Please note that the sims you want to hire have to be not in the world and also not employed in another job.I made this tutorial very 123 abc step by step so it has 20 Photos to share. Its for simmers just starting out or those that battle to follow instructions without pics. Hope you enjoy it and that it will help you hire your own sims. It comes in 5 parts with 4 photo's each so I don't break slow internet users computers ;)Once you have made your playable sim and she/he bought their restaurant and is at the restaurant then you can follow these stepsStep 1http://i.imgur.com/GdNraB0.pngselect and empty lot and then click on create a new household, that wil take you to CASStep 2http://i.imgur.com/2e3KM6n.pngImport or make your worker sims in CAS and then hit the play buttonStep 3http://i.imgur.com/l3vE0PY.pngConfirm by clicking save and play Step 4http://i.imgur.com/ziZCjrI.pngClick to purchase the home.More steps to follow ........

Step 5http://i.imgur.com/tKvQo54.pngClick on the workers lot and then evict them in the optionsStep 6http://i.imgur.com/y1O49vk.pngConfirm the evictionStep 7http://i.imgur.com/1rmbGwu.pngClick on your sim's restaurant and hit the play button (remember your sim has to be at the restaurant)Step 8http://i.imgur.com/0CeoGpM.pngSelect manage employees More steps to follow

Step 9http://i.imgur.com/eBW4Hbo.pngYou will see all the npc workers there. Step 10http://i.imgur.com/3lkwUiG.pngClick on options and manage worldsStep 11http://i.imgur.com/ASjWMXW.pngSave and go to manage worldsStep 12http://i.imgur.com/j649LHo.pngClick on household managementMore steps to come

Step 13http://i.imgur.com/uPg0Ou2.pngSelect the unplayed households and then click on not in world, you will see the Npc's you just saw at the restaurant.Step 14http://i.imgur.com/ycEkUzY.pngclick on each one and delete them one by one. Please remember to not delete Npc's your sims has an important relationship with.Step 15http://i.imgur.com/uC40eLv.pngYou have to confirm each delete as well, so make sure you are not deleting important Npc's Step 16http://i.imgur.com/1WCpMc5.pngSo now all the potential workers are gone. I have no other Npc's there because I am not fussed about them and did not have relationships with any of them.Hi Simmers a big change has happened with added tab's in an update we had. We now have two tab options. We have My households and Other households, you will need to check and delete both of their Not in world/unplayed sims. Just be super careful, important npc's like Father Winter and the sorts are in there so delete accordingly. Thanks to @J2Trumpet for bringing that to my attention. Below is a pic of what the new tab looks like ;)https://i.imgur.com/qYk2069.pngLast steps to follow

Step 17http://i.imgur.com/NgsJghK.pngClick on played households and make sure your workers are there. You can exit the screen nowStep 18http://i.imgur.com/jeyXi30.pngClick on your sim's restaurant and hit the play button (remember they need to be there)Step 19http://i.imgur.com/lQ7LlcY.pngClick on manage employeesStep 20http://i.imgur.com/6DTWVQL.pngBe happy that you can now employ your own workersEnd of Tutorial, Happy simming everyone :)

Thank you so much for everyone's patience, the Tutorial is now done :)

Tutorial on how to hire your own sims you made, to work in your Restaurant

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mcrudd
Legend
6 years ago
"J2Trumpet;c-17451761" wrote:

Correct. These are sims that are in homes (haven't checked apartments) and have not been played.

And for reference, I have all the expansion packs, some game/stuff packs, and I do use CC.

mmm well I have not played with the restaurants in a while, but I will give it a quick go tomorrow and see what comes up if I do my tutorial, perhaps its a patch that changed things or could be a cc thing since I play vanilla. We will figure it out, sorry you getting all those options and not the ones you want ;) I will see what I can do :)
mcrudd
Legend
6 years ago
@J2Trumpet I have found the change that caused your error in having other households. Its the new dual system we have now, where we have"my households" then "other households" as an option in manage households, you will have to click on the other household tab for not in world now as well, and delete those ones, just be super careful as Father Winter and some other essential npc's are in that category. I deleted the whole lot just to test it and it worked, if I deleted them they did not show up in the manage workers option at the restaurant. I hope this helps you, I will edit that part of my tutorial for future users as well ;) Thanks for letting me know of this change and happy simming :)

https://i.imgur.com/qYk2069.png
StudzKB
6 years ago
"Sweet_Italy;c-14898229" wrote:
Idk if I've gotta bug, but I need 1 more waiter to hire in Bob's Pancake house, and no matter what I do, she won't show up for hire as a waiter, she shows up for chef and host every time, but NEVER for waiter. I've put her in her own household, as played but not in world, as unplayed and not in world, in a larger household as played and not in world, unplayed but not in world.... Deleted all other not in world sims, but the game automatically generates a handful of new unplayed sims to choose from.... Is there a cheat I can use to get her hired? Ive also tried hiring her as a chef then firing her.,.. Ugh, it's infuriating!!!

So the problem with the waiters and waitresses is that the game is made to where they only allow randomly generated sims to work as that position for some reason. My sims only show as options for Chefs and Hostesses not as waitresses. Literally tried everything except fully editing a sim in cas, just because it takes forever to make the sim exactly like the sim I wanted. The game just generates new sims as options for waiters and waitresses .
JConstantinou
5 years ago
Slightly reviving this - is it possible for me to give the created sims the maximum level skill before hiring them? I’ve given them max skills and when I go to hire them it appears to downgrade them for some reason....
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
"JConstantinou;c-17646904" wrote:
Slightly reviving this - is it possible for me to give the created sims the maximum level skill before hiring them? I’ve given them max skills and when I go to hire them it appears to downgrade them for some reason....

No you can't give the actual job skills, but I have found that if a sim is maxed in the cooking skills and mixology, logic and so on then they do tend to level up much quicker with the job skill levels :)

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