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Osage Casinos hosting hiring events for new Bartlesville and Pawhuska casinos

With opening dates coming for the new Osage Casino & Hotels at Bartlesville and Pawhuska, career fair events are being planned to recruit gaming and hospitality employees to staff both properties.

The first career fair was held in Pawhuska on Aug. 30 at the Osage Nation Civic Center.

Throughout September, Osage Casinos will host weekly on-the-spot hiring events at both currently open Pawhuska and Bartlesville casinos. 

Weekly on-the-spot hiring events will be held as follows:

  • Pawhuska: Tuesdays (1 to 4 p.m.) and Thursdays (6 to 9 p.m.)
  • Bartlesville: Wednesdays (1 to 4 p.m.) and Fridays (6 to 9 p.m.)

Kyle Revard, Chief Human Resources Officer for Osage Casinos, told the Gaming Enterprise Board on Aug. 23 that his office has been working for months on staff and training plans for the two new properties.

The new Pawhuska casino and hotel is scheduled to open Oct. 5 with a preview event for Osage tribal members on Oct. 4.

A separate career fair event is being planned for Bartlesville in late September to fill gaming and hospitality positions at that respective property with details to follow, Revard said. An opening date for the respective Bartlesville casino and hotel has yet to be announced.

Revard said “we’re targeting roughly around 120 new hires for Pawhuska” and his office has received 250-plus applications for review. In the meantime, Revard said his office has hosted four-hour weekly hiring events in August at Pawhuska and Bartlesville besides the career fair events.

In addition to meeting specific job qualifications, all Osage Casino applicants will be subject to drug testing and must pass a background check process to obtain a gaming license from the Osage Nation Gaming Commission.

For more online information on other Osage Casino employment opportunities visit the casino’s career page at: https://www.osagecasino.com/careers/

Author

  • Benny Polacca

    Title: Senior Reporter

    Email: bpolacca@osagenation-nsn.gov

    Instagram: @bpolacca

    Topic Expertise: Government, Tribal Government, Community

    Languages spoken: English, basic knowledge of Spanish and French

    Benny Polacca (Hopi/ Havasupai/ Pima/ Tohono O’odham) started working at the Osage News in 2009 as a reporter in Pawhuska, Okla., where he’s covered various stories and events that impact the Osage Nation and Osage people. Those newspaper contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics and issues from tribal government matters to features. As a result, Polacca has gained an immeasurable amount of experience in covering Native American affairs, government issues and features so the Osage readership can be better informed about the tribal current affairs the newspaper covers.

    Polacca is part of the Osage News team that was awarded the Native American Journalists Association's Elias Boudinet Free Press Award in 2014 and has won numerous NAJA media awards, as well as awards from the Oklahoma Press Association and SPJ Oklahoma Pro Chapter, for storytelling coverage and photography.

    Polacca earned his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and also participated in the former American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota where he was introduced to the basics of journalism and worked with seasoned journalists there and later at The Forum daily newspaper covering the Fargo, N.D. area where he worked as the weeknight reporter.

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Benny Polacca
Benny Polaccahttps://osagenews.org

Title: Senior Reporter

Email: bpolacca@osagenation-nsn.gov

Instagram: @bpolacca

Topic Expertise: Government, Tribal Government, Community

Languages spoken: English, basic knowledge of Spanish and French

Benny Polacca (Hopi/ Havasupai/ Pima/ Tohono O’odham) started working at the Osage News in 2009 as a reporter in Pawhuska, Okla., where he’s covered various stories and events that impact the Osage Nation and Osage people. Those newspaper contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics and issues from tribal government matters to features. As a result, Polacca has gained an immeasurable amount of experience in covering Native American affairs, government issues and features so the Osage readership can be better informed about the tribal current affairs the newspaper covers.

Polacca is part of the Osage News team that was awarded the Native American Journalists Association's Elias Boudinet Free Press Award in 2014 and has won numerous NAJA media awards, as well as awards from the Oklahoma Press Association and SPJ Oklahoma Pro Chapter, for storytelling coverage and photography.

Polacca earned his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and also participated in the former American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota where he was introduced to the basics of journalism and worked with seasoned journalists there and later at The Forum daily newspaper covering the Fargo, N.D. area where he worked as the weeknight reporter.

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