SENTOSA integrated resort has started its recruitment drive, even as other firms are laying off workers.

It will hire in stages, starting with taking in 300 managers and supervisors to run the 20-ha Universal Studios Singapore that will open in first quarter of 2010 in Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS).

The IR will need 10,000 to run its resort when it is in full swing.

RWS head of human resources and training Seah-Khoo Ee Boon on Monday said some of the 200 managers needed to oversee the park would be recruited from overseas since there are not enough such experienced people here.

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