MGM Mirage’s CityCenter will open later this year with more than 12,000 employees, and the property has begun hiring for many of its open positions. The company has received nearly 140,000 applications since January.

CityCenter’s non-gaming hotel, Mandarin Oriental, is in the process of hiring 500 employees, all of whom will be given a binder of strict customer service guidelines in order to ensure that every guest is treated like royalty.

CityCenter may be hiring the most workers, but other Las Vegas resorts are looking to beef up their staff as well. Planet Hollywood held a job fair July 30 and 31 to fill 800 positions at the PH Towers, which will open in November.

The Hard Rock Hotel’s new Hard Rock Café, which will open on the Strip this summer, is seeking 500 employees. The Hard Rock’s job fair will last from July 28 to August 5. The Hard Rock also hired 800 new team members to staff its expansion last month.

The hiring blitz is good news for Nevadans, 12 percent of whom are unemployed as of this month. The unemployment rate is the state’s highest ever. The resorts typically weed out undesirable candidates with online applications, and then schedule interviews at job fairs with prospective candidates. CityCenter built a stand-alone career center just west of the Strip to meet potential employees.