I THANK Mr Tan Shao Ken for his letter on Thursday, 'IR jobs: Are Singaporeans being given priority?'

We understand Mr Tan's concerns and assure Singaporeans that Resorts World at Sentosa is and always will be committed to hiring Singaporeans first. We envisage that the bulk of our 10,000 job openings will be filled by Singaporeans.

Since we were awarded the integrated resort (IR) in December 2006, we have been working very closely with local universities, polytechnics as well as government agencies such as the Singapore Tourism Board, Workforce Development Agency (WDA), community development councils, the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to draw alliances for manpower planning, hiring and training of Singaporean mature workers, back-to-work mothers, retrenched professionals, managers, executives and technicians, and workers, as well as fresh school leavers.

Krist Boo (Ms)
Vice-President, Communications
Resorts World at Sentosa

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