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You should strive to maintain at least 4% unemployment at all times, meaning try not to fall under 4%, but higher is fine. The other very useful tool, is the Population View, as it gives you the actual unemployment percentage and this should be considered the ultimate authority:

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The worst state is the full green bar because then your commerce and industry is screaming for more employees to occupy vacant job slots. Basically zone more residential, and less of the other zones, than you normally would. It really is that simple! Just use up the residential demand more aggressively than the commercial and industrial/office demand. Educating everyone will make life easier for you. Graduates are completely flexible and can perform any job, in contrast the uneducated cim is entirely inflexible and can only perform uneducated jobs.

I am making this point right here, because some players like to maintain an uneducated work force but really this only makes things harder and introduces another source of possible problems. Highly educated cims are happy to take demeaning jobs

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Cims can upgrade from a poor job to a better job, but don't seem to be allowed to quit a bad job and become unemployed. Graduates are perfectly 'happy' working at the local pig farm or lumberyard, oh sure, they'll drag their feet and try to find a nicer job first, but they will take menial jobs and they will stick with them for their entire life if they have to. On the other hand an educated cim can fill any job slot at or below his education level. An uneducated cim is simply incapable of ever filling a job slot above his education level. In Skylines, there is no such thing as workplace experience. So it is possible that a building will get 'not enough workers' because while there are enough unemployed workers in the city, there are not enough unemployed educated workers to fill the educated slots. Actually this can happen with high density commercial, industry and office too, but the very modest service requirements for low density commercial makes it more obvious. You may have noticed that if you provide low density commercial with a lot of services early in the game, it ran rapidly level up to lvl3 and then find itself unable to find educated workers and proceed to abandon.