1. Post-Doctoral Trainee Senior Professional Research Staff Staff
Need Help? How to Hire, Appoint, and Pay People.
Want to hire the right people quickly and easily? Below is a matrix of all the employee types , including contractual (non-employment) options. Please contact your Curry HR Associate to initiate a hire and to answer any questions that you may have!
Faculty
Post-Doctoral Trainee
Senior Professional Research Staff
Staff
Students
Contractual Relationships
Salaried
Post-Doctoral Research Associates
Hourly or Graduate Assistantships
Honoraria
Posted 22 to 30 days before candidates may be selected for interview. Searches typically run 2 to 6 months depending on how fast the search committee works.
Posted 10 days before candidates may be selected for interview. Searches typically run 1 to 2 months depending on hiring official.
Posted 22 to 30 days before candidates selected. Searches typically run 2 to 6 months depending on how fast the search committee works.
Posted for 5 days internally or 10 days externally before candidates selected for interview. Offers can be extended within 2 business days of search completion.
Once hire identified, two weeks for a rehire; four weeks for a new hire. We strive to do all within two weeks, but timing depends upon student responsiveness.
Request to department fiscal contact one month prior to engagement. Its best to have the check waiting for the person.
Wage (instructional and instructional related only)
Post-Doctoral Fellows (on stipend)
Wage
Consultant
Posted 10 days before candidates selected for interview. All Curry Academic Departments have standing wage postings.
Posted 10 days before candidates may be selected for interview. Searches typically run 1 to 2 months depending on PI.
Posted for 5 days internally or 10 days externally before candidates selected for interview. Offers can be extended within 48 hours of search completion.
Please consult your department or center administrator and Curry HR professional as soon as you are aware of the need for a consultant.
Visiting/Non-Paid Appointments
Temp Services
One month notice for U.S. Citizens. At least 6 months and preferably 12 months notice for foreign nationals.
One month in advance of start date for new hires.

2. Good Information to Know about Hiring Students:
No students are to begin employment without completion of the mandatory Federal I-9 process with their Curry HR contact.
To be employed as a student during the academic year a student must be enrolled full-time, which is 12 credit hours.
Student employment is limited to 20 hours per week. The student's advisor and the Academic Dean in the school (Catherine Brighton here in Curry) may approve an exception to this please see your Curry HR contact for the exemption form. The student’s academic progress toward degree is most important.
Students on visas typically may NOT work in excess of 20 hours period. Please be mindful of this as penalties can include deportation.
Students may work more than 20 hours during the summer as long as they were enrolled as a full-time student in the previous spring and intend to enroll as a full-time student in the Fall. Students who graduate may maintain their student employment status until the start of the Fall student payroll which is generally the second week in August.
Doctoral and masters students working on grants are to be paid as GRAs on goal pay unless the work is sporadic or short term (weeks or a month or two. A semester is not short term).
Work Study is for hourly wage student employees only.
A stipend, also known as a fellowship, is NOT employment.
Student Employment Categories:
Student Assistantships on Goal Pay (lump sum payments without timecards)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) - GTAs have instructional assignments in classrooms or laboratories. In general, GTAs have responsibility for a range of activities that include:
leading lecture and classroom activities connected with a single section of a multi-section course that is under the general supervision of a faculty member;
leading discussion sections or problem sessions associated with courses that are taught by a member of the regular faculty;
leading laboratory sections under the general supervision of a regular faculty member who has responsibility for the course.
Other duties can include holding office hours, grading tests and other assignments, and responding to student questions in person and electronically. GTAs are expected to prepare sufficiently for each class or lab. In addition, all GTAs, per the accreditation requirements for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), are expected to:
have a master’s degree or 18 graduate credit hours in the discipline they are teaching;
receive direct supervision from a faculty member experienced in the teaching discipline;
participate in regular in-service training; and undergo planned and periodic evaluations. (see policy for possible exceptions)
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) - GRAs conduct academically significant research related to their academic program and their development as future researchers, with a minimum of supervision, under the guidance of a faculty member. Graduate students hired on an hourly basis to conduct short-term research, organize conferences, or provide other types of academic support are not graduate research assistants and are not eligible for tuition remission.
Hourly Wage on Timecards:
Hourly Wage and Hourly Wage Work Study - Undergraduate Student Workers are paid to work in support of the academic programs: paper and exam grading, assisting in the laboratory or library, etc. Graduate Student Workers provide similar academic program support (except laboratory - GRA or
classroom instruction - GTA) . Note that work study is hourly wage except that 70% of the wage is covered by federal work study funds and 30% is covered by the employing organization. As supervisor, you are responsible to approving accurate time cards.
Student wage employment is governed by the Provost Office. The two policies that apply to student employment are:
Wage Authorization
Graduate Assistants