Mar 1, 2009 8:11 pm US/Pacific
500 Positions Offered At Dodger Stadium Job Fair
LOS ANGELES
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Dodgers Stadium has more than 500 jobs available for positions in ushering, security, maintenance and food service. The job fair will continue Sunday in the Stadium Club and third baseline suites. (File)
Courtesy Jared Turner
A weekend job fair at Dodger Stadium will continue Sunday, as an estimated 5,000 people showed up Saturday to apply for some 500 seasonal, stadium jobs the baseball team needs to fill.
Last year, only about 800 people came out to the stadium to apply for these jobs at the annual job fair. The spike in applicants is directly related to the current 10.1 percent unemployment rate in California.
"It would be a pleasure to work with the (Dodger) blue because I'm a
fan," one job-seeker said.
"I've been up here quite a few times for games," said another. "I never thought I would actually be up here applying for a job."
Positions available included ushers, and spots in security, maintenance and food service.
"I'm willing to do just about anything at this point," one woman said. "Every other time I've been unemployed I could get a job like that and no problem and no worries, and now it's just unbelievable."
A job interviewer said he'd seen people who were "laid off from a manufacturing job, a law firm, a restaurant job."
"Someone who hasn't worked in three months or someone who's been laid off as recent as yesterday -- we're getting the full range of job-seekers here," he said.
One man interested in doing maintenance work described the scene as "a lot of people trying to apply for the same job."
Although the job fair ended at 4 p.m., Dodger interviewers were on-site until 10 p.m. finishing up due to the turnout.
The job fair will continue Sunday in the Stadium Club and third baseline suites.
Prospective applicants should enter at the Sunset Gate starting at 9:30 a.m., where they will receive information on the positions available.
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