Hiring

Table of contents

  1. Hiring postdocs
  2. Hiring staff
  3. Hiring student employees
    1. How to hire students
    2. Student job levels and pay scales
    3. More information

Hiring postdocs

information coming soon

Hiring staff

information coming soon

Hiring student employees

applies to master's and undergraduate students

How to hire students

Jobs for students are posted on the Student Employment Website by the Student Employment Management System (SEMS) coordinator (Amy Forsyth) in our department. Amy requests that you send an email to her with the following information so she can post your job to the student employment website.

  1. Which category you want to advertise for, or if you want
    to advertise for both categories
  2. What fund you are going to use for the wages and the
    start/end dates of the job
  3. A title for the job advertisement: RA, Data Entry,
    Lexicographic Assistant, Annotator
  4. A job description
  5. Qualifications needed: specific software, specific
    language fluency, other specific skills
  6. Job Level and the specific pay rate (see scales).
  7. Hours per week. This can no longer be a range. I’d put in
    the max and explain to the student that some weeks might be
    less.
  8. Number of positions available.
  9. Any other instructions: CV’s to
    facultyname@ling.upenn.edu. Will you accept telephone calls
    about the ad? Email only?

After the job is posted, student applicants will send their materials wherever we requested in (9) above. We conduct interviews, request references, and then make an offer to our top candidate.

When a student accepts our offer, we can proceed to our Onboarding protocol.

Student job levels and pay scales

Level I ($7.40 - $7.80)
Entry-level job requiring basic skills attained through on
the job training. No previous work experience or
course work required. Duties are those which may be readily
learned by an individual with limited or no
previous knowledge or experience in the work assignment.
Responsibilities may require knowledge of basic
organizational or technical skills, operation of simple
office equipment or perform routine tasks. Regular
supervision, with little independent decision-making.

Level II ($7.80 - $8.25)
Basic skills acquired through some previous work experience,
training and/or completion of related course
work. Responsibilities may require knowledge of basic
organizational and/or more technical skills, operation and
accountability for more complex equipment or routine tasks.
Some independent decision-making.

Level III ($8.25 - $9.60)
Requires advanced skills. Prior work experience and/or
completion of related course work. Responsibilities
may include data analysis, independent supervision or
coordination of programs and/or projects involving
complex equipment or analysis of data. Often requires the
ability to communicate skills or expertise to others. Can
include regular supervision of other student employees and
limited on site supervision.

Level IV ($9.60 - $13.00)

Highly developed skills, completion of related upper-level
course work or graduate-level course work maybe required.
Responsibilities can include regular independent supervision
and/or coordination of programs and/or projects involving
highly complex equipment, analysis of data. Often requires
the ability to communicate skills or expertise to others.
Regular independent decision-making. The decisions of
students in these positions could directly affect the
operation and success of the project or program. Limited, if
any, supervision.

More information

The following are links to more information about hiring student employees: