The Employment Line

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Both of us have put in our applications (most have to be sent in online here in Las vegas) in at least 30 Hotels/Casinos/Restaurants each. And we both have some callbacks scheduled for next week, including M Resort (both of us), MGM Grand (me), Red Rock/Station Casinos (Jose Luis) and a couple of others.

Those of you that know us, know that for our age (AARP carrying 50 plus year olds) we are in pretty good shape, look presentable, dress accordingly, speak intelligently, have travelled extensively, have team player personalities and have over 30 years of Hospitality background.
But we are competing with 60-70 other people for one job, and these competitors are in their 20's-50's. Would a company prefer to hire a less knowledgeable 30 year old, that is still wet behind the ears and know that they might last with the company 20 years, or hire us and know that we will want to start collecting social security in less than 10 years.

It is not up to us to decide but I can assure you that it is interesting looking at it from our perspective, having owned our own businesses since 1990, Travel Agency, Restaurants, Inn.
Will it be more difficult for us to take direction from a manager who is younger and less wise than us, when we have been so used to making all the decisions, and taking all the consequences of such, ourselves.
Don't know...will see.
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