Its About Time

So, I've been unemployed for a little over 2 months right now. I was devastated when I found out that I had lost the dream job that I worked so hard for while I was at the Rio. After being laid off, I have been having the hardest time finding a job that's hiring. When I got laid off, I had applied for The M Resort that's scheduled to open on March 2009. I went online to check out the positions that were opened and unfortunately there were no VIP Representative or Casino Host position open. I had to suck it up and apply as a Front Desk Agent. I told myself if I was able to work my up at The Rio, it shouldn't be a problem for The M Resort.

I had a screening interview back in November, where I was lucky enough to have a 2nd interview scheduled in December. This second interview was going to be a group interview so I was a little nervous since I would have to try and sell myself better than the others in the group interview. There were 18 people in the group interview I was in. After all the introductions of ourselves, mind twister game, and a question and answer session....3 of the 18 people were called to leave the room (I being one of them). As we left the interview room, the 3 of us were told that we were moving onto the 3rd interview in a few minutes. I had a 3rd interview with 2 of the assistant managers from Hotel Operations. The interview was very laid back for me as the two assistant managers made me feel comfortable. They came from Caesar's Palace which is the same casino family as The Rio. We knew a few mutual people that worked at both places, but that didn't stop them from grilling me with questions why I wanted this job and why I qualified for it. After the interview with them, I was told that I had a 4th interview on Jan 7th. I was told that I MAY be offered a job after this 4th interview so I had to bring in my documents to show that I'm able to work in the US.

Today, I walked into the waiting room for my 4th interview. I thought it was going to be a panel interview that I would have to sit through. As I saw more people walking in, saying that they had a 4:00pm interview I got confused on what was going on. They took all of us candidates into another room where we were told that we were going to meet with the VP of Human Resources. All of us walked into a different room and the VIP of Human Resources went around the room asking each of us a different question. She informed us that she was the last person to give us a "Yay
or "Nay" on being hired. She also informed us that out of the 45,000 applicants in their database, only 2,000 here going to be hired. That just made me pee in my pants even more, knowing that that number was over 50% of the people being eliminated. After we finished with her, we moved back into the room and were escorted to the other trailer, where we found out that we all got hired!!!! I was so relieved!! I was praying that I would get this job because I was sick of looking for a job and not working. I'm excited to start at this new Resort & Casino. It will be an awesome experience to open a new Resort/Casino. I know it will be chanllenging, but I'm ready for it all! I look forward to this new start for the year 2009.