Handshake is designed to have a single company profile for each brand. Each company or organisation should have only one company profile on Handshake.
The existence of multiple company profiles representing the same company, even if they are for regional or divisional recruiting purposes, can cause confusion for career service offices and may result in unnecessary flags. Furthermore, it can add confusion to students as they seek out your opportunities.
- A company profile merge may take place if there are duplicate company profiles found in Handshake.
- A merge may also occur if separate company profiles exist in Handshake as divisions but should all be under one parent company profile.
After merging company profiles, the company profile owner can add divisions to the profile. Learn more about How to Add Divisions to Your Company.
- Divisions currently exist for job postings and in-person career fair registrations. Separate company descriptions, branding images, websites, etc. will not be able to added in a division.
Note: merges are non-reversible and can not be undone once completed.
Merge process
A merge will:
- Take up to 7 days to process. A warning will be issued to the affected employers, giving them one week to respond.
- Combine any duplicate company profiles into one centralised profile, allowing the company profile owner (or admin) to create divisions within that profile.
- Merge historical data, including job postings, events, interviews, career fairs, and company reviews, into the selected parent company profile.
- Deactivate all teammate accounts from the company profile being merged, for security reasons.
- The teammates of the merged-to company profile will not be impacted.
- The company profile owner (or admin) will be able to review the status of each teammate and reactivate accounts as needed.
- Combine approved institutions from both company profiles.
- Override other statuses (pending/declined) with institution approvals from either company profile.
- For example, if one company profile was denied at an institution but the other was approved, the final merged company profile will be approved at that institution.
- Retain only the kiosk responses and check-ins of the "to" employer (the company profile being merged into) if both companies attended the same event.
- To preserve specific check-in data from the other company profile before the merge, download a CSV file of this event information in advance.
A merge will not:
- Alter user login credentials (each user retains their own user account), job postings, institution approvals, and historical data.
- Reset any institution approvals. However, the merge will reset each user's Favourite Institutions list.
- To add institutions to your Favourite list, refer to the steps outlined in Institution Network Management: Requesting, Adding, and Removing Institutions.