Employing Students & Recent Graduates for Campus Jobs
New I-9 Available
The federal government has unveiled a new, condensed federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form, which supervisors should be using if they complete the I-9 form with their student employee. Click here for the new form. This is only for new hires to the university. Send completed I-9 forms with color copies of the appropriate forms of ID to Talent Acquisition Coordinator Maya Speed (mjspeed@butler.edu; 317.940.9452).
Important Update
We have automated much of the new hire student employment paperwork. Please direct new student hires to the University to the On-Campus Student Employment webpage and have them follow the instructions under “New Hire Paperwork Packet.” There they will complete the New Hire DocuSign Student Powerform. More details are below.
Talent Acquisition Coordinator Maya Speed (mjspeed@butler.edu; 317.940.9452) is collecting all new hire paperwork as well as processing I-9 federal employment verifications for students. Maya is located in Jordan Hall, Room 052 (basement of Jordan Hall). Students who need to show their original, unexpired identification documents, should schedule an appointment with her on either Handshake or Outlook.
Digital Paperwork
In an effort to streamline the hiring of student workers new to University employment as well as reduce paper costs, we are utilizing a digital-first process. If at all possible, please encourage your student hires to electronically complete this paperwork.
Supervisors should direct Student Hires to complete online their H.R. policy acknowledgement form and federal W-4 and state WH-4. For the final piece of New Hire paperwork – the I-9 Federal Employment Eligibility Verification – we are reverting the pre-pandemic practice of Supervisors completing the I-9 for first-time University hires. Supervisors are welcome to refer any of the more complicated I-9 forms (for Non-Citizens, Permanent Residents, or Authorized Aliens) to Student Employment Coordinator Lorraine Vavul in Human Resources. The completed I-9 along with the accompanying color copies of the student’s I.D. can then be sent via inter department campus mail to the attention of Maya Speed in HR (Jordan 184C). Instructions can be found further below under “New Hires.”
Remember: federal law requires all documents to be submitted before your student employee begins working. Training is considered employment.
Overview of Student Hiring
There are 3 steps when hiring students for on-campus work. If you already have identified the student(s) you wish to hire, skip to step 3:
- Create or update the position – Formstack forms
- Promote the position and collect applications
- Hiring the student (submitting student’s eHire, & only if needed, completing I-9 paperwork page 2).
1. Create or Update the Position
If you’re unsure from which budget your student wages should be pulled—the “account (department ID)/combo” numbers—please contact the budget manager in your department or office.
New Positions (New Position Qualtrics Form)
If the position you’re hiring for is brand new and doesn’t yet exist, please complete the New Position Qualtrics form. You’ll receive a four-digit Position Number from Human Resources within 1-2 business days. Please contact askhr@butler.edu if you encounter any problems.
Update Existing Positions (Status Change Qualtrics Form)
To update pay rate, primary supervisor, account (department ID)/combo numbers, job title, and/or backup time approver, please complete the Status Change Qualtrics Form. If needed, read the View student compensation/hourly pay rates and past work information guide. Please contact askhr@butler.edu if you encounter any problems.
2. Promote the Position & Collect Applications on Handshake
We encourage supervisors to post the opportunity on Butler’s online job board Handshake. If you or your office don’t yet have a free Handshake account, please email CaPS to get set up. If you run into any problems posting, please check out Handshake’s how to guide for posting jobs or email our office at: career@butler.edu. If students applied to your position through Handshake, check out Handshake’s guide for accessing applications.
3. Hiring the Student
Once you have selected a student you would like to hire and are ready to send them a tentative offer, first determine if they’re an “Existing Hire” or a “New Hire”: How to Determine if student is New Hire or Existing Hire. If applicable, follow the instructions in the “Funding Student Wages with a Grant” drop-down at the bottom of this webpage.
Existing Hires
Students who currently have an on-campus position or have held one before are considered “Existing Hires” and paperwork is not needed. In these cases, you need only complete the eHire form in my.butler.
New Hires
Students who don’t currently have an on-campus position or have never had one are considered “New Hires” and new hire paperwork is needed in addition to you completing the eHire form in my.butler. The new hire must complete all paperwork before they can begin their position.
Note: before completing any paperwork, international students new to working at Butler should first visit the International Student Services employment webpage, download the Employment Authorization Form, and see Bobbie Gibson in Jordan Hall 133.
Paperwork steps for students to complete:
- Your student employee will first digitally complete the New Hire DocuSign Student Powerform found under the New Hire Paperwork Packet on the On-Campus Student Employment webpage. The documents digitally included in the DocuSign Powerform include the HR policy acknowledgment form, federal W-4, state WH-4 and Section 1 of the I-9 Federal Verification form. Once completed, these forms automatically go to On-Campus Student Employment Office.
- The student should then schedule an appointment with either their supervisor or Maya Speed (instructions for that are on the On-Campus Student Employment webpage) to complete Section 2 (page 2) of the I-9. For that meeting, the student will need to bring valid, unexpired, original ID(s). No photocopies or pictures are allowed due to federal employment laws and Butler’s liability risks. Eligible identification documents can be found on page 3 of the I-9. Note: The requirements are one item from List A (most generally a passport or passport card) OR a combination of one item from List B (generally a drivers license or student ID) and one item from List C (generally a social security card or birth certificate). All ID(s) requiring signatures (e.g., passports and social security cards) must be signed.
- Supervisors or Maya Speed will complete Section 2 of the I-9 form and send Section 2 with color copies of the ID(s) you’ve referenced and attested to seeing on page 2 through inter departmental campus mail directly to Human Resources (JH 184C). Here is a cheat sheet with what to complete on the I-9.
- When completing Section 2 of the I-9 form, please follow these guidelines:
- meet with the student to look at their ID documents in person (which must be unexpired originals)
- make sure that any document with a “signature” line contains the student’s signature (e.g., U.S. passport on the page opposing their picture and name, social security card)
- make sure that the social security card is not laminated (if it is, it’s ineligible)
- complete Section 2 of the I-9 while looking at the ID documents using a blue or black ink pen (no pencils)
- make color photocopies of the front and back of all ID documents (for passports, both the student’s picture page and opposing, andpage 28 and opposing)
- sign Section 2 of the I-9
- send the I-9 form and ID color photocopies through inter department campus mail or bring them directly to Human Resources yourself (JH 184C); as with grade change forms, the hiring documents cannot be handled or delivered by the student)
- download the full list of acceptable documents or visit the federal site’s list of acceptable documents
How to Fill Out eHire
Read the How To Fill Out eHire guide. If needed, read the Check the Status of Students Submitted in eHire guide.
Grant funded student employees: you will not need to enter the student in eHire. Scroll down to the “Funding Student Wages with a Grant” dropdown section below for instructions.
4. Evaluating the Student
For resources on evaluating your student employee, please check out Human Resources’ “Performance Management” supervisor tools.
Forms and Guides
Video Walkthrough
Note: this video walks through the hiring process and features former Student Employment Coordinator Alyssa Laskowski. Student Employment now resides in the H.R. office under Lorraine Vavul. Please direct all questions to Lorraine at LVavul@Butler.edu or 317.940.JOBS (5627).
Supervisor Guides
- How do I communicate to a New Hire what they need to do? (offer letter template and email template)
- How do I hire a student in eHire (position number, budget codes, etc.)?
Additional Info
It’s not required that you post a position on the University-wide Handshake job board. However, please keep in mind the principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Consider promoting to and hiring every Butler student qualified for a position, which often necessitates reaching beyond the group of students you see on a day-to-day basis (e.g., in your department/office, or on class rosters for any given semester). Many students are in the process of declaring majors/minors and may not yet be on your lists.
- Part of the I-9 completion process requires that student employees present acceptable identification documents to you as their supervisor. You then complete page 2 of the I-9 form with the presented documents. Download the full list of acceptable documents or visit the federal site’s list of acceptable documents.
- Documents must be unexpired originals, no photos or copies are allowed. Completing page 2 of the I-9 by looking at photocopies and/or scanned images is not acceptable per federal law. Page 3 of the I-9 explains document types, also showing which list (A, B or C) each document must be entered.
Butler’s online employment portal Handshake is the primary place students are instructed to look for on-campus jobs.
Getting Started
- If you or your office don’t yet have a free Handshake account, please email CaPS to get set up. If you run into any hiccups posting, please check out Handshake’s how to guide for posting jobs or email our office at: career@butler.edu
Special Tips
- When posting a job in Handshake, please be sure to select the “Email a summary of all applicants once my job expires” and “Email every time a new student applies” options. Notification emails will automatically be sent to the posting’s contact.
- Log into Handshake regularly to check applications. Read Handshake’s How To guide on viewing and accessing applicants’ materials.
- The following guide explains how to input and approve time for student employees in my.butler: Approve Hours Guide for Supervisors.
- How does a student log hours in my.butler? Screenshot Guide
- When are student employees paid? Payroll Schedule
- How does a student set up direct deposit? Students are strongly encouraged to enroll in direct deposit. Students can view how to enroll on our student employment website.
- What is the hourly pay rate? All students get paid by the hour (stipends are NOT permitted). The amount they can be paid is determined usually by each individual department. Student pay rates can vary for a variety of reasons (department budgets, work load, assigned hours per week, etc.) but typically the average hourly pay rate is somewhere between $8.00 – $11.00. The legal minimum wage in Indiana is $7.25 per hour.
- If you wish to give your student employees raises or increase hourly pay, you must submit a Status Change Formstack form (above) to HR.
- You may refer students you wish to hire to our on-campus student employment page.
- If your students are not sure how to complete their tax forms, please share with them our New Hire Paperwork: Cheat Sheet. They will complete all areas noted in red.
- You can enter your student employee’s work hours on their behalf. Please download a guide to enter your student employee’s hours.
- However ,we strongly encourage you, as the supervisor, to be sure your student employees are filling in their own timesheets.
Please review the required steps via our Guide for Hiring International Students.
- As stated in the guide, supervisors are required to submit a letter of employment for international students. You can view the letter template here.
- International students can only work on campus jobs (not off campus) and cannot exceed 20 hours per week
- International students must apply for a social security (SS) card OR already have a SS card in order to start work on campus:
- Start dates for international students may be delayed as theire are several steps that must be completed first.
- When completing paperwork, HR will accept a ‘SS card receipt’ in order for the student to be hired and start working.
- However, when the student receives their actual SS card, they must present the card immediately to HR or The Student Employment Coordinator.
For additional guidance on International Student resources, please feel free to contact Bobbie Gibson in the International Student Services office (bgibson@butler.edu).
- Students can work up to 37.5 hours during the summer. However if the students will be working full-time, they may become eligible for ACA benefits. In that event someone from the benefits team will contact them. This may also change their tax bracket since they will be making more. If students have any questions regarding that, please contact the Payroll Office or the HR office (askhr@butler.edu).
- To avoid going full-time, most on campus departments have students work part-time (somewhere in between 20-30 hours a week) during the summer, depending on the work load and students availability.
- The student employment process for hiring student employees over the summer remains the same as it does during the academic year, other than the scheduled work hours per week. Students must still complete New Hire paperwork (only if needed), and supervisors still must submit the eHire form for their student employee(s).
- Federal work study (FWS) students can work in any department/office on campus, and the hiring of FWS eligible students is no different than hiring any other student employee.
- There is no budget-relief for on-campus academic departments who hire FWS students.
- However, if you are a supervisor in any of the following on campus centers, then both the student and supervisor should contact Student Employment Coordinator Lorraine Phillips Vavul (LVavul@butler.edu) for next steps:
- Butler Center for the Arts (Schrott & Clowes)
- Butler CUE
- Center for Faith & Vocation
- Center for Citzenship & Community
- Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra
- Indianapolis Childrens Choir
- Indianapolis Symphonic Choir
- For the student there are certain things they need to know about how working on campus affects their FASFA and eligibility for FWS for the next academic year.
- If you get any FWS student questions, please refer them to this site: FWS Students or have them contact Butler’s Financial Aid office directly.
- If your office or department partners with local non-profits in Indiana who would like to hire FWS students, please refer them to our FWS Community Service Partners webpage.
- Once a Butler student graduates from the University and is not enrolled in classes, they’re no longer considered a “student employee” and cannot be hired through eHire.
- If you wish to hire (or keep) a current student in their role beyond commencement, they will need to be hired as “staff” through the PageUp system.
- All staff positions are entered into PageUp and must go through the staff hiring process, including a background check. In addition, recent graduates may need to visit the Human Resources office in JH 037 to ensure that all hiring paperwork is up-to-date and completed correctly per federal and state employment laws and policies, including their I-9 paperwork and identification scans. (Homeland Security and the IRS only allowed Butler a few allowances in remote verification of I-9 documents for students hired in eHire. Please contact HR with any questions about how this process might be different both in PageUp and as the pandemic ends.)
- Access your PageUp Hiring “Manager Dashboard” through Human Resources. Please contact HR with any questions at askhr@butler.edu
- If the position is to be funded through an internal/external grant, you’ll need to complete the Grant-Funded Student Employment Form and email it to OSP@butler.edu.
- Once the form makes its way around campus and all required signatures are collected, HR will then enter the student’s job information into eHire for the supervisor. If you have any questions, please contact askhr@butler.edu.
- Grant funded forms cannot be entered by the department or supervisor into eHire. It has to be done by HR.
*Note on the form where it asks if a student has or has not worked on campus. If they have not, the student must download, complete, and follow the submission instructions for the New Hire Paperwork Packet.
- When it’s time to remove a student employee (i.e., they’ve left the position, been removed from the position, or it’s the end of the fiscal year), please read how to terminate a student employee in my.butler.