You must be a full time UCLA undergraduate student status (enrolled in a minimum of 12 units) in good academic standing (maintaining at least 2.5 overall GPA), available to work a minimum of 7 hours per week (excluding university holidays and campus closures – winter break) and available to participate for the entire duration of winter and spring quarters 2024. Due to the minimum hours required, the Campus Tour Program cannot hire students who are concurrently employed as Residential Advisors (RAs) through the Office of Residential Life

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Our application is due on October 16 at 11:59 pm!

The hiring process includes three main steps. First, you will submit an online application, responding to all prompts. If invited back, you will then move onto a group interview. Finally, you will be called back for an individual interview.

Once our tour guides are hired, they are trained throughout the following winter quarter in multiple steps, including shadowing tours, giving tours with multiple new tour guides, and tag-teaming a tour with a current tour guide. The training process is extremely supportive and steadily paced, and it ensures that each of our tour guides are fully ready to give solo tours by the end of the quarter!

Yes! Our tour guides are currently paid $17.30 per hour.

Work hours can vary depending on season or how much you want to work. On average, each tour guide works about 7 hours per week.

Our guides’ work schedules are carefully created with priority always given to classes first. Our guides also preference what days and times of days they would prefer to work.

Yes! We wear our iconic blue polos, so guests can easily spot us around campus.

Many of our campus tour guides work multiple jobs, it is definitely possible to do so as long as you can balance it. However, students cannot apply to be a tour guide if they are Residential Advisors (RAs) because of the time commitment. Additionally, if you work another job for UCLA, you may only work a maximum of 19.5 hours/ week, as per University rules.

Academic Year tour guides will work September to June, while Year to Round tour guides are required to also work the first summer that they are hired. This year, we have decided that by allowing applicants to choose what position they apply to, we are able to maintain our tours capacity over the summer while giving our guides the flexibility of what they do over the summer. If you think you are studying abroad, unable to live in Westwood, or plan to have an internship, the Academic Year guide is best for you!

Summer Tour Guides are only hired to give tours over the summer. Summer hiring is contingent upon staffing needs. If you fill out the form on the application, we will follow up in March with a better idea of what the staffing needs are. Additionally, if you are hired as a Summer Tour Guide, you would have to reapply if you would like to continue during the school year.

Yes! We have two sessions. Firstly, Wednesday, October 2, 7 - 8 PM in Rolfe Hall Room 3162 and Secondly, Thursday, October 10, 6 - 7 PM in Dodd Hall Room 146. During the information sessions you’ll get the chance to talk to current guides about their experience and get some insight into the application process!