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by: Gene Koprowski.
Casino king Steve Wynn -- proprietor of the famous Wynn Las Vegas Casino and Hotel -- says hiring will begin this for 5,300 positions at his new Encore resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

Encore, with 2,034 rooms, is due to open by the end of the year right next door to the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
Wynn tells reporters he sees good and bad in the current U.S. economic slump, which he thinks is affecting other hotels and casinos more than his high-end Wynn Las Vegas resort.
Wynn says employees at other places might be reluctant to leave jobs to start a new job with a probationary period at the $2.1 billion Encore.

But he notes that people who've been laid off might be looking to find a job at what he calls "a joint that's pretty stable."

Company officials say hiring is going to be "handled online."
Wynn is credited with leading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of the strip in the 1990s. His firms refurbished or built some of the most widely recognized resorts in Las Vegas such as the Golden Nugget, The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio, and Wynn. As of 2008, Wynn is the 277th richest man in the world with a wealth of $3.9 billion, according to Forbes Magazine.

Wynn's father, Michael Weinberg, ran a string of bingo parlors in eastern U.S. In 1946, he had changed his name to "Wynn" as part of a marketing strategy to escape anti-Jewish bias. Wynn was raised in Utica, New York, and graduated from The Manlius School, a private boys' school east of Syracuse, New York, in 1959. He studied cultural anthropology and English literature at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. In 1963, his father died of complications from open heart surgery in Minneapolis shortly before Wynn graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.

Wynn took over running the family's bingo operation in Maryland. He did well enough at it to accumulate the money to buy a small stake in the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where he and Elaine moved in 1967.


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Wynn managed to parlay his profits from a land deal in 1971 -- the deal involved Howard Hughes and Caesars Palace -- into a controlling interest in the landmark downtown casino, the Golden Nugget Las Vegas. He also owned The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. Wynn renovated, revamped and expanded the Golden Nugget from a gambling hall to a resort hotel and casino with huge success, in the process attracting a new upscale clientele to downtown Las Vegas, according to analysts.

Wynn was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President George W. Bush on October 30, 2006, and is viewed as one of the most important businessmen in the U.S. today.

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