Employer Role Types: Advocate

Advocates help build candidate relationships by participating in events, fairs, live 1:1 session, and messaging.

Note: Advocates seats are only available to Handshake Premium partners with Talent Engagement Suite.

This role is best suited for:

Interns and former interns who are not full-time employees or do not have a company email. They help promote the company and share their experiences with students in events, fairs, and employer-hosted meetings.
Employees outside the recruiting team, such as ERG members, who support student engagement and help them learn about specific roles or departments.
Recruiting team members who do not manage day-to-day recruiting but are involved in the post-application hiring process (e.g., hiring managers).

Access to Handshake consists of both configurable and non-configurable permissions, as detailed below.

Default Permissions

The default permissions for all Advocates are:

Posts
- Post content (as yourself)
Jobs
- View jobs (Limited)
  - Advocates are only able to view job details for postings that have been shared with them.
Events
- Attend events
- Manage event attendees
Career fairs
- Attend fairs
- Manage fair attendees
1:1 schedules (Limited)
- Attend 1:1 schedules (Limited)
- Manage 1:1 schedule attendees (Limited)
Institutions & Contacts
- View institutions
Candidate sourcing (1:1, Limited)

TES-based permissions enabled by default:

Candidate sourcing (Advanced)
- View candidate engagement
- Talent List
- Tagged in message intros or campaigns
Institutions & Contacts
- Manage your institution lists

TES-based permissions available:

TES-based non-configurable permissions:

Permissions with the Events module

Permissions enabled for Advocates when the Events module is added:

Permissions available for Advocates when the Events module is added:

Permissions with Institution Explorer

Permissions available for Advocates when Institution Explorer is added:

Permissions with Insights

Permissions available for Advocates when Insights is added:

To learn more about our roles, refer to A Guide to Employer Role types in Handshake.
Discover how you can build your talent pipeline and hire more efficiently in our Handshake Advocate Playbook.
Learn more about the Advocate role in our self-guided Employer Academy course.

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