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Reviewing Applications in Handshake

Tawnya
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Handshake will always provide you with a list of applicants (if you choose to collect applications in Handshake) or a list of candidates who clicked the link to your external job posting (if you chose to direct candidates to your ATS to apply). 

For an overview of managing applicants, check out the Job Applicant Management Guide.

 

 

Jobs

Click Jobs from the left navigation bar, select the job you want to review applications for, then click the Applicants tab. 

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You may use the filters on the left sidebar to narrow and customise your search results. 

You can filter applicants by:

  • Engagement
    • This filter returns any applicants who received a message with this job attached.
  • Status
  • Labels
  • Not Labels 
  • Institutions
  • Skills
  • Courses
  • Individual Courses
  • Date

To view only those who match your qualifications, select the desired qualifications in the top toolbar.

  • Graduation Date/Levels of Study
  • Course

Click directly on the name of the applicant to view their profile. Learn more about Viewing Student Profiles.

 

Interviews

Click Interviews from the left navigation bar, then select the interview you want to review applications for. 

On the Interview Details page, click the blue button Review Applicants at the top of the page. 

  • Alternatively, you may click the Applicants tab in the top-right corner of the page. 

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Click on the applicant name to view the applicant's profile. The profile contains the following information: 

  • Applied to: name of job the candidate applied for 
  • Status: application status (Pending, Hired, Declined, Primary, Alternate)
  • Application date: the date the application was created 
  • Created by: the name of the user that created the application 

For status considerations, check out Managing Applicant Status.

 

Qualifications

If you've specified qualifications, the number of qualifications that the applicant meets will be shown in the Qualifications column. Hover your mouse over the number value to understand which qualifications the candidate meets and doesn't meet.

Note: if the candidate meets all of the job qualifications, a green checkmark icon displays to the right of the number values. 

 

Jobs

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Interviews

Note: the Qualifications column on the Interviews page is currently labelled Preferences.

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View Application Documents (PDF)

Jobs

Click the paper icon to the far right of the student's name. A dropdown list will appear with the applicant's attached documents.
Note: the icon will only display if the applicant submitted a document(s). 
To open a PDF version of a document, click its name to open it in a new browser tab.
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Interviews

Click directly on the applicant's name to open their profile, then click the Documents tab. 

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Click into the Select Document field to select the document you want to view. The document will display on the page. To download the document, click the blue button Download Document. 

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