip was launched in 1995. The $100 million expansion has nearly doubled the hotel’s capacity. Share [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
The M Resort hotel and casino will cut about 100 jobs. The layoffs will include employees from all departments, including the casino and restaurant staff. The resort opened just this past March. M Resort is a hotel and locals casino in Henderson, Nevada. The complex includes a 92,000-square-foot casino and a 400 room hotel. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
Pebble Beach Resorts is laying off 47 employees, including 14 in management. The company eliminated 29 jobs in November, including 24 managers. Usually, the firm’s busy season begins in May. But cancellations have exceeded new bookings in four of the past six months. The company runs several luxury resorts and four golf courses. It employs more than 1,500 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 17, 2009
Arkansas’s March unemployment rate rose to 6.5%, a 0.1% hike from February. The Arkansas Workforce Services Department reports that the “Natural State” lost 17,100 jobs in March, bringing the jobless total to 88,900. Jobs were added in six major industry sectors, such as leisure and hospitality. But Arkansas manufacturing has lost 16,800 jobs since March 2008, and trade, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 24, 2009
More than 1,000 people waited in line today for a job fair at Chicago’s newest Loop hotel, The Wit Hotel. The Wit Hotel, which will open in two months, has 300 positions to fill. It is part of Doubletree, an international chain of full-service hotels and resorts trademarked by the Hilton Hotels Corporation. There are currently 160 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
A two-day job fair held by Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to fill 500 part-time jobs for the baseball season attracted nearly 7,000 applicants. With the team in Glendale, Arizona, for spring training, the stadium became a human resources arena Saturday and Sunday during the 2009 Dodgertown Job Fair. Dodgers officials said they had expected as many as [...]
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Friday, August 21, 2009
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