Craig: Welcome to our Five on 5 pleased to welcome in Brandon Bethea a marketing manager for Rain Rock Casino in Yreka; good to see you man, thanks for being here. Brandon: Good to see you. Thanks for having me. Craig: Congratulations on the casino.
Brandon: Yeah Craig: I understand we don’t have a date set yet? Brandon: Not as of yet, yeah it’s coming up quick. We’re looking at the late February time frame for opening the doors though so it’s definitely fast approaching. Craig: It’s 2018, it is fast approaching, exactly. So what’s exciting you most about that opening? Brandon: Well obviously the community involvement that’s coming along there; just seeing the project build itself you know if you’re traveling south on I-5 right now and you look out there eastbound you’d definitely see the building and everything coming together and all the construction crews that are down there, the crew that we have putting together the property is a bunch of great guys so just seeing the whole project come together and all the finishing touches kind of starting to wrap up check this website. Craig: Yeah seeing those walls go up. Brandon: Yeah, absolutely. Craig: That’s a landmark among many of course but very nice, ok. In the meantime you guys are doing some hiring right now, we’re gonna kind of focus on that. When and where are you guys having this hiring fair? Brandon: Yeah so we have a huge job fair coming up this weekend. It’s gonna be Friday January 5th and Saturday January 6th; the Friday’s the evening so we’re looking at 3 to 6 and then Saturday join us in the morning 9 am to noon. And this job fair is gonna be at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds and it’s an excellent opportunity if you’re looking to start a new career in the gaming industry to come on out or you can just come down check us out and say hi to all the friendly staff and going on there, so. Craig: Yeah, and you talked about possibly beginning a career in the gaming industry. Brandon: Yeah Craig: Do people have to have a background in that industry? Brandon: Absolutely, so we’re looking for everybody you know obviously a casino is a large organization, we’re looking to fill over 200 positions; we’re looking for entry level people, we’re looking for people with experience, we’re looking for smiling faces that just kind of want to check out what a casino business is all about. So positions in everything across the board in the casino world, so marketing, security, HR facility, slots, tables, food & beverage; everything under the sun we’re looking for those kind of positions right now. Craig: Ok we’re going to take a quick commercial break; we’ll have much more with Brandon in a moment, stay with us. Craig: Welcome back to our Five on 5 again we’re here with Brandon Bethea from Rain Rock Casino, so we’re talking about this big job fair you guys have going on this Friday and Saturday? Brandon: That’s right, Friday and Saturday, yep. Craig: Ok so what kind of job requirements are we looking for, for a lot of different positions as you said? Brandon: So if you really want to get details out of it you can go to our website www.rainrockcasino.com there’s a full listing of all the positions that will be available at the job fair but they’re looking for everything; entry level all the way up to supervision, some management positions, so some that are bare bones don’t require any experience at all, all the way up to you know full level management positions that are gonna be available there. Most of these jobs are 21 and older, there are a few that are open to 18 and older, but other than that that’s really just we’re looking for people we can do attitude and really customer orientated and friendly and outgoing. Craig: Ok and what about dealers? I imagine you got to hire a lot of people who are in the pits if you will handling the money and all that. What kind of requirements I mean do they have to come in with that background or do you train them? Brandon: Sure, so actually one of the things we’re looking for right now before even the job fair hits is we’re taking applications for table games dealers; experience or no experience. Table games is it takes a little more training before we open the doors so we want to make sure our dealers are fully capable of getting those cards out there on the tables, so we’re actually gonna hold a paid training class that will begin January 9th and run for 4 to 5 weeks so we are taking currently applications for that, no need to wait for the job fair just contact our human resources. All the information is on the website www.rainrockcasino.com Craig: Ok and again the times for the job fair is Friday and Saturday this weekend. Brandon: Correct, Friday so from 3 to 6; so in the evening and then Saturday from 9 am to noon. Craig: Ok, very good, great to see you. Brandon: Hey thanks for having me out. Craig: Thank you so much for being here, it’s very exciting. Brandon: Absolutely. Craig: Alright stay with us, we’ll be right back.
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