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NMTI presents job options to NAP recipients
More than 100 participated in the employment opportunity presentation held by the Northern Marianas Trades Institute yesterday in Lower Base. (Erwin Encinares)
The Northern Marianas Trades Institute held a job presentation yesterday to beneficiaries of the local food stamp program, Nutritional Assistance Program.
The occasion was intended to raise awareness that hotel establishments are looking for more local employees to add to their workforce.
NMTI registrar Norisa Camacho said that three of four hotels invited to make a presentation responded to the invitation: Imperial Pacific Resort, Fiesta Resort and Spa Saipan, and Kensington Hotel.
“The presentation was focused on opportunities in the hospitality industry,” said Camacho.
Camacho said that more than 100 participants, most of them residents who are being assisted by the Nutritional Assistance Program, registered for the employment presentation.
“We have a big range of NAP recipients here today and we are encouraging our NAP recipients to apply for a class at NMTI. After the course, we place them in an on-the-job training, or OJT, so IPI, Kensington and Fiesta are possible hotels that could be applied to for OJT,” she said.
Camacho said that many hotels are interested in hiring local employees. The presentation was a good way of bringing awareness to the community that “a lot of [hotels] out there are looking for employment.”
Josephine Mesta, NMTI director of student development and Hyatt Regency Saipan human resource manager, said that hotels want to conduct employment opportunity presentations at NMTI because NMTI has classes that teach hotel and hospitality related skills.
“The [hotels] want to utilize our students. We are constantly offering classes all year long as open enrollment, so they know that we always have students,” said Mesta.
NMTI is set to open its doors for the new semester on March 20 for the hospitality course and on March 28 for the culinary arts course.
For this semester, NMTI culinary arts enrollees number 30 students; the hotel and hospitality course has 41 students enrolled.
Since NMTI opened, it claims to have an 88.8 percent job placement rate.
For more information on enrolling, contact NMTI at 235-6684 or 323-6684.
