While You Were Working

Updates and announcements from the UND Office of Human Resources

Archive for
August, 2025

Encouraging Employee Development

Categories: Supervisors

University employees have access to trainings and professional development opportunities. Occasionally, employees may need additional encouragement to enroll in a course. Supervisors can provide this push by forwarding training opportunities, setting aside time specifically for training, and having a conversation regarding their employee’s professional and personal goals and the support they may need to reach […]

Policy Highlight: Annual Leave

Categories: Policy/Procedures, Supervisors

Concise insights into the policies that impact our workplace and empower our employees. Each month, the Office of Human Resources will highlight a policy, enhancing awareness and ensuring leaders are well-informed. This will provide education and clarification to supervisors on policies relevant to to managing employees at the University. Additionally, this series of articles will […]

Sterling is now First Advantage

Categories: Software, Supervisors

UND’s background check vendor Sterling is now operating under the name First Advantage First Advantage acquired Sterling in October 2024. First Advantage has since announced a series of brand enhancements. Primarily, an updated logo and email domain. Going forward, any emails that would have previously come from Sterling will now be branded with the First […]

New Absence Management Feature

Categories: Software, Supervisors

Employee Self-Service will now have a new feature On Thursday, August 21, Employees submitting leave in Absence Management will have the opportunity to indicate a beginning and end time on partial day requests.  This enhancement allows employees to specify the times they’ll be gone when submitting a partial day leave request. This is an optional […]

July’s New Hawks at Work

Categories: New Employees

Join us in welcoming our newest team members to the University of North Dakota! This month, we’re excited to introduce 25 new benefited employees who bring diverse skills, fresh perspectives, and a shared commitment to excellence. HIGHLIGHTED HAWKS To help you get to know them better, many of our new Hawks at Work have shared […]

Delegating Approvals

Categories: Software, Supervisors

Delegating approvals allows supervisors and departments flexibility. Manager Self-Service (MSS) provides supervisors the ability to delegate their rights to approve to another UND employee. This may be necessary if a department’s process route approvals through one central person, such as a department administrator. When a delegation is given, the delegator (you) loses access to whatever […]

Accessing Payroll Calendars

Categories: Payroll, Supervisors

Learn how to view payroll deadlines and why they matter All employees have access to the payroll calendars and deadlines. UND supervisors are encouraged to save the outlook calendar to ensure they have easy access to view important deadlines. It’s important for supervisors to recognize how each deadline will impact your employee’s pay. Below is […]

How to Find the Additional/Reduce Pay Form

Categories: Software, Supervisors

The form can now be found on eForms Homepage in Self-Service On Monday, August 18, 2025, the additional/reduce pay moved from the GT Forms tile in employee self-service to the new GT eForms homepage. Supervisors looking to complete an additional/reduce pay request will need to switch homepages by selecting the dropdown on the top left […]

Policy Highlight: Leave Sharing Program (Donated Leave)

Categories: Policy/Procedures, Supervisors

Concise insights into the policies that impact our workplace and empower our employees. Each month, the Office of Human Resources will highlight a policy, enhancing awareness and ensuring leaders are well-informed. This will provide education and clarification to supervisors on policies relevant to to managing employees at the University. Additionally, this series of articles will […]