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Useful experience for table games dealers includes money handling or customer service roles.

Table games dealers may do some or all of the following:

• open the cash float and game table
• check the cards and equipment that will be used in the game
• exchange money for chips
• start and control the game
• calculate the number of chips players have won and lost
• pay out chips
• close the float and table, and make sure it all balances.

Table games dealers are usually trained in only a few games.

Job opportunities arise fairly frequently at casinos due to promotions, resignations and retirements, and most casinos have regular intakes of new staff. For example, Skycity Auckland may have between three and six intakes of trainee table games dealers each year.

Competition high for table games dealer jobs

Competition is high for table games dealer jobs due to:

• the availability of part-time work and shifts
• being able to enter the job without post-school qualifications
• good on-the-job training opportunities, which make it possible to advance into management

Skycity is largest employer of table games dealers

Skycity's casino in Auckland employs the most table games dealers in New Zealand. The casino operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The majority of table games dealers are employed on part-time contracts.

The following casinos also employ table games dealers:

• Skycity Hamilton
• Skycity Queenstown
• Christchurch Casino
• Dunedin Casino.

Table games dealers also work on cruise ships.

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(04) 495 7200 - casino.compliance@dia.govt.nz - www.dia.govt.nz

Table games dealers may progress into supervisory and management roles.

Table games dealers need to be:

• friendly and outgoing
• good at communicating and listening, as they may have to deal with people who do not speak English as their first language
• good at dealing with difficult customers
• tactful, honest and reliable
• able to work quickly and accurately.