The Product Change Log provides upcoming and recently released product changes in Handshake.
Updates are published bi-weekly on Fridays and are divided into the following sections:
- Coming soon: planned releases for the coming month.
- Recently launched: product changes that have just been released.
- Archive: product changes released more than one rolling month ago. Archived items are removed after two months.
Note: the release date for Coming soon changes aren't guaranteed and might be modified.
*This list of upcoming releases is not a comprehensive list of all upcoming launches or an official commitment, and all releases are subject to change.
Last update: March 27, 2023
Topics:
- Coming soon
- Recently launched
- Archive (updates from the last two months)
Coming soon
Coming soon: career services
| Update | Description |
Projected launch |
| Navigation bar | Updating the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen with our new brand colors and fonts. | March |
| Customizable employer collections filter | Brand the employer collections job filter with a name that resonates with your students. If your school short name is 15 characters or less, it will replace the word “Employer” in the filter name. | March |
| Expired posting comments and activity information | Comments and activity feed information on job postings will be removed 30 days after the job expires. This information will still be available via Analytics. | April |
| Reducing evergreen jobs | To reduce evergreen jobs (those with expiration dates far into the future) we're implementing a rule that job expiration dates cannot be more than one year from the job start date. When this change launches, we will also update existing jobs to ensure their expiration dates adhere to the one year maximum moving forward. No jobs will auto-expire because of this change. | April |
| Globalized start/expiration dates | To simplify the job posting experience for employers and ensure Handshake continues to run smoothly, employers will soon set one set of start and expiration dates on jobs, rather than a start and expiration date on a school-by-school basis. The expiration date will be able to be altered at a school-specific level if an on-campus interview is attached to a job. In conjunction with the updates to reduce evergreen jobs (above), we will globalize start and expiration dates for existing jobs as well. | April |
| Duplicate experience templates | Easily duplicate an experience template to maintain your settings when creating a new template. | April |
| Experience template qualifications | Set qualifications (like school year or major) on experience templates so that only those specific students can see them. | April |
| Experience template form fields | Dictate which experience student form fields are visible or hidden, and which are required or optional. | April |
| Experience form language updates | Updating the student form to reflect language changes requested by partners. Employers are now referred to as organizations. Jobs are referred to as experiences. | April |
Coming soon: students
| Update | Description | Projected launch |
| Employer collections | Updates to the job search experience call more attention to employers curated by career services. The collections an employer belongs to will be highlighted more prominently on job postings. Furthermore, the employer collections filter will be accessible outside of the “all filters” dropdown menu on the job search page. | March |
| Navigation bar | Updating the navigation bar with our new brand colors and fonts. We also plan to move the navigation bar from the top of the page to the left hand side of the page. No functionality is changing—just the design. | March |
| Job search filters | [Experiment] Testing new filters on the job search page. Mirroring the “new jobs recommended for you”, “popular in your major”, and “based on your career interests” sections on the homepage, these filters will help students explore jobs if they’re not sure where to start. | March |
| Helping students understand why they are receiving some emails | We'll be adding a line of copy to our highest volume emails to help students understand why are they are receiving this email. The updated copy will apply to emails sent from employers to students and Handshake's jobs and event digest emails. Example copy: "You're getting this email because this employer is looking for qualifications that match your profile." | March |
| Adding notifications bell | [Beta] Testing adding a notifications bell on the navigation bar on mobile and web to improve discoverability of notifications. | March |
| Improved login on iOS | To improve security and simplify logins on the iOS mobile app, we'll start testing using “magic” login links sent to a student’s email. Students will simply click the link and be redirected to a logged in experience on the iOS mobile app. This experience will replace the need to copy and paste a temporary passcode. | April |
| “Not interested” in a campaign | Students will now be able to give feedback on employer campaigns stating they’re “not interested”. If a student replies they aren’t interested, they’ll be unsubscribed from any follow up messages from that campaign and the campaign will be archived. This is a first step in reducing irrelevant campaign messages a student receives! | April |
Coming soon: employers
| Update | Description | Projected launch |
| Advocate permissions improvements | With this new launch Advocates will now have permission to view job posts - improving their context and subsequent conversations with perspective candidates. | March |
| Greenhouse custom demographic questions | We will be supporting Greenhouse's custom demographic questions on the Handshake-hosted application form. | March |
| Navigation bar | Updating the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen with our new brand colors and fonts. | March |
| Improved Campaign Targeting | To optimize campaign engagement and improve the messaging experience for recipients, students with a very low probability of response will be removed from campaign send-lists. | March |
| Campaign Email user experience | More than half of all student engagements with campaigns originate from emails sent directly from Handshake. This launch will improve the look and feel of these emails to help increase click-through-rate and response rate from students. | March |
| Simplified school posting | With a new streamlined school posting workflow, you can post your job to all connected schools with one click; you’ll also be able to post to a subset of schools by selecting a school list of your choice instead of each school separately. In addition, to make sure jobs are fresh and students see the most current jobs, we will implement application expiration dates to be set within one year of the application start date. Jobs will no longer have different start and expiration dates at the posting level and will adhere to the global start and expiration dates. | April |
| Reducing evergreen jobs | To reduce evergreen jobs (those with expiration dates far into the future) we're implementing a rule that job expiration dates cannot be more than one year from the job start date. When this change launches, we will also update existing jobs to ensure their expiration dates adhere to the one year maximum moving forward. No jobs will auto-expire because of this change. | April |
| Removing expired posting comment and activity data | We are going to be deleting comments and activity information from job posts 30 days after it expires in order to make sure our platform performance does not get impacted with more job post volume. | April |
| Talent List | We will simplify the UI within the Talent section of our Employer product to make it easier to understand prospects at a glance and filter our talent pool. This update will remove the previously used Your Candidates and Search All functions on Handshake in exchange for Talent List. | April |
Recently launched
Recently launched: career services
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Employer contact info | Surfacing the employer account owner’s email and phone number (alongside the optional public company email and phone number) on the employer profile page. NOTE: does not change the student view. | February 24, 2023 |
| Salary data in analytics | We updated how salary data is displayed in analytics. This existing salary field was replaced with new salary min and salary max fields, plus a new salary input type field to indicate whether the employer shared an estimated salary or a salary range. Historical salary data is preserved in the new fields. | March 7, 2023 |
| Improving event relevance | Making improvements to event relevance to boost career fairs and events coming in an 8 week time period, and ensure visibility of events from "my school" and with relevant employers. | March 20, 2023 |
| Bigger screen share window for virtual appointments | Updated video UI will create a 143% bigger window for screen sharing. | March 21, 2023 |
| Displaying medium on appointment list page | On the appointment list page, we provide the medium for each appointment to make it easier for users to review whether upcoming appointments are virtual or in-person. | March 23, 2023 |
| Formatting appointment messages | We added a new text editor tool for pre and post appointment messages that allows users to format with links, bullet points, numbered lists, underlines, and more. | March 23, 2023 |
Recently launched: students
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Post-apply similar jobs | [Experiment] After a student applies for a job, they're shown additional jobs similar to the one they applied for. | March 17, 2023 |
| Event relevance | We have improved event relevance! The order in which events show will be updated to reflect priority for career fairs and events hosted by my school, within the next 8 weeks (previously 2 weeks). More weight is also being added to events where there is a relevant employer as well. | March 20, 2023 |
| Gallery View | Allow users to see multiple video tracks at once (multiple hosts, or hosts and participants) when attending a group video session on Handshake. Tweak video UI to accommodate + address a few usability issues with screen sharing. | March 21, 2023 |
Recently launched: employers
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Community College Outreach in Segments | Allow employers to send campaigns specifically to students at community colleges and technical schools. | March 8, 2023 |
| Insights Library Report Sharing | Enable individuals at employer organizations who do not hold premium user seats to receive reports via the Insights Library. | March 20, 2023 |
| Gallery View | Allow users to see multiple video tracks at once (multiple hosts, or hosts and participants) when hosting a group video session on Handshake. Tweak video UI to accommodate + address a few usability issues with screen sharing. | March 21 2023 |
| Improving Applicant Analysis performance | To help employers increase efficiency and show return on investment, the Influence Analysis data in Applicant Analysis will now populate faster than before. Additionally, in-person fairs analytics will now include fairs where employers and attendees were both present. | March 21, 2023 |
| New Employer creation: Manual validation education | For new employers joining Handshake going through manual validation during account creation, a new screen will provide information about the process. We will also send an email to the employer once their account completes the manual validation process and is ready to be used. | March 23, 2023 |
Archive
Updates from the last two months
Past launches: career services
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Pronouns on appointment pages | If a student has added pronouns to their profile, they will appear on the appointment show page. | January 10, 2023 |
| Salary transparency | Handshake is helping employers more easily comply with existing salary transparency legislation in the US and encouraging salary transparency across all jobs too. Employers recruiting for paid jobs in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington are now required to include a pay range. Employers posting paid jobs outside those regions are strongly encouraged to include pay information as well. Your team can access this salary data, filter on it from the Jobs page, and use it when setting up job auto-approval criteria. Read a full synopsis of salary transparency updates in our blog. | January 12, 2023 |
| Targeted email IP addresses | We recently expanded our list of IP addresses used to send emails to students. We recommend sharing this help article with your IT department confirm that all relevant IP addresses are unblocked to ensure email deliverability. | January 26, 2023 |
| Support phone number | We now display our support team's phone number in Handshake for quick reference. You can find it in the Help dropdown menu. Reminder: please do not share this phone number with students or employers. It is for education partner use only. | February 7, 2023 |
| Increased character count on event descriptions | We've increased the character limit on event descriptions from 1500 characters to 2500 characters—a top piece of feedback from partners. | February 7, 2023 |
| Targeted emails "from" field | Previously, targeted emails your team sent had "via joinhandshake.com" appended to the sender's name. We've updated this language to "via Handshake" for better standardization with other emails students receive. We recommend communicating this change with your IT team to ensure email deliverability. | February 8, 2023 |
| Public fairs |
Public fairs no longer appear on the event discovery page for your students unless your institution has been invited to the fair. Public fairs will only be visible to student users that do not attend a Handshake partner institution, or to students who receive a direct link to the fair. We updated the fair creation form to make this more clear too. This was a top request from partners. NOTE: If you wish invite an institution that is not partnered with Handshake to your fair, please reach out to our support team. |
February 15, 2023 |
| Employer Booth Check-In | [Beta] Schools will be provided with QR codes to be placed at all employer booths at in-person career fairs for students can check-in to individual employer booths. Employers will receive a record of students who attended their booth and students will also receive a follow up email with prompts to follow up with the employers they checked-in with. | February 20, 2023 |
Past launches: students
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Skills autocomplete | When a student enters a new skill on their profile, auto-complete suggestions appear. Students are not required to select from the auto-complete suggestion list, but this update helps bring more structure to skills data over time. | January 27, 2023 |
| Engagement emails | Launched a new email that keeps students engaged in Handshake—it’ll be sent to students who haven’t been active for a month and share relevant job and event recommendations to encourage them to log back in. Learn more what is sent to students in About Student Emails. | January 31, 2023 |
| On-campus jobs filter | To make room for future filter enhancements, we’ve moved the on-campus filter from the top of the job search page to the All Filters tab. The filter had low student utilization. We plan to use the space to house new filtering options in the coming weeks—more details to come. | January 31, 2023 |
| Submitting experience evaluations | We’ve updated the button that students and employers click to submit experience evaluations—a top request from education partners. It now reads “Submit Evaluation”. Previously it read “Create Evaluation”. | February 2, 2023 |
| Social Proof on Events | We now display the number of registered students on event cards to incentivize more students to register. | February 9, 2023 |
| Inferred employer interest emails | We send students an email when an employer they follow posts a new, relevant job. Often, a student signals that they’re interested in an employer without following the employer—for example, when they respond to a message or save a job. We’re experimenting with sending that same job notification when we infer the student is interested in an employer. | February 9, 2023 |
Past launches: employers
| Update | Description | Launch date |
| Salary transparency | Handshake is helping employers more easily comply with existing salary transparency legislation in the US and encouraging salary transparency across all jobs too. Employers recruiting for paid jobs in California, Colorado, New York, and Washington are now required to include a pay range. Employers posting paid jobs outside those regions are strongly encouraged to include pay information as well. Read more in How to Post a Job. | January 12, 2023 |
| Top job matches | Employers now see the top four most relevant students for their job on the Matches tab. This feature makes it easier for employers to identify their most qualified candidates and invite them to apply. Learn more about the Matches tab here. | January 31, 2023 |
| Saved job email notification | Employers now receive an email when qualified students save their job postings. This is to encourage employers to message interested and qualified jobseekers to apply to their jobs and boost applications. | February 6, 2023 |
| One-click invites | [50% of employers] With this launch, employers can send a pre-built message to their matches and invite them to apply to their job. Students who receive these messages will see why an employer is reaching out to them (ie. what makes them a good match), making it easier for them to understand and act on these messages. This feature is currently available to 50% of users and will be more broadly available in the next few weeks. | February 7, 2023 |
| Increased character count on event descriptions | We've increased the character limit on event descriptions from 1500 characters to 2500 characters | February 7, 2023 |
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