Summer Student Employment

Summer oftentimes presents an opportunity for students to work more hours, complete an internship, or become involved in important projects at their work place. Unfortunately, as is the case for many items, there figures to continue to be significant interruptions to our student’s employment experiences throughout summer. Still effective, there remains reduced hiring across campus for UW–Madison jobs – with only exceptions from Dean or Vice Chancellors being permitted to be posted. We are still actively posting for opportunities within the Madison area, although both UW–Madison & local student job opportunities have slowed to a trickle. Still, there do remain over 120 current jobs, offering hundreds of student opportunities. In addition to the hiring provisions & job market, our team has also worked hard to provide income continuation. UW–Madison has received national recognition for our efforts to provide income support to student employees from the middle of March through April – and for our Federal Work-study population, through May 23^rd. This was necessary to provide immediate support for students, however, as we transition to summer we do not anticipate additional funding support in this way. It will be more important now, as a result, that we continue to offer flexible remote work opportunities for students and encourage students unable to work to utilize studentjobs.wisc.edu to find new opportunities. While much of summer is likely to be impacted, we do anticipate a quick shift in the immediate UW–Madison student employment job market as a decision on fall is made. Typically, thousands of students are hired prior to summer to fulfill roles for the fall term. Since much of that was placed on hold, there is likely to be a high need of students to fill now vacated positions (via graduation or otherwise) to return to normal operations – whenever that should occur. We are also offering Federal Work-Study within summer financial aid packages, in hopes those students can be at an advantage in navigating the challenging job market. Patience may be key, especially for our incoming students, as it relates to employment opportunities at UW–Madison and the ultimate hopeful recovery of the Dane County part-time employment landscape. Lastly, if you are supporting student employees in remote work this summer, we do also have some helpful success resources that have been made available remotely. While many of these resources are geared towards supporting our students, we’ve also begun to create virtual workshops, which include topics such as communication, self-exploration, and well-being. They are great resources to assign student employees to support professional & workplace development/skills. If you have any other questions, or items our team can support related to Student Employment, please do not hesitate to reach out: student.employment@finaid.wisc.edu.