Localizor

This is a list of employees that applied to the open position in your company. You can select employees to inspect them and press the {H:Hire} button to hire them. Employees are expensive and you should probably wait before you hire any if you are just starting out. Try selecting an employee on the list.

You can save your filters if you want to use them again later. Alternatively, you can look for any lead designers out of work currently. Press {H:Begin looking} to start your reviewing applicants.

You can further filter your applicants by toggling any of the filter toggles. Note that each active filter will increase the cost and reduce the amount of applicants you get. The hiring pool is limited and affected by how appealing your company is to potential employees. The hiring pool refreshes every month and can be boosted when other companies close down.

Then you need to decide how much money you want to give your potential employee per month. It is very important that you make sure you have enough money to actually pay them or you'll go bankrupt very quickly. The quality of applicants will depend on how high you set the salary and your company benefits, among other things. Very high skilled employees only have a chance to appear in the highest salary bracket. Note that higher skilled employees will expect a higher salary than low skilled employees that eventually become high skilled. You can use this fact to save money by hiring young and training them up.

Before you can hire anyone, you need to put out a search for employees. Start by choosing which role your new employee should be good at.

Start by opening the hire window

In the beginning of the game you will need to make some quick cash. Bring up the Contract window to get some work.

Finally, in the middle left part of the window, you can inspect this employee's compatibility with the rest of their team.

In the bottom right part of the window, you can see what is currently affecting your employee's effectiveness when working. You can use this to see what is wrong if your employees suddenly start working slowly or not at all.

In the bottom left part of the window, you can see the latest thoughts of your employee, this will tell you how happy they are with their place of work, and how effective they are at their job as a consequence. You should inspect this often to see how well an employee is doing and whether you can do anything to improve their satisfaction.

In top left of the window you can see your employee's traits. These traits are controlled by your employee's personality. You can hover over each of the traits to see how they affect the employee.

In middle right part of the window you can see your employee's {H:specializations}, which shows how educated your employee is in different subjects. Specializations control which kind of tasks your employee can complete. The {H:base skill} is your employee's experience in that role, which controls the speed and quality of their work in various situations.

Here you can see the stats of your employee. In top left corner you can see your employee's personality traits, and to the right, your employee's specialization progress in each role. When an employee has filled the progress meter, they will be eligible for education in that role to gain a new star. Clicking a role will also allow you to assign the employee to that role.

With your employee selected, press {KeyBind:ContextMenu} once again to bring up the context menu and select {H:Employee details}, which resembles a single person.

Clicking on a role in the role window will assign the employee exclusively to that role immediately, whereas ticking the checkmarks will allow you to pick several roles for your employee. The second row of checkmarks next to each role is the {H:Secondary} option, in which employees will only work in that role if they have no work in their primary roles. You can also toggle the {H:Any role} checkmark to check or uncheck all roles at once or click {H:Auto role} to assign the employee to the roles that the employee is most proficient at. Note that {H:Leader} can't be chosen unless the employee is assigned to a team and leaders won't work in full capacity in other roles. Close the {H:Select role} window and click {H:Continue} to advance the tutorial.

When you are done, click {H:OK} and then press {KeyBind:ContextMenu} again and click the {H:Change employee role} button instead, which resembles a suit tie.

You can select several employees by holding down shift or ctrl while clicking on their names in the employee window. Now, press {KeyBind:ContextMenu} anywhere to bring up the context menu for the selected employee. Click the {H:Switch team} button to inspect possible team assignments.

When you select an employee in the list, they will be selected in the game and you can get details on their specializations at the bottom of the window. Try selecting an employee now.

This is a list of all your employees, which details their status. You can check any of the options in the top bar to get more details on all your employees.

Begin by opening the employee window.