Nevada’s unemployment rate in June, the latest available data, was 5.4 percent for the third consecutive month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Loesch is one of thousands of Nevadans who have been empowered to move between jobs until they find the right fit, leaving hospitality companies on a perpetual search for employees - all while new competitors in the market prepare to try to hire thousands more. Labor specialists and hiring managers in Las Vegas say that hospitality sector jobs have grown in the past year, pushing past some of the worst of the so-called Great Resignation of 2022 when employees were leaving jobs and finding new ones at record rates across the country.īut the effect of that zeitgeist is still being felt. “I just want consistency and a good enough pay.” Some weeks you get hours, other week’s you’re like, ugh,” Loesch said. On a recent Thursday in July, she visited an MGM Resorts International housekeeping hiring event at the EmployNV Career Hub and was able to walk away with a new job.

But after about a month of limited hours for her on-call job in a Paris Las Vegas restaurant, she said she was ready to look elsewhere for something that promised to be more steady. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Loesch got her first hospitality job on the Strip in May, leaving call centers behind in hopes of earning better wages from tipped work in resort-casinos. Job seeker Tieyana, 18, right, checks in with Shalynn Kelly during an MGM Resorts International job fair at EmployNV Career Hub in Las Vegas Thursday, July 27, 2023.

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