Student Employment Supervisor Overview

Student Employment Supervisor Overview

As a supervisor, you have many roles to play in developing and guiding student employees to achieve academic and student success simultaneously. Some of the key roles you play as a supervisor are:

• Coaching and mentoring the student so he or she can grow and develop professionally by providing ongoing positive and constructive feedback that creates awareness and results in performance improvement.
• Offering department insights and continually communicating information to guide the student employee.
• Setting semester performance and developmental goals that will strengthen the student contribution as well as increase overall performance for the department.
• Continuously create opportunities for your student to apply classroom learning in hands-on work experiences.

Hiring a Student Employee

This section is a tool for supervisors to easily access the information needed to hire new and returning student employees. One of the Student Employment Office's goals is to provide a “one-stop shop site” option to facilitate your role as supervisor. All on-campus positions for student employees should be filled through positions posted on the Handshake platform. Before being able to view these job postings, your user account needs to be created by a student employment coordinator. For user access, contact studentemployment@utrgv.edu.

Additional steps would need to be taken when hiring a student worker who is under 18 years old. For more information please read Texas Child Labor Law or contact studentemployment@utrgv.edu.

Titles and Salary Rates Used to Hire a Student Employee On-campus

• Work Study (student must complete FAFSA and meet eligibility requirements)
• Direct Wage (non-work study option)

Graduate Assistantships

Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant and Graduate Assistant are three types of assistantships offered to graduate students. Assistantships give graduate students the opportunity to work on campus 20-hour per week and are based on college/institutional demands and funds.

To apply for graduate research assistantships, visit the Graduate College webpage. You should also visit careers.utrgv.edu for additional Graduate Assistantship opportunities.