Gaming vacancies surge 74 percent

The number of vacancies in the gaming sector jumped substantially by 74 percent year-on-year to 628, according to the results of survey on manpower needs and wages of the Gaming for the second quarter of this year released yesterday by the Statistics and Census Service.
At the end of June, gaming companies were mostly in need of workers for clerks (376) and services and sales workers (165). Amongst the clerk’s occupation, there were 174 vacancies for dealers and 96 for hard and soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons and betting service operators.
On the other hand, services and sales workers’ vacancies included 125 for casino and slot machine attendants, security guards, surveillance room operators, etc.
In a short time period the situation can get worse as recently the MSS Recruitment’s Macau Job Market 2010 overview showed that the opening of the Galaxy Macau and the Sands China plots 5 and 6 in Cotai will require 22,000 more workers. Both companies admitted that recruiting locally might not be enough.
Aside from that, the MSS Recruitment managing director, Jiji Tu stressed that the opening of two more resorts in Cotai means “more job opportunities” for local workers. However, she reminded that Macau already has a “pretty tight” job market, with only 9,600 unemployed.
Analysing the first half of the year, the gaming sector had 43,870 employees, down slightly by 0.2 percent year-on-year. On the other hand, In June, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose slightly by 0.9 percent year-on-year to MOP 15,390.