Find a temporary employee
MIT's preferred staffing agencies are ready to help when you need temporary staff to fill an opening.
Types of non-academic appointments
Use this information to help you determine if an employee should be MITemps (nextSource) staff or an MIT employee.
Pay a temporary employee you've already found (MITemps)
Short-term hires are engaged through the MITemps program, managed by our vendor partner, nextSource. This provides a cost-effective, efficient way of onboarding and managing this population of the MIT workforce.
How to use MITemps
- Use VNDLY to request, hire, manage, and approve time for all your MITemps temporary staffing needs. Please submit your request at least 10 business days in advance of when you need the worker to start. Vist the VNDLY website.
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You can sign in using Single Sign On (SSO) through MIT Touchstone. MITemps hiring managers do not need a password.
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Need help accessing VNDLY? Contact the nextSource program team at mit@nextsource.com.
- Learn more about working with MITemps or get more help with VNDLY.
Extending or ending employment of a temporary employee
- For temporary employees employed through a vendor partner, MIT managers work with the company to end, extend, or otherwise change a temporary employee's assignment with MIT. The company will communicate directly with the temporary employee.
- If the individual is authorized to work onsite, DLCIs must end authorized access at the end of the temporary employee's engagement.
Background Checks
Effective August 1, 2024, all temporary staffing agencies are required to conduct pre-employment criminal background checks on temporary staff hired to work for MIT. When choosing to work with a non-preferred agency, you must ensure that the agency has conducted the background check.
Effective October 1, 2024, nextSource is required to conduct pre-employment criminal background checks for all new MITemp placements.
Temporary staff may begin employment prior to completion of a background check, but ongoing employment is contingent upon the outcome of the check. Allowing temporary staff to have access to credit cards and sensitive information is strongly discouraged until their background checks are fully completed. For positions that require working with minors or residing in residence halls, background checks must be completed prior to the start date.
There are two exceptions to the pre-employment background check requirement for all staffing agencies and nextSource. A background check will not be required if:
- an agency placed a particular temporary worker for a position with MIT for whom the agency performed a background check within the past 12 months; or
- when an MIT employee has terminated employment from MIT and is later hired by a staffing agency to work at MIT within 30 days of termination.
These exceptions do not apply to any temporary staff assigned to work with minors or placed in a position with the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER).
Need Help?
For questions regarding the MITemps program, please contact the nextSource program team at mit@nextsource.com.
A member of the nextSource program team is on campus on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Atlas Service Center (located on the first floor of E17, 40 Ames Street entrance).
Program Team members:
- Marie Barry, Sr. Program Specialist
- Jo Josephs, Program Specialist
- Maggie Almonte, Program Specialist
