{"id":334478,"date":"2020-12-04T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334478"},"modified":"2020-12-04T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:02:02","slug":"hyatt-at-40-is-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hyatt-at-40-is-historic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hyatt at 40 is historic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334479\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MESTA2-300x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyatt director for Human Resources Josephine Mesta. (Bea Cabrera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Josephine Mesta can\u2019t help but get sentimental when she looks back and see how far Hyatt Regency Saipan has gone in the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Mesta, who is Hyatt\u2019s director for Human Resources, worked at the hotel when it was still the Continental Hotel.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSo I am almost making a full circle. \u2026It\u2019s been a wonderful ride for me as a career,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>For the 40 years that the hotel has been in operation in the CNMI, Mesta said that they have been actively involved in the community. \u201cWe are a company that believes that we have a social responsibility, wherever we are at,\u201d she said. \u201cThe past few months have been filled with many bittersweet moments, especially at this time of the pandemic. We had to let go of several employees who came in at the same time as I did. \u2026It\u2019s heartbreaking [but] cest la vie, we didn\u2019t create the situation but we  have to respond to it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mesta saw the growth of the Hyatt workforce over the years and is proud of the loyalty many of them have showed. \u201cIt is interesting to see the evolution of this business. \u2026When I started, it was 20% U.S. workforce but now it\u2019s 100% U.S. workforce. \u2026Sadly,  we lost a lot of our key players, the ones who are experienced and  I hope some of them would return somehow,\u201d she said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mentality is the work that we do is  more than just a job and a lot of employees share the same sentiments we have. We have employees who probably have an average of  10-plus years and one 30-plus years.  It is where we grew up. \u2026I was in my prime when I joined Hyatt\u2026but I wouldn\u2019t trade it [for other careers]. \u2026Even after 27 years, I still feel I have more to do here not only in the coming days but hopefully for the next 40 years,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josephine Mesta can\u2019t help but get sentimental when she looks back and see how far&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":334480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}