How is specialist babby formed?

[Unspeakable Elvis]

Hello, and forgive the archaic meme reference. Can anyone enlighten me about how specialist pops are created? What I see on my planets is that newly grown pops are generally workers; at least, if there are no jobs available, the next pop created is an unemployed worker and not an unemployed specialist. However, somehow when I have specialist jobs available they always seem to get filled up. Now, this is important because on, for example, a tech world I might not want to create workers at all, just specialists. Is a newly created pop randomly assigned? Or is there a default that is later converted or something?

Thanks for any insight!

 

[sillyrobot]

All new pop are workers. Pops "bubble up" if higher strata jobs are available. If a specialist job is open and there are workers in the colony, one will self-promote. Note they go up instantly, but going down takes years. Don't get yourself in a situation where no one is working the mines, generators, and farms.

 

[Designed Ace]

Also, they instain themselves to the empire.

 

[Incompetent]

All new pop are workers. Pops "bubble up" if higher strata jobs are available. If a specialist job is open and there are workers in the colony, one will self-promote. Note they go up instantly, but going down takes years. Don't get yourself in a situation where no one is working the mines, generators, and farms.

I feel like this should have been the cautionary tale about one of the ancient precursors. "They got so into science and education that they trained all their farmers to become researchers and artisans, and then exhausted their stockpile of basic resources. Even as they were starving, these highly-trained professionals refused to go back to the fields until it was too late."

 

[Mastikator]

In the future of Stellaris we will have the technology to instantly learn to perform any profession. So any newly formed pop skips their 9-18 years of education and immediately becomes a worker after birth. This allows anyone to be promoted to any new job instantly too.

Otherwise it would be impossible to move entire populations into new jobs. It's the only logical answer.