How I hired my first workers by posting a job

When you start in this game, your own citizens do the work in your buildings. That is fine in the very beginning. But after a while your town grows and you need more hands than you have, and this is where I got stuck for some time, because I did not understand how to get more workers. So here is what I learned about posting a job, explained simple for other new players. The idea is that you do not only use your own people. You can post a job offer in the workplaces part of the game, and then citizens that belong to other players can come and take that job and work for you. It felt strange to me at first, like borrowing people, but this is a normal part of the economy here and it is how bigger towns keep everything running. The main thing you decide when you post a job is the salary, how much you pay. And here there is an important choice. You can pay in gold, and if you do that, then anyone in the whole game can apply to your job, because gold is the global money everybody understands. Or you can pay in your local country money, and then only people from your own country can take it. So gold opens your job to the whole world, local keeps it inside your country. I use this depending on who I want to attract. One detail that confused me, there is a minimum for the salary. You cannot post a gold salary that is too tiny, it has to be at least a small amount, I think it is 0.001 gold at the lowest. So you cannot try to pay almost nothing, the game does not allow it, which honestly is fair for the workers. Now the most important lesson, and I learned this the hard way. The pay is live. It is not put aside in advance, the salary comes out of your balance at the moment the work happens. This means if your balance runs empty, your job postings simply turn off and your workers stop. The first time this happened I was confused why suddenly nobody was working for me, and it was only because I let my money go to zero. So the rule I follow now is always keep some money ready to cover the salaries you promised. Do not post jobs and then spend everything on buildings, or your workforce disappears. Another small thing I had to learn is to think about who I actually want for the job. If I pay in my local money, I get people from my own country, which can be nice because it keeps things simple and familiar, and I am not spending gold. If I pay in gold, I open it to the whole world and usually I get takers faster, but I am spending my precious gold on salaries. So I try to ask myself first, is this job worth paying gold for, or is my local money enough for it this time. My simple advice for a beginner getting into this. Start small, post one or two jobs with a fair salary, watch how much it actually costs you over a day, and make sure your income covers it before you add more workers. It is very easy to promise more salary than your town actually earns, and then everything stops. Grow the workforce slowly, in step with your income, and it works smoothly. Posting jobs was the thing that finally let my town do more than my own little population could handle. It is not complicated once you understand it, you just set a fair pay, choose gold for the world or local for your country, respect the minimum, and most important keep your balance funded so the live salaries never run dry. I hope this saves somebody the confusion I had.