Alt city...

[DatOneGuy]

Give a guy who knows what he's doing the right jobs and he'll get more done for your village than a guy with 'skills/stats' can in 10x the time.

Lumber, tanning, smelting (minus mining), digging resources, paving, grassing, building.

Lumber? A proper setup can haul in 400 logs a day no problem lickity split just need the wine for it, and with a courier alt (4 days of setup[shew], can do it in 2 if you use straw dolls or something instead) it's even faster/easier, and wine-free.

Tanning? Anyone can do it, and the leather is very welcome I'm sure to any newer village, getting everyone equipped with t-sacks and then later on with HQ leather, requires no skills on the part of the character, only time and will.

Smelting? Just need to know what you're doing and have good infrastructure, perfect job for someone on an alt.
Digging resources? No need for anything besides vand (if stolen), or nothing if belonging to you.

Paving, grassing, alt stuff.

Building? Cheese racks, cupboards, houses, troughs, there are a lot of things that need to be made in bulk, they can be doing these things.

Milking cows? Another very easy job, pretty much everything cheese can be done by a character a few hours old or so in a new village.

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Honestly if you have a proper infrastructure and nice resources (foraging) you can expect new guys to be up to speed fairly quickly.

[brohammed]

Curios definitely help vilalges recruit new guys though, compared to the old system. If only there were some curios specifically designed towards raising newbie to village level, although I don't know how that could possibly be balanced to stop it being even more useful for making alts

[Tonkyhonk]

I guess it really boils down to trust. And hoping all goes well in the end...

^this and

Give a guy who knows what he's doing the right jobs and he'll get more done for your village than a guy with 'skills/stats' can in 10x the time.

^this

but do NOT forget the downside...you should really be always alert too.
most of the trustworthy experienced players are usually taken, and decent villages wont let them go so easily.

[DatOneGuy]

Curios definitely help villages recruit new guys though, compared to the old system. If only there were some curios specifically designed towards raising newbie to village level, although I don't know how that could possibly be balanced to stop it being even more useful for making alts

Straw Dolls and the like are great, in 24hours~4days between a good deal of curios you'll have a nice character. All you need is a single good merc robe to toss on them the first time as they put on their curios, if they are a new person and you don't trust them, keep them in combat while they do so (good idea in general while lending something to someone you can't guarantee to get back if they log off).

Honestly a q90~ merc robe lets me get enough on my alts to toss shewbread, straw dolls, and some other neat little curios that are medium-term.

I'm sure if you could get shewbread+bronze steed + seer's tealeaves + seer's bowl on an alt you'd be in heaven, you could also go for a very short term goal of ants, cone cows, straw dolls, etc.