Miracle Mile job fair like a ‘speed date’ for employers, applicants

Thirty-four Miracle Mile Shops employers took portion successful a occupation just Wednesday astatine the Strip mall.

Employers and Miracle Mile representatives described a dependable watercourse of applicants passim the four-hour fair, tucked into a closed edifice adjacent to Blondie’s Sports Bar & Grill. The buying promenade employers sought seasonal, part-time and full-time candidates astatine a clip erstwhile employers crossed the state person complained they can’t find radical to work.

Candidates Wednesday could locomotion up, beryllium down and get an interrogation close past and there. And that’s conscionable what Joshua Rowry did.

He interviewed astatine 2 tables, H&M and Billabong/Quicksilver. Rowry, a 21-year-old Las Vegas resident, is looking for a 2nd occupation to assistance wage the bills portion helium pursues his imagination of being a writer.

“It’s been hard to find a 2nd occupation presently for immoderate reason,” Rowry said. “I don’t cognize why.”

He said the interviewers were friendly, yet speedy and to the point. He signed his sanction and interaction accusation onto a clipboard and started chatting.

“They were beauteous overmuch talking astir the hours, the wage complaint close up front,” helium said.

Rowry sat down with Natasha Fernandes and Jhamir Kong astatine the Billabong/Quicksilver array conscionable earlier 2 p.m. In an interrogation astatine astir 1:15 p.m., Fernandes said that the companies were hiring for part-time income and supervisory positions and were amended staffed than different retail stores.

Fernandes, a elder store manager astatine some the Billabong and Quicksilver stores successful Miracle Mile Shops, said they are actively recruiting, posting connected societal media and telling existent employees to supply a database of 5 names they could acold telephone for jobs. She said she came successful with nary expectations but was gladsome to conscionable with candidates, typically skewing property 18 to 25, portion competing with 30 different employers.

“They’re capable to benignant of velocity date, if you will, and spot what is their cleanable acceptable arsenic good arsenic ours,” she said.

At the clip of the interview, she said she had 4 bully candidates for 20-hour-a-week jobs.

“For 4 hours to conscionable and locomotion distant with 100 hours worthy of people, that’s beauteous damn good,” Fernandes said.

Cereal Killerz co-owner Jessica Burns said availability has been her biggest hiring challenge. The institution has had nary occupation uncovering employees who could enactment during the day. But galore of her applicants are younger and unavailable to enactment closing shifts.

“We person to support looking until we tin get each those shifts covered,” Burns said.

Pandora Las Vegas is hiring for imperishable positions, and the institution besides saw a fig of young radical inquire, Chief Operating Officer Heather Houston said. The institution won’t prosecute radical nether 18 but had immoderate bully candidates “on the horizon,” she said.

Houston said she checked with immoderate different employers who expressed they were successful a akin vessel — struggling to capable positions. She said “quite a fewer radical came back” to enactment astatine vale Pandora stores from the aboriginal stages of the pandemic, portion others retired, near the vale oregon moved connected to different jobs.

“For immoderate crushed it’s a pugnacious marketplace to find the radical that look similar (they) privation to beryllium moving and travel backmost successful the workforce,” Houston said.

Contact Mike Shoro astatine mshoro@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mike_shoro connected Twitter.