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    Human Resources

    Start with onboarding or offboarding, then find official help for leave, development, hiring, pay, workplace concerns, and faculty policy.

    Content owner: AAD Human Resources

    Review expectation: Review this section when human resources contacts, forms, links, policies, or process details change.

    Change path: Send corrections, missing links, or owner updates through Request a website change.

    New Hire Hub

    Choose the path that matches your role. Each guide covers the preparation, questions, and first-month support that matter to that audience.

    Start here I am a new non-academic employee

    An onboarding guide written directly for new staff, A/P faculty, and 1500-hour wage employees.

     Alternate path I am a new faculty member

    An onboarding guide written directly for new T&R faculty on academic contracts.

     Alternate path I supervise someone new

    A planning guide for a first-time direct supervisor preparing for a new employee.

    Offboarding Hub

    Choose the path that matches your role. Employee and supervisor actions stay separate, and these official university destinations are the current safe starting points.

    Start here I am leaving AAD

    Use the employee path to distinguish a separation from an internal transfer, plan your handoff, and find the official Virginia Tech checklists.

     Alternate path I supervise someone who is leaving

    Use the supervisor path to assign closeout owners, protect continuity, and coordinate case-specific actions privately with AAD HR.

    Community & Climate

    Review the college climate check-in presentation and supporting data. Access is limited to current AAD faculty and staff.

    University Governance

    Use these university-owned sources for faculty policy and graduate conflict-of-interest questions. They are maintained by the offices responsible for the guidance.

    • Faculty Handbook

      Read the current Faculty Handbook for university faculty appointments, responsibilities, promotion, tenure, leave, conduct, and other academic employment policies.

    • Navigating Conflicts of Interest

      Use the Graduate School guidance to recognize, discuss, and resolve conflicts of interest that can affect graduate students and their academic relationships.

    Professional Development Support

    Start with the university program that fits your goal. Ask your supervisor and AAD HR or Finance before enrolling, committing funds, or assuming additional college support is available.

    University tuition benefits

    Review the current eligibility, course, approval, waiver, and reimbursement rules before you register or pay.

    Professional and leadership learning

    Browse university learning opportunities for individual contributors, leaders, and teams through Talent Development.

    Additional AAD funding

    Ask AAD HR or Finance whether a current college program exists. Old local forms, caps, dates, and approval paths are not published here because ownership has not been confirmed.

    • Virginia Tech Tuition Benefits

      Check the current university tuition waiver and reimbursement program, including who is eligible, which courses qualify, and what approvals are required.

    • Talent Development

      Find Virginia Tech professional, leadership, team, and career-aligned learning opportunities, plus the route to the university training catalog.

    Leave Resources

    Use the official page for the type of leave you are considering, then contact AAD HR or the HR Service Center for questions about your circumstances, eligibility, or timing.

    • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

      Review Virginia Tech’s FMLA overview, employee and supervisor responsibilities, forms, and contacts when a qualifying medical or family need may require protected leave.

    • Modified Duties for Faculty

      Use Faculty Affairs guidance when a tenured, tenure-track, continued-appointment, or continued-appointment-track faculty member needs a temporary modified workload.

    • Paid Parental Leave

      Read the current paid parental leave program, eligibility conditions, request timing, forms, and coordination requirements before making plans.

    • Leave Overview

      Start with the university leave overview to compare employee leave plans and find the official page for the specific leave type you need.

    Hiring or Changing a Position

    Start with your intent, then ask AAD HR which current college and university path applies. Old local position-request PDFs and unverified approval sequences are not published here.

    Recruit or hire

    Use the university recruiting and hiring guidance for current employment, search, offer, and onboarding resources.

    Change employment information

    Use the employee-transactions area for official university guidance on employment changes and processing.

    Request an AAD position or backfill

    Contact AAD HR before preparing materials. The current local owner, form, funding review, and approval route must be confirmed for the specific request.

    • Virginia Tech Recruiting and Hiring

      Find university recruiting and hiring resources for candidates, hiring managers, search committees, offers, pre-employment steps, and onboarding.

    • Hiring and Employee Transactions

      Use the central Human Resources area to locate current guidance for hiring, employment changes, transfers, offboarding, and other employee transactions.

    Sensitive HR, Pay & Workplace Topics

    Use the office that owns the issue rather than sharing sensitive details broadly. These routes help you reach an authoritative source without asking Inside AAD to decide an individual case.

    Pay, benefits, appointment, or leave

    Contact AAD HR or the HR Service Center for compensation, payroll, benefits, appointment, leave, and employment-status questions.

    Faculty policy

    Use Faculty Affairs and the current Faculty Handbook for faculty appointment, promotion, tenure, workload, and academic-employment policy.

    Recruiting or hiring

    Contact AAD HR and use the official university recruiting and hiring guidance for process questions.

    Discrimination, harassment, ADA, or Title IX

    Contact Civil Rights Compliance for reporting, support, accommodations, and university civil-rights processes. Use SAFE at VT for sexual-harassment or violence support and reporting options.

    • Do not include personal case details in a website-change request. Contact the responsible office through its official channel.
    • For immediate danger, call 911 instead of using this page.
    • Virginia Tech Human Resources

      Use the central Human Resources site for benefits, leave, employment, compensation, workplace, and HR Service Center information maintained by the university.

    • Virginia Tech Recruiting and Hiring

      Find the current university guidance and resources for recruiting, searches, hiring, offers, pre-employment steps, and onboarding.

    • Faculty Handbook

      Read the current university source for faculty appointments, responsibilities, promotion, tenure, leave, conduct, and academic-employment policy.

    • Civil Rights Compliance

      Learn how Virginia Tech responds to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, find support, or use the official reporting options.

    Mental Health & Wellbeing Resources

    A broad array of resources supports employee mental health. Virginia Tech’s Hokie Wellness page for employee mental health is the central starting point; the university and community programs below offer counseling and, in several cases, free or sliding-scale services and 24/7 crisis support.

    Sexual Harassment & Assault

    You can seek support whether or not you make a formal report. Choose the route that fits what you need now, and share sensitive details only with the office or confidential resource you select.

    If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If an assault occurred within the last 72 hours, SAFE at VT has time-sensitive medical, safety, support, and reporting guidance.

    Confidential resources can help you explore support and options without sharing identifying information without your consent, subject to the exceptions explained by Virginia Tech.

    Civil Rights Compliance accepts university reports of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation and explains available resources and resolution options.

    Virginia Tech employees should review the SAFE at VT employee guidance. Some employees are responsible employees and must report certain disclosures to the Title IX Coordinator.

    • SAFE at VT

      Start here for Virginia Tech support, survivor resources, prevention information, reporting options, and time-sensitive guidance after sexual harassment or violence.

    • Confidential Resources

      Find university and community resources that can provide confidential support, explain options, and help care for your well-being.

    • Guidance for Employees

      Review employee reporting obligations, ways to support someone who discloses harm, and support available to employees who need help.

    • Civil Rights Compliance and Reporting

      Use the official Virginia Tech route to report discrimination, harassment, or retaliation and learn what support and response options are available.