A casino job fair for veterans will be held later this month in Atlantic City, local media reports. Two more casinos will join the city’s casino market in a few months and they are seeking staff ahead of their planned opening.
The job fair will take place at 9 am – 3 pm on April 19 at the offices of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
Veterans are invited to pre-register for the event and to attend if they are looking for a job and want to join the state’s casino industry. Multiple casino jobs opportunities will be made available to former military.
Jim Plousis, head of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, told local media that the veterans casino career fair will be called ‘Bet On A Vet’ and that the city’s all seven operational casinos will participate as well as the two new gambling venues that are slated to open doors later this year.
Some of the job opportunities available will require the approved applicants to obtain a license from the regulator, but Mr. Plousis said that the process is not a lengthy one. The casino regulator pointed out that the necessary registrations take just a couple of weeks and that people will then be able to begin work.
Veterans are encouraged to bring their resumes at the fair and to be dressed properly for interviews on the spot. There will also be veterans services available for people who might need them.
New Job Opportunities
The upcoming opening of two new casinos on Atlantic City’s Boardwalk will create thousands of new job opportunities in the city, including ones for former military personnel.
Florida-based casino and café chain owner Hard Rock International last spring bought the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino from New York investor Carl Icahn. The company revealed a $500-million renovation plan aimed to transform the India-themed resort, once dubbed as the eighth wonder of the world, into a typical Hard Rock property with memorabilia and different features celebrating the rock’n’roll lifestyle. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City is slated to open doors this summer.
It also became known late last year that Florida businessman Glenn Straub has sold the shuttered Revel casino resort to a Colorado-based investment group for $200 million. AC Ocean Walk LLC, the property’s new owner, said that it would spend an additional $175 million to renovate and ready the property for a May 2018 launch.
Revel closed doors in 2014 after two years of operation. The property was bought by Mr. Straub a year later. The businessman promised to reopen it but missed several self-imposed deadlines. He even selected a new name for the Boardwalk resort. The former Revel was to be relaunched as TEN with Mr. Straub at the helm. The property will now hopefully reopen as Ocean Resort Casino later this spring with its new owner.
