Student Employment

What is Federal Work-Study (FWS) - FWS is a need-based financial aid award that assist students with meeting their educational expenses while allowing students to gain meaningful work experience. FWS has excellent incentives: not only will students gain work experience but the wages from FWS can be reported as "need-based" wages when completing the Free Application for Federal Aid (FAFSA). Other employment opportunities are available for those who do not qualify for FWS but would like to secure employment.
Students - Search for a Student Employment Job

Current UIS students have been automatically registered for UIS CareerConnect. Any student who has submitted a "Request to Prevent Disclosure of Directory Information" form with Records and Registration has not been registered for UIS Career Connect. These students will need to manually register within CareerConnect.

Employers - Hiring Procedures / How to Post a Student Employment Job

All departments wishing to hire student employees will no longer be required to complete an RPS form, you will need to register with CareerConnect to post your position.

Using CareerConnect departments will post current and new positions. All employment positions must be posted for at least 3 days and at least 3 candidates must be interviewed before anyone can be hired. This allows everyone an equal opportunity to apply for positions. CareerConnect will collect all resumes for student positions and require at least three interviews to be scheduled for each posting prior to hiring.

Student employment positions are required by state law to pay at least $8.00 per hour beginning July 1, 2009.

Contact Information

The Student Employment Office is located in the Office of Financial Assistance in University Hall, Room 1030. The phone number is (217) 206-6724.

 

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