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Echo Bluff State Park to Host Career Fair
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Shannon County, MO – April 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / Echo Bluff State Park, Missouri’s 88th state park, will host a career fair in mid-April to build its operations team. 

The career fair will take place at Current River State Park located on Shannon County Road 19-D in Salem on Wednesday, April 13 from noon to 7 p.m., Thursday, April 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, April 15 from 8 a.m. to noon.

Guest Services, Inc. a national hospitality management company and national and state park concessionaire will be operating the concession operation at the park. Among the available positions with Guest Services are: 

  • Management Team
  • Culinary and Food and Beverage Service Team
  • Front Desk 
  • Housekeeping
  • Maintenance
  • Retail
Applicants are encouraged to visit EchoBluffStatePark.com to complete an online application prior to the Career Fair. Anyone interested may apply online, or in-person at the Career Fair.

Guest Services, Inc. offers a superb slate of benefits, including

  • Flexible schedules
  • Medical*, Dental*, Vision* and Life Insurance*
  • 401(k) with company match*
*Some benefits are available to year round, full time employees only.

Representatives from Missouri State Parks will also be in attendance to explain the process for applying for jobs within the State of Missouri. The park system plans to hire full-time and seasonal staff including:

  • Park and Natural Resources Management
  • Maintenance
  • Interpretive Resources 
Additional information on employment opportunities within the state park system is available at mostateparks.com/page/55061/employment-opportunities

For nearly a century, Guest Services, Inc. has earned the reputation as a premier hospitality management company and national and state park concessionaire that has taken great care and pride in delivering best-in-class food, lodging, retail and recreation services. The Fairfax, Virginia-based company and its subsidiaries employ over 3,500 staff at more than 250 facilities, which welcome approximately 30 million guests annually across the United States. Guest Services, Inc. is proud to welcome visitors at Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park and Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area in Washington, several parks in the Washington, D.C. area, and state parks such as Bear Mountain in New York, in addition to Missouri’s newest state park in the Ozarks – the much anticipated Echo Bluff State Park. To learn more visit GuestServices.com.
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Missouri State ParksMissouri’s state park system, which on multiple occasions has been ranked as one of the top four state park systems in the nation, contains 88 state parks and historic sites plus the trails at Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry. Within nearly 150,000 acres available to the public, the state park system has something to fit everyone’s needs. Missouri State Parks is a division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. For more information on state parks and historic sites, visit mostateparks.com.

Contacts:

Liz Morris
Guest Services, Inc.

Steph Deidrick
Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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Placement Dates: 04/12/16 – 06/12/16
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