The Hard Rock is offering incentives, including a $300 signing bonus, flexible schedules and benefits for full-time employees, to lure in applicants like Scott Hendel. I worked at a gas station, and then from there, I went to a casino in Jacksonville and now trying to move down here since everything’s opening back up and stuff,” Wooten explained. “I used to be a waitress for three years, and then corona shut down the restaurants and everything. Lynsey said an injury at his former job, combined with the pandemic, left him unemployed.ĭejah Wooten is about to move to South Florida from Jacksonville, and she was hoping to be dealt a winning hand at the job fair.
“Any type of job at this point, just something to help pay the bills again,” said Brian Lynch, describing what he was looking for at the job fair. “It was a pandemic layoff, I haven’t been working, excited to get back to work doing something I like.” “I’m just looking for a new job, I got laid off from my former employer which was a cruise line, so I’m just ready to bounce back,” Hendel said. Broward Schools enrollment down by 3,000 students - so school leaders consider ‘tough decisions'
