The Search Students page in Handshake provides a student directory at your approved schools of the students who have opted-in to sharing their profile with employers.
In order to use the Search Students feature, you need to be approved at schools and have your Institution Network set up. Please refer to Institution Network Management on how to manage your Institution Network on Handshake.
Please note: Premium features are for Handshake Premium accounts only. For more information, please check out this resource.
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How to access Search Students
Click on Search Students from the left navigation bar. This will take you directly to the Search Students page.
Please note that this screenshot is taken from our US site and there may be some differences in language from the UK platform.
If your company is a Premium partner, and your account has been designated as a Premium Seat in Handshake, click Candidates instead, then click the Search All tab. For more information on Your Candidates, refer to Candidate Hub (for Premium Employers).
Please note that this screenshot is taken from our US site and there may be some differences in language from the UK platform.
All students with public profiles at your approved schools will be listed with a brief summary of their profile, including their Name, Institution, Course, two most recent employers, and two most recent organisations
Search Students page filters
We recommend utilising the filters on the left of the page to help narrow down your search into a reasonable number of students to recruit from.
Tip: If you've selected a set of filters that you'd like to use again in the future, you can also save your search! For guidance, refer to How to Create a Saved Search.
The default page filters for all employers are:
- Keyword search
- Institution
- Level of Study
- Course Category
- Course
- Graduation Date
- Labels
- Not Labels
- Primary College
Premium partners have access to additional search filters, as long as the user account has a Premium Seat. These Premium filters include:
- Location Interests: Where a student has stated they are interested in working.
- Click on the filter name to enable a drop down search bar
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- Type in the desired location, and select the result from the populated drop-down menu
- You may filter here by city or state. For example: type in London, if you'd like to see only students interested living in London for work.
- Once your location is selected, you'll be able to select a location radius spanning from 5-100 miles within the location you entered.
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- Tip: click the small "X" next to the radius filter if you'd like to remove that from the search.
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- Click on the filter name to enable a drop down search bar
- Major Category: These majors consolidate individual majors across every school on Handshake
- Institution Type: This includes minority-serving institutions (nationally recognised colleges and universities that educate students of colour), and Women's Colleges (undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women)
- Diversity and Inclusion Focused Organisation: Meet more students who participate in on-campus clubs and nationally recognised organisations like the National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Women in Business, and others.
- Majors: This searches directly on the student's "course" profile field. To find as many relevant students as possible, we recommend:
- Using the shortest possible keyword (e.g., "software" instead of "software engineer")
- Adding multiple keywords when relevant (e.g., "software", "computer", "engineer")
- Past Companies: These would be any past companies a student has stated that the have worked for
- Past Job Titles: These would be any past job titles the student stated that they had.
- Organisations/Extracurriculars: This searches Organisations and Extracurriculars the student has added to their profile.
- Skills: Skills the student has listed on their profile.
Actions on the Search Students page
From the Search Students page, you can add or remove labels in bulk, message students*, or click their name to view their full profile.
Add or Remove Labels
To bulk add or remove labels to students, put a check next to each student name, then use the bulk action Add Label or Remove Label, located at the top of the display table.
- For additional information on labels-related workflows, refer to:
Message Students
In the upper-right corner of each student row is an option to message the student* –– click the message bubble icon to initiate a message to the student.
*In order to message students, employers must meet certain requirements. For more information, please refer to How to Send a Student a Message and Why can't I message students?
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