BRUSH up on your Spanish and make sure you have the ‘right attitude’ if you want to get a job at the Fiesta’s Grand Palladium Resort in Point, Hanover.

These, the hotel’s director of human resources, Roderick Robertson, said will be key when selecting the approximately 1,000 workers needed when recruitment starts. The Spanish hotel is scheduled to be opened next February.

“We are going to be employing just about everybody you know who works in a hotel from the janitor to management staff, front office, restaurants, bars, pools, entertainment, just about everything and we are going to try and concentrate our efforts on Hanover and immediate areas around the hotel.

“However, we know that we won’t be able to find everybody around, that’s why we are working with a number of training institutions in Hanover, St James and Westmoreland to see how best they can prepare persons for these jobs. We are just going to try and get the best because Fiesta is a notch up from the other Spanish hotels and we have to get the best people in to deliver the best service to our clientele,” Robertson said.

He was addressing the Jamaica National Building Society’s advocacy forum that looked at employment opportunities in Hanover.

Andrew Gallimore, the junior minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, in addressing the forum, said several radical changes would have to be made in order to “put Jamaicans back to work”.