How the workers really work (recruit, hire, school) - what i wish i knew

salam everybody. i am playing since some weeks and at the begining i was very confused about the workers. there is recruit, there is hire, there is the school, and for me in the start it was all the same word. but it is not the same thing at all. so i want to share what i understood now, maybe it is usefull for the new players like me. the first thing, the difference between recruit and hire. this is the big confusion for everybody i think. to RECRUIT a citizen you go to the town hall. the town hall is the building that bring new workers to your city. but attention, every new worker need a room to live. if you have no free room, you can not recruit, the game block you. so before you recruit you must have houses with empty apartment. if you dont have, you are stuck. for make more room you build a new house, or you raise the level of a house you already have. so the first lesson for me was clear: the house come before the people, always. now after you recruit, the citizen is in your town but he is not working yet. he is what the game call a free worker. it mean he is idle, he has no job. you can see this number in the top bar, free workers. these people live in your town and they occupy a room, but for the moment they produce nothing for you. to make them produce you HIRE them into a building. when a building is finished but empty, you hire, and it take the worker from the free workers of THIS town, not from nowhere. it cost 1 energy and it is instant, no waiting time. this part i like because it is fast. but you must remember it use the people you already recruited. it does not create new people. so the chain is always the same: room, then recruit, then hire. ok now the school, because this one i ignored for too long and it was a real mistake. a normal recruited worker is not qualified. for many buildings it is ok, they work without problem. but some buildings refuse the unqualified people. for exemple the church, it can not take a simple worker, it want a professional, like a priest. and you can not recruit a priest directly from the town hall. so what you do? you send a citizen to the school. the school train the people without qualification into different jobs, from cook until priest and many others. after the formation he become a professional, and now he can enter the building that needs it. i discovered this when i try to put a worker in a church and the game say no. i was searching everywhere why, i thaught again it is a bug. it was not a bug. it was because i never trained anybody in my town. so if some building reject your worker, think about the school first, before you get angry like me. another information that cost me a lot, the service buildings. the police, the firehall, the church, the hospital, and also the graveyard. these ones do not produce a product, but a lot of other buildings need them near for the influence they give. and very important: they hire workers AND they expire after 30 days. so even your police station is not for ever. after one month it is finished and you must rebuild it. i did not know this and one day the half of my influence buildings died in the same time. it was a real catastrophe for my production. so to resume my small experience, the order is like this: 1) build and upgrade the houses to have rooms. 2) go to the town hall and recruit citizens into those rooms. 3) for a normal building, hire the free worker directly, it is 1 energy. 4) for a building that needs a professional, like the church, pass by the school first to train him. 5) and never forget the service buildings expire after 30 days, the same like many other things. it looks simple when it is written like this, but believe me at the begining it is really not obvious. the game does not hold your hand. i passed many days blocked, because i had buildings ready and no worker, or workers and no room, or a church that refuse everybody. if you are new, my advice is to always keep some free rooms and a few free workers in reserve. like this, when a building finish or when somebody die, you can replace quickly and your production does not stop. an empty building is money you lose every hour, so it is better to be ready. i hope this help somebody. and if i said something wrong, the more experienced players can correct me, because i am still learning also. good luck to all of you.