Well, some times ago, there was a search bar at staff overview for search by name, like we have it at vehicles… But it looks as if devs are just a little bit loosing their track, recently… Another remove of a useful feature for incomprehensible reasons… Hopefully we don’t end up with a bad substitute as we did with airplane-size-percentage-bar …
I think there is no other way, as you already did…
in general it is exactly the same strange, irrational (and imho buggy) job assigning and staff behavior as already mentioned before several times
some discussion-links
Airport CEO Alpha 34 released (The R&D Update) - #191 by sirhc80
Extremely weird staff behaviour (incl. pic series) - #7 by sirhc80
Airport CEO Alpha 34 released (The R&D Update) - #150 by sirhc80
Once again: pathfinding - #7 by sirhc80
Ramp Agents & Remote Stands Bug - #4 by sirhc80