The casino will create more than 3,000 jobs. “This is the first brush stroke of the renaissance,” said Matt Harkness, president of the Hard Rock, which plans to open this summer. Hard Rock plans additional job recruiting events in the coming weeks for people who applied online and did not necessarily work at the Taj Mahal. About 1,600 such workers were invited to apply for jobs, and 1,400 did. But for many laid-off workers, the first step on the road to recovery started Tuesday, when the shuttered former Trump Taj Mahal casino began interviewing job applicants for its reincarnation this summer as a Hard Rock casino resort. Since 2014, casino closings eliminated 11,000 jobs and devastated the economy of the Atlantic City region. ATLANTIC CITY > Thousands of Atlantic City casino jobs lost during a brutal three-year stretch when five casinos shut down are coming back.
