THE first 10 lucky hires - all Singaporeans - have been picked out of 20,000 applicants who tried for the 800 positions available at the Sentosa integrated resort during a recent job fair.
The screening, interviewing and hiring is still going on to fill the remaining 790 positions.
However, Resorts World at Sentosa introduced to the media on Friday afternoon the first three Singaporeans hired for the first of the Republic's two casinos.
Mr William Fong Keng Fung, 46, was retrenched last month from a manufacturing company. He said: 'I have three school-going children so I was really worried that I was not going to find a job.'
He tried going to job fairs organised by the National Trades Union Congress and the Community Development Councils - to no avail.
So he was surprised that he got a call to interview for a position as a casino technician at the IR the day after he went to the job fair on March 8.
He said: 'I am thankful to them for wanting to hire older workers like me.'
Two others in their 20s have been gunning for jobs as croupiers ever since they heard that casinos would be opening in Singapore. Mr Andrew Sim Kay Yong, 22, and Mr Ken Chee Yong Wei, 26, were both signed up as croupiers.
Mr Sim completed his National Service last September and he has been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the casino hiring to begin. Mr Chee, worked with the Singapore Armed Forces and in a engineering company before choosing a job in the casino.
The resort will ramp up its hiring from June to July, said Mr Goh. He added: 'We have committed from the very start to hiring as many Singaporeans as we can.'
- The Straits Times
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