With your experience in the gaming industry, you probably know the proverbial someone who knows someone. If you can ask around without jeopardizing your current job, you'll find that the casino business is a finite universe and odds are that one of your own contacts can give you a personal recommendation to someone in a position to help you along in your quest to hit the big time in Las Vegas — if not hire you directly. Juice is still the secret to a successful career around here, and there's such a strong demand for experienced casino personnel these days that if just about anyone in management can personally vouch for you, you're a favorite to get hired in some capacity in this city.
Failing that, there's one tip we can pass along, without which you're a big underdog in terms of surviving the weeding-out process. You must have a local address and phone number. It's as simple as that. Countless job seekers submit applications to Las Vegas casino companies from around the country and the world and it's our understanding that these apps are routinely tossed into the circular file. Las Vegas human-resources departments are looking for already-established Las Vegas residents to staff their casinos; there are too many uncertainties in hiring people who have yet to make the actual move to southern Nevada.
If you don't live here yet, you can circumvent the requirement by setting up a local mail drop and voicemail number. There are various ways to do this, but make sure that the forwarding service to your home address and phone number is fast and reliable. You'll have to play a bit of a tricky game if you start sending in resumes, then get positive responses and interview appointments. But if you don't live in Las Vegas when you apply for jobs here, that's the only way to do it.
