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Employing Students On-Campus

How to go about getting student workers
Hiring a student can come through many different ways – general student inquiry, volunteering that leads to employment or advertised help. We encourage you to advertise your available positions on our career services platform, Handshake! All students have access to their Handshake accounts during orientation at the start of their enrollment with Appalachian. Students can leverage this platform to explore internships, part-time and full-time employment, as well as make appointments with career Coaches.

How you can post a student employment job in Handshake
Student Employment staff will assist with the creation of your on-campus employer account. Please contact them at studentemployment@appstate.edu or call 828-262-4099 for assistance.

How to stay connected through Student Employee Supervisor communications
Student Employment frequently sends out email messages to supervisors across campus regarding student employee targeted events, beneficial training materials, details about the Federal Work Study program and annual changes to new-hire onboarding procedures. To access previously posted messages and to receive emails for new messages click here to join the Student Employee Supervisor google group.

How to utilize Federal Work Study funding to employ students
Each year the federal government provides approximately $550,000 in funding to create job opportunities for students that exhibit financial need. In order to request the use of this funding and employ a work study eligible student all advertised positions must be posted on Handshake. Please contact Student Employment at studentemployment@appstate.edu or call 828-262-4099 if you are interested in being a part of the Federal Work Study program. You may also contact them to see if your current student employees qualify for work study.

ALL student employees must complete employment verification at the start of their employment
All employees of Appalachian State University (including student employees) must complete employment verification BEFORE beginning paid training or work. Upon completion of the Student Employment New-Hire Packet please send your new-hire student employees to Student Employment to complete employment verification prior to their start date. Please remind students to bring with them their acceptable documents for employment verification when reporting to Student Employment with their new-hire packet. Scanned, photocopies of these documents are UNACCEPTABLE for processing purposes.

For more information, contact us at studentemployment@appstate.edu or call 828-262-4099. Our team would be glad to help!

Other Resources

To work in the Fall or Spring a student must be registered for at least one course in the semester(s) they plan to work.

To work during the summer a student must be enrolled in at least one summer session

OR

Must have been enrolled in the spring semester and is pre-registered for fall.

To work beyond the last day of finals a student must be enrolled in the next semester.

If your student HAS worked on campus before (within the past year)

Or

  • an EPAF form (only if your department is approved to use EPAF)

HAS NOT worked on campus before (or three years since they have)

If the student doesn’t know if they have worked before call or email us with the student’s name and Banner ID and we will check for you.

Inform New-Hire students that they MUST be authorized by the Office of Student Employment before their first day of work, this includes any training.

After a student presents their Student Employment Forms and completes employment verification with our office they must sign up for direct deposit enrollment on their Appalnet account.

Not sure if the student has worked before? Call or email us with the students name and Banner ID and we will check for you.

For New Supervisors:

  • Student Confidentiality Agreement optional form for your reference if issues arise with work place conduct.
  • Add specific guidelines to this handbook reference to help set expectations for your student workers

  • Download the Student Temporary Employment Authorization Form
  • Fill in all fields and obtain signatures of both the student employee and supervisor. Save a copy for your records.
  • Scan and email a copy of the authorization form to studentemployment@appstate.edu
  • NOTE: If you need to amend/update an existing authorization form (i.e.: changed end date, wage increase, different FOAP code, etc): retrieve your archived copy, cross out the old infomation, write in the new changes. Then indicate which fields you revised on the top of the form, include the date and your initials for departmental documentation then scan and email to studentemployment@appstate.edu for revisions.

The Division of Student Affairs, the Division of Campus Services, University Libraries, and other large departments on the EPAF and within TimeClock Plus may use this Hourly Wage Form ((Please do not use this form if your department is not within the TimeClock Plus payroll system.))

For more information about TimeClock Plus, including an overview video on how to use the system, please visit timeclock.appstate.edu.

A new University Mandate has centralized the I-9 and E-verify process at App State. As of July 1st 2015, the Office of Student Employment, with the support of Human Resources, now conducts the I-9 and E-verify processing of student temps and work study students. Supervisors’ old E-verify accounts will be suspended on this date.

Inform your new student worker that if they have never worked on campus before, they must visit the centralized I-9 site in Plemmons Student Union room 222 prior to the first day of employment.

PLEASE Advise your new hire to bring unexpired, original IDs listed in the I-9 directions (page 9 “Lists of Acceptable Documents”) when they fill out the Student Temporary Authorization with you.

Deadlines
  • Authorization forms or revised authorization forms are due to the Student Employment the business day prior to the close of each pay period window. We must process your students paperwork and submit it to payroll before the time entry window closes for the period in which your student began working (1st -15th of the month or 16th end of the month), so that your student can enter their time into web time entry and the department approver can approve their time.
Delivery
  • Email to studentemployment@appstate.edu or intercampus mail to ASU Box 32032.
  • Incomplete paperwork will be returned with a note describing what is missing or wrong.
Amending Forms
  • If you need to amend/update an existing authorization form (i.e.: changed end date, wage increase, different FOAP code, etc): retrieve your archived copy, cross out the old infomation, write in the new changes. Then indicate which fields you revised on the top of the form, include the date and your initials for departmental documentation then scan and email to studentemployment@appstate.edu for revisions.

The Office of International Education and Development has resources on their website to help an International student with employment regulations, questions, and how to obtain a social security card.

Please have International students contact us to make an appointment for new hire paperwork processing if they have never worked on campus before.

The student must obtain and bring their social security card to the Office of Student Employment by the end of the semester that the student began work.

Please have the international student fill out a NC4 NRA instead of the NC4 or NC4EZ state tax forms.

It is the goal of Appalachian State University and the Office of Student Employment to support all student employees. This may sometimes include supervisors offering verbal coaching, as needed, for successful employment. If management or an area supervisor determines that a student employee is demonstrating unsatisfactory job performance or unacceptable personal conduct concerns, it may become necessary for you to conduct a Documented Coaching and Mentoring Session (discussion) with your student in an effort to get them back on track and to communicate corrective measures. We value students work and appreciate their contributions to their job locations here on-campus. Please contact Student Employment staff with questions or concerns you might have. We are here to support you and your student employees.

Download the Documented Coaching & Mentoring Form Here