Students will receive emails from Handshake for a variety of reasons. Our University Success and Support teams have put together a database of the emails students can receive and examples of each email and organized them into categories, listed below.
Welcome Back to School Series:
These are strategically timed emails to orient users to the features of Handshake. All of these email are sent from “noreply@joinhandshake.com”. These messages will only be sent once in a semester.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Welcome Back to School Series
Activation Series:
These are strategically timed emails to orient users to the features of Handshake. Emails are sent exclusively to students that have activated their Handshake accounts, and all emails are sent from “noreply@joinhandshake.com”. Messages will only be sent once in a semester.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Activation Series
Optional Notifications:
These notifications can be opted into/out of per student in their Notification Preferences. The emails are triggered by activity on the Handshake platform, and all emails come from the domain “notifications.joinhandshake.com”, save for Event and Career Fair invitations; those two invites are sent from “mail.joinhandshake.com”.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Optional Notifications
Transactional Emails:
These emails are triggered directly by student activity on the Handshake platform, and the emails come from the domain “m.joinhandshake.com”.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Transactional Emails
Marketing Emails:
These emails are automatically generated to students after they have activated their Handshake account, and each email comes from the domain “g.joinhandshake.com”.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Marketing Emails
Job Recommendation Digests:
These emails are generated based on both Student’s career interests as well as their job search activity in Handshake and are sent from the domain “mail.joinhandshake.com”.
Link to all possible emails and examples here: Student Emails: Job Recommendation Digests
Targeted Emails:
These emails are sent from the domain “mail.joinhandshake.com”.
These emails are generated by our University Partners, so the content is unique to each Career Services team that composes these.
We do have other articles in our Help Center that go more in depth on some of these emails, and you can check out those resources here: