Hundreds Line Up For New Seminole Casino Jobs
COCONUT CREEK (CBSMiami) - Job seekers lined up before dawn hoping it would be their lucky day to land a job at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.
Due to a recent $150 million expansion, which has more than doubled its size and added new restaurants and gaming areas, the casino needs to fill 800 new positions.
"We have a wide variety of jobs, gaming positions, a lot of food and beverage, dealers, waiters, bartenders, all of those and some supervisory positions too," said Seminole Casino Coconut Creek's David Carrol.
Specific positions offered include restaurant and lounge staff including chefs, cooks, servers, bartenders, cocktail servers, and restaurant managers. Gaming positions offered include dealers, hosts, player's club representatives, cashiers, customer service attendants and slot machine technicians. Other jobs include operations, security, maintenance and housekeeping.
Insurance benefits will be offered with every position.
"There are actually going to be some offers going out today and then more during the course of the week as we finish up the job fair later this week," said Carrol.
It was the largest hiring of new employees by the Seminole Tribe and Seminole Gaming since the grand opening of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in May, 2004, and comes as an economic shot in the arm for Broward County, where the official unemployment rate is presently 9.5 percent.
"Bob" from Sunrise, who used to work in the healthcare field, said he'd take anything the casino offered.
"I've been unemployed for a year and half," Bob told CBS4's Al Sunshine. "This is extremely important, I have to pay the bills."
The jobs are expected to be filled by the first of the year for their projected Feb.2012 opening.
The job fair concluded at 6 p.m. in the West Lot Pavilion at the casino, located at 5550 NW 40th Street, in Coconut Creek.
For more information about the Casino Job Fair and available jobs, visit their Web site at gotoworkhappy.com
