Journeys is a Handshake feature, available exclusively to European institutions, which allows career centres to organise actions for students to complete. Students can explore these activities and track progress as they move through the process.
This will allow career services users to track and support students’ career readiness in Handshake, and students will have institution-backed incentives to further engage with employers, students and career services teams.
Enabling Journeys
To view and set up Journeys, a career services user must have both the Journeys and Show Labels on Students settings enabled in their permissions. Once checked, the Journeys option will then be available in the Students section of the left navigation menu.
For more information on enabling roles & permissions, refer to Institution Settings: Career Services Staff Roles and Permissions.
Creating a Journey
Click Journeys on the left navigation menu then click the black button Create Journey, located in the upper-right corner of the page.
There are four steps involved in creating a Journey:
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Basic Info - add a Journey Name, description and image.
- Note: When uploading images, we recommend ensuring that you use a high quality image that fits the 400 x 400 pixel recommendation. We advise against using rectangular/landscape aspect ratios as the image space is optimised for a square orientation.
- Qualifications - add qualifications so only qualified students can access the Journey.
- Goals - add specific goals to the Journey. A student needs to complete all goals within a Journey for it to be fully complete. Refer to Journeys - Goal Creation and Management for more information on Goals.
- Review & Publish - check your settings and publish the Journey.
To save the Journey, click the grey Save as Draft button in the upper-right corner. The Journey is also automatically saved every time the Next button is clicked between stages. This is indicated by a green tick next to the text Autosave.
Managing existing Journeys
Published, Archived and Draft Journeys are accessed by using the tabs at the upper-left side of the screen within the Journeys page.
To edit or review a Journey, click the pencil icon, located to the right of the Journey you want to manage.
To access a list of students within a Journey, click directly on the name. Here you can edit a student's Journey, and complete goals on their behalf.
For more information on editing Goals after creation, refer to Journeys - Goal Creation and Management.
Monitoring student progress
Click on the journey you want to review student progress for, then use the filters located on the left side of the page under Journey progress. Students with the corresponding progress status will be listed on the page.
To send a reminder email to students, select individual students using the check box to the left of their name, or check the box next to the Student name field header to select all. Then click the white button Send email at the upper-right side of the page.
For more information on creating and sending emails in Handshake, refer to Creating and Sending Targeted Emails.
For more information on monitoring progress and reporting, refer to Journeys - Monitoring Progress and Reporting.