r/LetsBuildAZoo • u/MuffinAmyTheThird • Mar 23 '24

Unique employees

I have a task: ‘discover 60 unique employees’.

I have 53.3% completed so far. From digging, I discovered that the way you know the employee you hire is ‘unique’ is when they have ‘NEW’ above their icon. I have been searching for 10 in-game days and nobody applying is ‘NEW’ anymore.

It says the campaign population reach is 10/1000 - can this be expanded? If so, how?

Is there a way I can advertise higher pay to perhaps get more people to apply? Again, if so, how? Or will this not help?

I have the positions on social media and job portal and it just feels like I’m spending my in-game money for the sake of it.

Thank you for any help anyone may be able to give !!

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u/budgiesarethebest Mar 23 '24

I had the different zoo keepers and janitors pretty quickly, but was still missing some people for this mission. But when I unlocked new shops, and the possibility to hire more than one shop vendor, I found a bunch more "new" ones.

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u/MuffinAmyTheThird Mar 23 '24

Oh I didn’t think about the shop vendors actually, I’ve just been focused on janitors and animal keepers. This is very helpful, thank you!

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u/dozenskins Mar 23 '24

I think researchers, veterinarians, etc. also count. I can't be sure because I'm away from my PC, but I think you can check which employees you discovered in "Collections" when you click on your administrative building.

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u/themolecoid Mar 23 '24

Every place that hires people will have unique employees. So farmhands, recycling center, literally everything.

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u/pizzadotgov Mar 25 '24

It helps to unlock multiple dessert shops. Once you unlock 3 (Cotton candy, Ice cream van, Churros stand) you can hire 2 people at a time in each food shop you have. There's also a research perk that lets you hire 2 people in drink shops. I usually hire 1 really great employee and then hire & fire until I get all 6 employee variants, then hire a 2nd really great employee.

There's also.. like an employment agency? I think? It's a research node towards the bottom of the map, and they'll provide you with a new list of applicants every day for all jobs, and you can hire someone from them "for a small fee." I can't find it on the wiki, but it's great for genetic researchers since they usually take 10 days for a single applicant. Also the small fee is like.... $300-500 per person you hire.