How to Post a Job

Watch a 4-minute training video on how to post a new job. 

If your company doesn’t have a Handshake profile yet, you’ll first need to create one. To learn more, read How to create a user profile?

To post a job on Handshake:

1. Start by clicking Post a Job from your home dashboard:

You can also click Jobs in the left hand navigation bar and then select Create Job toward the right hand corner. 

You will now be asked to complete 4 steps: Job Basics, Job Details, Job Preferences, and Schools to post the job to. You don't have to fill out every field to create your job - required inputs will be identified with an asterisk(*). 

Helpful Tip: the more fields you complete, the more well defined your job posting will be (and the more likely you’ll be to attract well-qualified candidates).

2. Let's start by going through Job Basics:

• Job Title
• You'll see an option below to add an ATS / job code. If you select this option, you'll be able to add a tracking code to this job that matches the job on your own external site. It's useful as a reference number, but does not actually provide any additional functionality.
• Company Division
  • If your company has Divisions set up, you'll see that drop down menu appear right below job title. Make sure to select which division within your company you're hiring for. If you need help adding a division, check out this article here. 
• Require students to apply through an external website or applicant tracking system
• If you select "yes" for this option, you'll be able to input a url for them to apply through
• Note, they will still apply through Handshake first, but they will see your link to also apply through your own system as a required step.
• Display your contact information to students
• If you'd like students to see your name, or your name and email as a point of contact for this job, select either option. Otherwise you can always choose "Don't show my info"
• Add a Job Type
• Don't see the job type you're looking for? Choose "Show more options", and you'll see options for Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning, Fellowship, and Graduate School
• Add an Employment Type & Duration
• When selecting Temporary / Seasonal, you'll need to add both the start and end dates. 
• Work Study Job
  • If this is a work study job, students that are not eligible for work study at their school will not be able to view or apply to this position.
    • This is only true for schools that choose to Enforce Work Study. This setting can be found under school settings by a Career Services User. 
    • At schools where they do not choose to Enforce Work Study, any students view and apply to work study jobs, but will be shown as not fully qualified. 

3. Once you're finished with Job Basics, choose Next along the bottom of your screen. Next we'll go through adding in your Job Details:

• Add a Description for your job
• If you copy and paste a description from your own website, we'll retain all of the formatting for you
• Choose Job Functions from the dropdown
• This helps students search for jobs by their functional area
• You can add a Job Salary if you'd like, however this is completely optional. 
• You can also toggle the dropdown on the right between per year / per month / per hour, or mark the job as an unpaid position
• Enter a location for your job
• As you start typing the address, some suggestions will show up in the address field - you must select one rather than manually typing it in.
• This can be a specific office location, or a general city like "Chicago, USA"
  • If you do not see your location listed, please submit feedback to Mapbox here: https://www.mapbox.com/geocoder-feedback/ 
• If this position is located in multiple locations you can select Add Another Location
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• If your job is in the United States, you'll see an additional "Eligibility for international students" section appear. We'll talk about that below.
• Finally, choose which documents to require students to submit with their application

 

5. Once you're finished with Job Preferences, choose Next along the bottom of your screen. Next we'll go through School selection: 

• Add schools on the left, and you'll see them appear on the right in a table
• Note: if your company has not been approved to post jobs at a school, you will not see that school as an option. If you have not been approved at any schools, you can still create this job and come back later to add schools. 
• If you'd like to post this job to all schools you've been approved at, select "Add All Schools" at the top
• Once you've added schools, you'll see a few options to manage them
• Remove a school - The (-) to the left of each schools allows you to remove it from the list
• Interview on campus? - selecting this will simply flag this job on the school side, as an employer potentially interested in interviewing. To actually request an on campus interview, please see the relevant help article. 
• Apply start date - you can choose if you'd like to block students from applying to your job until a specific date.
• Expiration date - you can update the date that the job will expire at that school (and students will no longer be able to apply).
• Adding a Global apply start date allows you to update the job start date for every school on your list (it will overwrite previously set start dates).
• Adding a Global post expiration allows you to update the post expiration for every school on your list (it will overwrite previously set expiration dates).

6. You're all set! Choose Create on the bottom navigation to create and review your job

Tip: To see the application process from a students perspective please view: How do I apply for a job?