Jobs in Vegas

Predator314 · #1 10-10-2006, 11:50 AM

Can anyone tell me what the job market is like in Las Vegas? I'm not talking about being a dealer. I'm talkign professional jobs like I.T. jobs or something like that. I would assume that the casinos have IT teams and are constantly needing help. Anyone have any experience here?

lwlee · #2 10-10-2006, 12:41 PM

Predator314,

I read your blog all the time. Thinking about moving to Vegas. Sounds real cool. IT during the day and poker at night. Sounds like the life. I was in IT for awhile.

bav · #3 10-10-2006, 04:54 PM

There is obviously some. The casinos need folks to make the networks and PC's go. And their corporate offices need a few people. And Shufflemaster and the like need people. UNLV and the community colleges hire a few tech weenies. There's a fair pile of DOD-related work, too, if you have a clearance and particularly if you're into spending 3 days in the desert camping with the troops running the latest Top Secret whizbang gizmo Rockwell produced.

But I've run into exactly 0 local IT people at the poker tables; they may be there, but in random conversations nobody has ever said "I live in Vegas and I'm an IT person". As a percentage of the job market, it's tiny. It's just not a technocentric area like DC, SillyValley, Boston, Research Triangle, Seattle, etc.

pig4bill · #4 10-11-2006, 03:30 AM

I've been searching the IT job market off and on for years because I wouldn't mind living there. Basically, that market sucks. There are a handful of jobs there, but if you do get a job there, it's likely the only one you'll be able to find there. As in, you've got nowhere else to go if you hate your boss or get fired or laid off. It sucks.

Vuron00 · #5 10-11-2006, 11:25 AM

I've been looking in IT jobs for the last month. I found a great job last month, but they couldn't hold it for me and I can't start until the beginning of the year.

The 2 best casinos for IT jobs are MGM and Harrah's.

For MGM, I use this site.. http://secure02.mgm-mirage.com/employment/jobsearch.asp all of their IT jobs are under the "MGM Mirage - Corporate" dropdown.

Harrah's lists all of their jobs on Hotjobs.. Just put Harrah's in the keyword field and pick Vegas.

Good luck.

lwlee · #6 10-11-2006, 11:28 AM

If you work at MGM, you can't gamble there? But you can gamble anywhere else?

52s · #7 10-12-2006, 11:52 PM

Not much in the way of IT jobs out here, unless you go to work for one of the casinos or one of the banks. It's usually the casinos' corporate headquarters that are in need of IT guys.

Really not much here.

Spook · #8 10-13-2006, 04:05 AM

Harrahs recently changed their policy to allow employees to play poker. However the policy explicitly bars IT employees from playing at any location.

eobmtns · #9 10-13-2006, 12:37 PM

I work in IT security (not in LV) and I was standing in line for the seafood buffet at the Rio. There is a kiosk as you go in where you can buy meal tickets. One of the kiosks was displaying Windows Help and Support Center (instead of the buffet-ticketing application) and one of the links was "Run Windows Update." So I clicked on it, and after a while it came back and said, "36 Critical Updates need to be installed." So if you are a hax0r it would appear that Harrahs is prime hunting ground....