{"id":8883,"date":"2019-08-07T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/?page_id=8883"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:05:31","slug":"student-employment-checklist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/student-employment-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Employment Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/files\/2023\/07\/Student-Employment-Flowchart.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/files\/2023\/07\/Student-Employment-Flowchart.pdf\">Student Employment Flowchart<\/a> to assist you in navigating this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Log in to Handshake<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>To log in to <a href=\"https:\/\/bates.joinhandshake.com\/\">Handshake<\/a>, use your Bates email username and password. Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/handshake-information\/\">Handshake Information<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Apply for Jobs<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>All on-campus jobs require a resume and a cover letter as part of their application process. Want help with your resume or cover letter? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/\">Purposeful Work<\/a> and look at their drop-in hours or schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Receive a Job Offer<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Receive a job offer from a supervisor. After you have accepted a position, you can become work authorized. If you have already been through the BWA process, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/bates-work-authorization\/\">send your Bates Work Authorization card<\/a> to your employer and begin working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/bates-work-authorization\/\">Become Work Authorized<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>When it is time for your I-9 in-person document verification appointment, go to the Student Employment Office at 215 College Street, Lewiston, ME. Make sure to bring your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/i-9-central\/form-i-9-acceptable-documents\">original documents, <\/a>know your social security number, bank routing number, and bank account number (this is not your credit\/debit card number).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Receive your Bates Work Authorization<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Find your Bates Work Authorization card on <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.elluciancloud.com\/bc178\/\">Garnet Gateway<\/a> under the Employees section under Student Employee. Send this to your supervisor as soon as you receive it. This is typically a part of the in-person appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Work!!!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the Student Employment Flowchart to assist you in navigating this process.&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-8883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8883\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-employment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}