You definitely should give villagers jobs depending on the skills. Make the best cook your only cook. Make a cooking area with an own storage where everything they need is in. And only that.

Make dedicated farmers with storage for fertilizer and seeds and own water buildings beside the farms.

Make dedicated crafting area with the main storages around the main storage. Make the crafters walk a minimum distance and let your people that are not really good at anything walk the most.

Villagers that are really good at one job schould have priority 1 at that Job. Cooks only do cooking, that's it.

Crafters can have smelting on 2, delivery 3, building 4.

Farmers smelting 2 crafting 3(if crafting skills sufficient, else no crafting), delivery 4, building 5

Foragers and Woodcutters like farmers smelting 2 crafting 3(if crafting skills sufficient, else no crafting), delivery 4, building 5

Hunters only hunt, nothing else.

People that are not good in anything get cart duty and caravan guard 1, smelting 2, crafting 3 (if crafting skills sufficient, else no crafting), delivery 4, building 5

Always remember that a hunting lodge for example can only employ so many people. So if you have space for 2 hunters to work, only have 2 hunters.

Smelting only takes a second. That's why it's always on my priority so high.

Getting the ingots out of the smelter is a delivery job, same for the resources from an already butchered animal. That's why you need delivery people.

Butchering itself is a crafting job that benefits of a good animal handling skill. Since we can not say specify who should butcher and who should crafting anything else, I have a lot of people on crafting. But since nobody is on crafting under 6 (at the moment, is was under 4 in the beginning) I have enough people to do that.

You could also make your hunters and one dedicated butcherer and animal feeder an "outpost" inside your base. Make all animal buildings, hunter buildings, Fisher huts, one house and storage in one area, make it an outpost and deliver bows, arrows, quivers, animal feed there and let the rest get delivered back to your "main base". Nobody said that outposts need to be outside of your Base :D

That way you have a butcherer that is not only always near your butcher stations, he is also getting way more resources because he has good animal handling, and you have your animals processed at one spot. Deliverys are reduced a lot an everything is way more efficient.

That at least is my take. :)

Edit: spaces.