{"id":8343,"date":"2018-07-03T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/?page_id=8343"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:17:46","slug":"faq-for-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/faq-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>For general information about Student Employment and our website, please refer to the Q &amp; A below.<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>What are the benefits of getting an on-campus job?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the most important features of getting a job on campus is becoming registered in the Bates employment system. Once you have been work authorized, you can hold any positions on campus, from scoring a rugby game one afternoon to researching with a professor. Once you are offered a job, you can get work authorized. You will need to obtain these <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/i-9-central\/form-i-9-acceptable-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">original documents<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.7533738003112376\">Can I apply for more than one job? What if I am offered multiple jobs? Can I only accept one?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are encouraged to apply for many jobs and are allowed to accept more than one job if you feel you can commit to all of them. Remember, <em>you are only allowed to work a total of 20 hours per week, no matter how many jobs you have<\/em>. If you are offered more than one job and only want to accept one, politely decline the employer\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I forgot to put in hours but still submitted my timesheet.\u00a0 What do I do?<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/timesheet-information-and-instructions\/\">Timesheet Information<\/a> page of the Student Employment Office website. The process for submitting an <a href=\"https:\/\/batescollege.na2.documents.adobe.com\/public\/esignWidget?wid=CBFCIBAA3AAABLblqZhCzTDx1smgMg1IVTFW7KD2naSdJvlmQfti1kyMJRP1fJVAObG7FOBdtloH_0i6cyKQ*\">Adobe Sign Student Timesheet<\/a> is described on that page. Additionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/files\/2021\/08\/Steps-for-the-Adobe-Sign-Timesheet.pdf\">Steps for Adobe Sign Timesheet<\/a> guide provides step by step instructions.<\/p>\n<h3>Still Have Questions? Contact:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:seocord@bates.edu\">SEO Coordinators<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>seo@bates.edu<\/em><br \/>\n(207) 786-6303<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dletourn@bates.edu\"><strong>Dot Letourneau <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Senior Payroll Specialist<\/em><br \/>\n(207) 786-6173<\/p>\n<h3>RESOURCES AND LINKS:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/payroll\/\">Payroll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\">Human Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/career\/\">Center for Purposeful Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/\">Harward Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For general information about Student Employment and our website, please refer to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-8343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8343\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}