“Name another company in North Carolina that will have 300 more employees at this time next year than they do today.
“We are one of the few businesses that is adding jobs,” said Darold Londo, the general manager of Harrah’s Cherokee. It has another 300 to go by this time next year when the expansion is built out. Harrah’s has hired 500 new employees over the past two years to run the new hotel tower, expanded gaming floor and half a dozen new restaurants. Hiring is such an all-consuming task that official signs point the way to “applicant parking” and even an “applicant entrance” on the casino property. It takes a staff of seven, day in and day out, to sift through all those applications and set up interviews. The casino has averaged 30 new employees a week during the height of its expansion. Hiring that many new workers - plus keeping up with turnover - is no small feat. But there’s an anomaly here in the far end of the state, where Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Resort is in the throes of a $633 million expansion, one that will bring 800 new jobs to an otherwise desolate labor market.
Help wanted signs aren’t too common these days.
