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If Your Course is Missing or Incorrect

Tawnya
  • Updated
Having your course added to your profile is an important component of Handshake! Employers often use courses to connect with students of interest to offer job opportunities as well as event invites. Career services users may also use courses as a requirement to attend appointments, events, or fairs.
 
Your course is added to our profile via one of the following ways:
  • Uploaded by your institution
    • If your institution pre-created an account for you, your course and minor are uploaded to your profile for you. This is usually added from data provided by your institution registrar.
  • Added by yourself
    • If you created an account yourself, you received the option to add a module for yourself during the account creation process.
 

Update or add module

🚀Tip: If you're a current student at a partner institution and you're changing your course, we recommend you contact your institution's Career Centre to correct it on their end. This will ensure that the data your institution has on file is accurate, and that your information doesn't revert in Handshake. 

1. Click your account icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, then click My profile from the dropdown.

2. Scroll down to the Education section of your profile, then click on the pencil icon located to the right of the institution that you need to update the corresponding course to.

3. Within the pop-up scroll to find the course section, then click inside the text box and start typing to find your course. Only courses associated with your institution are available via the dropdown. 

To add a second course, click inside the box and start typing the course’s name. Courses will appear in the order you enter them. To change the order, remove the courses and re-add them in your preferred sequence. To remove a course, click the X next to its name..

If the course field is greyed out with a lock icon, this means your institution has locked the field and you cannot edit the information. You'll need to notify your career services department of the change you'd like to make. To find your institution's contact information, refer to How to Locate your Institution’s Contact Information in Handshake.

4. Once the course is updated, click the black button Save and close to save!

For more information on updating your profile in Handshake, follow the steps in How to Edit Education Information on Your Profile.