Student Employment

Campus employment opportunities are posted on the bulletin board in the Administration Building. The average student so employed works 10-12 hours a week.

The Business Office does post off-campus employment opportunities whenever the school is notified of them.

The student shoulders the responsibility to pursue these opportunities.

ON-CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT

Eligibility: Based on need; College Job Program and/or Federal Work-Study.

Application: On-campus jobs are guaranteed to no one. Each department supervisor will interview applicants and manage their own employees.

OFF-CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT
Many businesses in the community have traditionally sought to hire Vennard students. Job opportunities are posted on campus. Students may pursue any of these or seek employment elsewhere in the community.

VENNARD'S "OPEN EMPLOYMENT" POLICY
While we do participate in the federal Work Study program, Vennard does not create jobs for students with financial need, nor do we promise any jobs those who are eligible for Work Study. This means that, of the 30 or so students we employ each year, each one is hired (or fired) at the discretion of his work supervisor. It also means that if a student is interested in working for Vennard during the school year, he/she will need to apply for one of the 30 job openings with the supervisor(s):

Custodial: Don Wheeler
Food Service: Sam Barber
Grounds: Don Wheeler
Library: Davida Sabine
Maintenance: Don Wheeler
Security: Don Wheeler
Student Grill: Sam Barber
Admissions: Larry Olson

As you can imagine, the application and the interview processes can hardly be done long distance and the supervisors usually anticipate needing the first couple weeks to finish all their hiring. An ambitious and good worker (especially one with a good resume) should not have a problem getting hired though I suppose some of the 30 jobs have already been promised to/filled by returning students who performed well last year.

ANTICIPATED INCOME
Whether or not any student qualifies to receive federal Work Study, does not affect that student's pay rate. When a student qualifies, Vennard is able to draw down 75% of his payroll from the Dept. of Education up to that student's eligibility limit. The same Dept. of Ed. also prohibits us from paying higher wages to Work Study students than to other employees.

This brings us to a student's anticipated income. If he/she works
     10 hours/week
for $5.50/hour (common rate, none are less)
for 15 weeks of the 16 week semester,
we usually figure that a student can pay about
      $550 down on his school bill each semester.

80-20 Split
The estimate above represents 80% of the student's net pay, since we split our student employees' paychecks 80-20 when they have a debit balance on their account. In other words, when a student still owes on his school bill we pay the student 20% of his net pay each pay period and apply 80% to his school bill. Obviously, if a student works more or less or decides to apply a portion of his/her 20% to his/her school bill, the $550 figure will be different. That's just what we estimate.

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