The Supervisor Toolkit is designed to provide guidance, tools, and resources for many of the human resource issues you are involved with on a daily basis. If you have questions regarding information provided in the Toolkit, please contact Human Resources at 979-845-2423.

 

Recruiting Resources

Recruiting and Hiring Veterans| Titles and Pay Rates | Rules and Procedures

Military Preference

Recruiting and Hiring Veterans

• Military Preference Resources
• What does military preference mean in the recruitment process?

• Where do I go to recruit veterans?

  More than 3,400 One-Stop Career Centers nationally offer employers assistance connecting with and recruiting veterans.

  • Hiring Veterans
    • Military Skills to Civilian Careers Translator shows which military skills and experience are the closest match for a variety of civilian occupations.
    • Opportunity to partner with the U.S. Army to provide quality jobs to qualified youth after serving their country Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS)
    • Hiring Veterans and Returning Service Member Resources
      • One-stop information to help employers find out why, where, and how to recruit and hire qualified veterans.
• The Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP)
  Ft. Hood ACAP Center
  Bldg. 18010 3rd Fl Wing B
  Battalion Avenue
  Ft Hood, TX 76544
  • Many free services
  • Access skilled, experienced labor pool

 

Titles and Pay Rates

Texas A&M University System – Wide Pay Plan

All System-wide pay plan titles, generic job descriptions if available, required education/work experience and pay grade can now be found in Workday by searching as follows:

In the search bar next to the magnifying glass enter Job: Title of Position you are searching for

Click on the magnifying glass (be sure you are searching All of Workday category

Click on the job profile you want that appears in the Search Results – view the following information:

Overview tab – shows title code, job description if available, job family and job classification codes

Compensation tab – shows pay grade and will say “commensurate” if the title is not in the pay plan.

Qualifications tab – there are sub tabs where you can view required education and years of work experience for that title

Pay tab – indicates pay rate type (salaried or hourly) and job exempt (yes or no)

Contact your HR Generalist at AgriLife HR office for assistance with determining appropriate pay plan titles to use based on job duties.

Title list by Job Family

Titles List Sorted Alphabetically

• Student Titles

Pay Grades – Unit heads have approval to hire within the lower band. For the following research titles, unit heads have approval to hire up to top of middle band (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Assistant Research Scientist, Associate Research Scientist, Research Scientist, Assistant Research Specialist, Associate Research Specialist, Research Specialist). Approval to hire above these rates requires written approval by the director or designee.

Rules and Procedures

• • • Texas A&M University System
      • System Regulation 33.99.01 Employment Practices
      • System Regulation 33.99.09 Employment of Foreign Nationals
      • System Regulation 31.01.01 Compensation Administration
    • AgriLife Research
      • 33.99.01.A1.01 Recruiting and Employment Procedures for all Positions
      • 33.99.01.A0.03 Employment Verification
    • AgriLife Extension Service
      • 33.99.01.X1.01 Recruiting and Employment Procedures for all Positions
      • 33.99.01.X0.03 Employment Verification
    • TVMDL
      • 33.33.01.V1.01 Recruiting and Employment Procedures for all Positions
      • 33.99.01.V1.03 Employment Verification
    • TFS
      • 10.11 Employment Procedures
    • Compensation/Salary Approval Requirements
      • New Hires
        • Pay Plan Title: lower band, middle band for *research titles
        • Excluded Title:
          • New position: PD approved rate + 10%
          • Vacant (backfill): last budgeted amount
      • Reclassifications/Promotions
        • Pay Plan Title:
          • Title within same pay grade: 10% above current (unless above max for the pay grade)
          • Title in different pay grade: lower band, middle band for *research titles
        • Excluded Title: 10% above current
      • Transfers
        • same title/same location: no salary change
        • same title/different location or different title: same as Reclassifications/Promotions
      • Equity –  all require approval
      • Merit – outside budget, all require approval. During budget – greater than 10% requires approval
      • *Research Titles
        • 8544 – Research Assistant
        • 8545 – Research Associate
        • 8554 – Senior Research Associate
        • 8556 – Research Specialist I
        • 8551 – Research Specialist II
        • 8552 – Research Specialist III
        • 8557 – Research Specialist IV
        • 8553 – Research Specialist V
        • 5028 – Research Instrumentation Specialist
        • 5040 – Senior Research Instrumentation Specialist