It will recruit 300 managers and supervisors to run Universal
Studios Singapore for a start. By Lim Wei Chean
SENTOSA integrated resort has started its recruitment drive,
even as other firms are laying off workers.
It will hire in stages, starting with taking in 300 mangers and
supervisors to run the 20-ha Universal Studios Singapore that will
open in first quarter of 2010 in Resorts World at Sentosa
(RWS).
The IR will need 10,000 to run its park when it is in full
swing.
RWS head of human resources and training Seah Khoo Ee Boon on
Monday said some of the 200 managers needed to oversee the park
would be recruited from overseas since there are not enough such
experienced people here.
But the company will also recruit locals with track record in
the attractions and hospitality industry.
Ms Seah-Khoo said the group is also looking for 100 supervisors
who will be sent to Universal Studios Orlando in US for four-month
training. A yet-to-be-decided number of the 200 managers will also
be sent overseas for training or attachments.
The overseas training will cost the company up to $5 million, a
portion of which will be subsidised by the Singapore Tourism Board,
said Ms Seah-Khoo.
Of the 10,000 employees to be hired, 3,000 will be needed for
the theme park operations, 3,000 for casino operations, 3,000 for
the hotel, retail and food and beverage segment and the remaining
1,000 for corporate operations like IT backroom work.
The recruitment drive will step up in the middle of next year to
get 8,000 on the resort's payroll by end of next year and 10,000 in
place by March 2010.
Ms Seah-Khoo said she is also in talks with banks, including
DBS, to hire some of their workers who will be retrenched by end of
this month.
She stressed that the company is committed to hiring as many
locals as possible, as well as paying special attention to
back-to-work mothers, mature workers, the disabled and ex-convicts
on the Yellow Ribbon scheme.
In yet another move, the IR is also working with Singapore
Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic and Nanyang
Polytechnic to send 100 students up to Universal Studios Orlando
for four-month internships.
