By Jalelah Abu Baker

CLOSE to 2,000 people turned up at a new luxury hotel on Sentosa yesterday looking to land one of about 200 jobs on offer.

Due to open on March 8, Capella Singapore is aiming to fill both managerial and rank-and-file jobs with a two-day walk-in recruitment drive which ended yesterday.

Among the job-seekers were freelance workers, people looking for a career switch, and retrenched workers.

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