The jobs fair will be held on May 30 and 31 as the company seeks to fill more than 2,000 vacancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Singapore.-\u00a0Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>\u00a0has announced that it will hold a recruitment fair on May 30-31 with the goal of\u00a0filling more than 2,000 vacancies<\/strong>. The fair will be its first walk-in recruitment drive since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The company, a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands,\u00a0seeks to hire people for positions in casino operations<\/strong>, food and beverage services, shopping centre management and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last December, the casino operator hosted its first virtual career fair<\/a> on its Virtual Meeting Platform to fill over 1,000 positions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chan Yit Foon<\/strong>, senior vice president for human resources at Marina Bay Sands\u00a0said: “This upcoming career fair has been in the making since the pandemic, and is especially timely as we welcome visitors back.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Las Vegas Sands has started a US$1bn renovation project<\/a> at Marina Bay Sands. The project is separate from Las Vegas Sands\u2019 commitment to the Singapore government in 2019 to invest S$4.5bn (US$3.3bn) in the expansion of the Marina Bay Sands hotel<\/strong>. The pledge coincides with the group\u2019s extension of Singapore casino rights to 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of visitors to Singapore from January to April inclusive rose 472.2 per cent year-on-year to 540,430.<\/strong> That exceeds the number of visits recorded in all of 2021 (330,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to official data, 95,490 visitors came from India<\/strong>, up 533.1 per cent year-on-year. In second place was Indonesia, with 84,658 arrivals, and in third place was Malaysia, with 45,560 visitors, up 750.4 per cent when compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singapore started easing Covid-19 measures at the beginning of the year. In April, authorities announced the reopening of borders to all fully vaccinated travellers<\/a>. The announcement brought a strong growth in the volume of air passengers<\/a> arriving in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The jobs fair will be held on May 30 and 31 as the company seeks to fill more than 2,000 vacancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Marina Bay Sands, a Las Vegas Sands subsidiary, is conducting a major recruitment drive in Singapore to fill over 2,000 vacancies across casino operations and other verticals. 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