Employment

Many students obtain part-time academic student employee (ASE) positions such as Special Readers (SR), Teaching Assistants (TA) or Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) with faculty either at FSPH or anywhere on-campus. Students who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better and are appointed to academic apprentice positions for at least 25% time (10 hours a week) while enrolled in a minimum of 12 units are eligible to receive fee remissions. Students may also work as staff (administrative/clerical work as opposed to research and teaching), however staff positions do not incur fee remissions.

Full time graduate students cannot be employed over 50% time as an ASE, staff, or combined, at UCLA without an approved exception request. An overview of requirements and benefits for academic student employment is available for download.   

Finding Employment On-Campus

Job postings or notices for applications are generally very rare as faculty/instructors usually have a student, doctoral or masters, in mind whom they want to approach and offer a position. These students are someone who they know through class or have an established professional relationship. In addition, not all courses would be eligible to hire a TA or Special Reader. It is highly encouraged that students contact faculty directly to establish a professional relationship with them, and inquire about any employment opportunities they may have or know.  

If the SAO receives any information of available opportunities, it will be emailed to you until you get access to  the department Slack, which will be where these opportunities will be posted. Depending on the application deadline, if any, opportunities may also be directly emailed .

The UCLA Graduate Division provides a starting contact list of departments that typically hire SRs and TAs:

• TA Marketplace: UCLA Graduate Division has created this web group to aid graduate students in finding TA opportunities. Departments that need to fill TA vacancies will post job announcements along with required qualifications and application instructions to the group. Available to incoming students starting Fall 2023.

• Academic Year Teaching Assistant, Reader, and Tutor Opportunities

  • Click on the "View TA, Reader, & Tutor Opportunities PDF" button towards the top of the page". Please note that this a listing of the number of anticipated opportunities. The purpose of this list is to serve as a starting point for students to get an idea of how many TAs/SRs a department hires. This is not a job list.

• Academic Year Tutor Opportunities

• Summer Tutor Opportunities

If you have experience or background in an area other than CHS, you are more than welcome to apply or inquire for positions in any department or center on-campus, you are not "locked-in" to CHS to search for employment. For example, typically the unit that hires the most TAs is the Life Sciences. If your undergraduate major was in a life science, it may be a good idea to look out for open TA positions in that department. Available positions from other units on-campus will be included in the CHS Job Listing Site.

Work-Study Program

Federal work-study grants are available to "financially need eligible" graduate students to complete part-time paid internships, community service, research projects, or other endeavors closely related to their academic degree program. Graduate students working on a research project in his/her discipline qualify for funding, as long as the funding source is not federal. Students are required to complete an application participation request before they can be hired as a work-study student. 

The Online Work-study Job Bulletin can be accessed on MyUCLA.

Maximum Earning Limit

Graduate students are held to a maximum earning limit during the academic year and in the summer, while the limit varies by student (single, married, married w/dependents), the averages can be found at UCLA Maximum Earning Limit.

Only stipends and salary from ASE positions are calculated towards the earning limit. Loans, fellowships directly allocated to tuition, fee remissions, and salary from staff positions are not included in the calculation. If you hold multiple fellowships with stipends and have an ASE position at a high %-time, please come see the SAO to make sure you will not exceed your earning limit and if an exception request may be appropriate.

Reaching the limit will result in a stipend or %-time reduction to stay within the limit.

Career Preparation

• FSPH Career Development provides individual career counseling, on-campus recruiting, workshops, employer presentations, mock interviews, career fairs, and online job postings.

• Download and complete the Career Preparation Toolkit to develop strategies and evaluate options as you pursue your goals.

• The UCLA Career Hub provides events, opportunities, and workshops for professional development.

Additional resources are also available on the Masters Only and Doctoral Only sites accessed through the Department website. Information on how to login will be sent in late Summer.