Undergraduate Students

Contact for help:  pbsci-divisionalhrliaison@ucsc.edu 

Undergraduate students may be employed as " Student Assistant IV".  (On 6/22/2014 the Student Assistant series was consolidated into a single classification)

Current Salary Range for Student Assistant IV (effective 01/01/2023)    Minimum / Maximum Assistant IV      $15.50  to $30.00 

• Students are normally hired at the minimum pay rate of the range for a given classification. However, Human Resource Teams will have the flexibility to recruit above the minimum pay rate.

• If the pay rate exceeds 10% of the minimum pay rate, there must be a justification statement included.

Two systems:

Step 1: HANDSHAKE  (Recruit)

 Handshake is the platform you will utilize to post, advertise, and recruit student employees.

• If this is your first posting- you’ll need to create a new Handshake PBSci supervisor account.  Contact our Divisional Liaison - Isabella Porporato at pbsci-divisionalhrliaison@ucsc.edu  to create and if you have any questions or need help with this process.

*If you know the student(s) you want to hire, have them apply through Handshake.

Step 2: HIRES (Hire)

 (HIRES) is the platform you will utilize to process all casual restricted student employment hiring and onboarding. 

Please contact our STAFF HR Service Representative to activate your account:  Jose Gaona    jbgaona@ucsc.edu and cc:  pbsci-divisionalhrliaison@ucsc.edu 

Note:  Any new “Hire” requests will be approved by our PBSCI SHR Divisional Liaisons.

Step 3: Be prepared to provide Funding Approval:

1. Send an email to your research accountant approving the hire of a student worker. 

• Name of Student (if applicable)

• Start date, end date

• Hours/week

• FOAPAL to charge

2. Your accountant will approve via reply email.