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Student Employment Toolkit

First off, we want to thank you for investing your time to better understand student employment and develop yourself as a supervisor. By integrating important career readiness core competencies (in alignment with National Association of Colleges and Employers, NACE), you will be well-equipped to hire, train, supervise and develop your student employees.

Furthermore, we would like to thank the µÛÍõ»áËù Career Readiness Committee and Dr. Chris Marston for their tireless efforts on this project.

This toolkit is designed to both increase your student employment competency as well as provide resources and templates for developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for your own unit around student employment practices . If at any point you would like to meet with the staff in the Center for Career Readiness to workshop topics or troubleshoot anything, please do not hesitate to contact us at career.readiness@unco.edu.

The toolkit is comprised of several templates, which you can use as a starting point to tailor to your specific course content. They are:

1. CCR NACE Competencies and Sample Behaviors
2. Developing Student Employment Learning Outcomes
3. Types of Student Employment
4. How to Hire Student Employees
5. How to Hire Graduate Assistants
6. Rules and Regulations for Hiring International Students
7. Hiring for VA Work Study
8. Using Handshake at µÛÍõ»áËù
9. FERPA and Confidentiality
10. Onboarding/Orientation Guideline/Template
11. Student Employee Payroll Summary
12. Example job descriptions: Career Readiness Student Assistant 
13. Example job descriptions: Libraries Social Media Assistant

Where should I start?

While the toolkit can be utilized in any given order, it is our recommendation that you start by reviewing the CCR NACE Competencies and Sample Behaviors. This will give you a framework with which to start building learning outcomes and position descriptions, going off of nationally-recognized competencies that employers value in college graduates.  Determine which NACE competencies you wish to integrate into student employee learning. That will give you a roadmap from which to work from for the rest of the toolkit.