Las Vegas resident Yodit Belete was looking for a server or bartending job at last month’s massive Spring Job Fair, hosted by Clark County.
She moved to Las Vegas in early March and wanted work at one of the newer Strip properties.
“Finding a job in Vegas, I feel like it’s about a connection,” Belete said. “You have to have a plug; you have to know people. It don’t matter how you look, what kind of experience you have — it don’t matter. It’s that you need people that know someone, someone knows someone.”
Nevada leads the nation when it comes to the pace of jobs added each month, clocking in at 5.1 percent in February, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Texas and Florida follow behind, each with a job growth rate of 4.6 percent.
