Student Employment

Welcome to the Student Employment Office

As part of the Financial Aid Office, the Student Employment Office  is a resource for job-seeking students. It maintains an online jobs database, JobX, accessible to all enrolled Pratt graduate and undergraduate students.  All students have access and can search and apply for jobs, subscribe to JobMail, and post a resume through the site.

The best way for prospective Pratt employers to reach Pratt students is through the jobs database where you can review student resumes, post and manage your job posting, customize a job application, and track student applicants. Pratt employers may request a login and password to gain access to the jobs database. Simply follow the link to JobX.

The Student Employment Office works with faculty and all Pratt departments to create employment opportunities for students. We administer the Federal Work Study Program (FWSP), a federally funded program giving employment opportunities to financially needy students.

Students
Undergraduate and graduate students may apply for employment through Pratt's online employment software. The Student Employment Office located in Dekalb Hall, 1st floor, is pleased to announce the Web services to help employers and students in the job posting and hiring process. With this  tool, students will be able to: 

• Search for jobs using any number of different criteria.
• Receive automated email when preferred jobs become available.
• Review a history of job hiring to get a better understanding of your University's student employment needs.
• Apply for jobs online.
• Complete hiring paperwork.
• Contact the Student Employment Office.

These new services use a Web interface and are designed, like other websites, to be self-explanatory. Additional help on each Web page can be accessed by clicking help icons. The instructions contained in the pdf below will help explain some of the features of the website and how to use them. Please do not hesitate to email any questions to Gloria Harrell, Director of Student Employment, at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

 

America Reads/Counts

At Pratt Institute's Brooklyn Campus, work study and volunteer tutors participating in the America Reads/Counts Challenge are part of a long-standing institutional commitment to community service. Documented outcomes of the program illustrate significant improvement in the literacy and math skills of the children  whom we are tutoring. Our students and neighborhood children are benefiting from this relationship. Pratt Institute is proud to be a part of the America Reads/Counts Challenge.

America Reads/Counts at Pratt is unique because we have over 30 public and private community tutoring sites for our tutors to work in including special needs sites such as hospitals, and nursing homes. Additional special needs partnerships include: St. Francis De Sales School for the Deaf, The Helen Keller School and The Light House school for the visually impaired and the Manhattan school for Autistic children and Hale House. Most sites are in walking distance while others require a short bus or train ride to get there. All tutoring services provided by the Institute through the America Reads/Counts program are free of charge to the community. Students can work one hour per week, or twenty hours per week reading to children and helping them with their homework. Work-study students who speak a language other than English can share the gift of language or sign language with children. International students can volunteer one Saturday per month to share their gift of language with children and receive community service credits at the Pratt outside scholarship workshop. (See outside scholarship work-shop web page). The America Reads/Counts program has over 30 weekly tutoring sites and over 100 children who meet once per month at Pratt Institute to Read, Calculate, learn Sign Language, Foreign Languages, and Braille and perform Reader's Theatre. All tutoring is free of charge to the parents of accepted children. To assist with the Saturday program we have volunteers who read to the children and lend their expertise to the program in the form of motivational speeches, sign language training, Braille training, Author visits, Storytelling, Children's Bookmaking, Puppetry , Costume making, Photography, Vidiography, Animation and professional training sessions run by teachers and professionals from various walks of life. All free of charge.

With this fantastic workforce of Pratt students and volunteers, the America Reads/Counts program at Pratt institute has become one of the leading colleges providing mathematics and literacy services to over 3000 children and their families each year. The program has grown to provide these services to 32 sites in Brooklyn and the metropolitan New York area including sites with special needs.

Family members and early caregivers like Pratt tutors must build a foundation for literacy by talking and reading daily to babies and toddlers. Long before a baby babbles or says a first word she is beginning to develop skills necessary to learn how to talk and read. In addition, caregivers and we must ensure that ALL children enter school ready to read. Learning to read and write is critical for success in school and throughout life. By starting early, we recognize learning to read begins long before a child enters school. Reading to a young child, even before a baby can hold a book, creates an appreciation for what books offer. Parents and caregivers will find that talking, singing, and reading will help their young children be ready for school.

FAQs about the program

How do I qualify?
Open to all students on campus, regardless of major.

• Must be available to work a minimum of 5 hours per week on site (preferably in the morning hours) during club hour (no classes).
• Must be Registered at Pratt institute and have work-study
• Must attend monthly Paid training meetings
• Must submit Bi-weekly Tutor Logs

How am I assigned to a school site?
The Program Coordinator, Peggy Feagin, meets with each prospective tutor to establish the most appropriate site to meet the need of the community, whether they are geographic or age-specific. A list of sites profiles are on file for students to review with Peggy. Though every effort is made to pair tutors with sites they are interested in. Availability of sites is limited due to the large number of applicants for positions. Final site placement is up to the Coordinator. Students who have a year or more service with the program will be given first preference.

How am I paid?
Tutors are paid bi-weekly on Fridays after 10:30 am.

How do I enroll?
Contact Peggy Feagin at : 718-399-4489 Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Meet with a Financial Aid Representative on campus (first floor, Dekalb Hall.) to make sure that you are qualified to receive Federal Work Study funds.
Complete an application and schedule an appointment to meet with the Peggy Feagin. Bring your application to the meeting. If hired, you will be asked to complete additional paperwork.
Volunteers and Language volunteers are also welcome