Casino operator Tiger Resorts Leisure & Entertainment has put up the “wanted” sign for its soon-to-open Okada Manila resort.

Okada Manila president Steve Wostenholme said they are targeting to complete recruitment for 8,000 positions before the soft launch in November. Wolstenholme said the goal is to hire “more local talents” who will fill up positions in casino gaming, casino, marketing, club operations, security and surveillance, facilities management, cage operations, hotel operations, and food and beverages.

Tiger Resorts, a subsidiary of Kazuo Okada’s Universal Entertainment, already announced last year that it will be hiring from the domestic labor market, but it was only recently—particularly after Okada announced a name change and official opening date—that the casino operator ramped up the recruitment process, starting with a job fair that was attended by more than 10,000 job seekers.

“Since the announcement of the new property name and the official soft opening date, our recruitment team has been bullish on hiring quality talents from the local labor market to fill up positions in both our casino and hotel operations and we are very happy to have attracted exactly 10,139 Filipinos which had to go through a rigid selection process,” Wolstenholme said in a statement.