New Corporations

Hello,

I'm new to the game and trying to figure out employment and starting new corporations. I've ramped up education but high tech engineers is static at about 9k unemployed, production is limited with all corps at 90% employment and I can't open any new corporations.

Education index is around 90, and I'm graduating about 5K HTE a month but none are making it into the employment figs. Tons of low skill workers. What's going on here?

Questions:

What can I do to quickly ramp up these numbers?
Is the best way to find trading partners for worker exchange to join a common market?
Are there any drawbacks to joining a common market early in the game?

Thanks!!

I'll skip over the common market thing and just say that some people really enjoy them. Hopefully, someone will explain why. I think they are maybe more valuable for free players, is the reason.

As for your HTE issue, it is a relatively common question that we answer around here. I recommend trying to skim through old posts here, also there is a search feature. You may find info faster that way as this isn't a very social game right now. Let's change that guys.

So the reason your only seeing 9000 unemployed HTE is because you have a shortage of HTE. Those 9000 you see are the newly available ones from your education system, and from promotions. They are all hired each month because you don't have enough, for any to be unemployed. Unemployed are the excess you don't need, or cannot employ due to the lack of HTE.

So you need to look at the row labeled something like "workers needed for full employment"

Thanks for the really great response, makes sense.

I solved this over the weekend by simply taking over an AI country and transfering a load of HTE over. Once I had a few more corps up and running I was able to ramp up education and the problem was solved!

Now to figure out the rest of this crazy game!