When you post a job on Handshake, each school you select must approve your posting before it becomes visible to students.
This article explains how the approval process works, what each posting status means, and how edits affect your posting's approval.
If you have not yet posted a job, refer to How to Post a Job.
Job posting approval process
It typically takes 1–5 business days for a school to approve a job posting. If there is no status change within that time frame, you can leave a comment on the posting or contact the school directly for more information.
Job posting statuses
Active postings are jobs that have not yet closed and have one of the following statuses:
- Pending: The posting has been successfully requested at the school and has not yet been processed.
- Approved: The posting is visible to students at the approving school, based on the job's open date.
- Declined: The posting has been reviewed and declined by the school. Declined jobs are not visible to students at that school.
Inactive postings have one of the following statuses:
- Closed: The posting was previously approved, and the close date has passed.
- Not Posted: The job was created and saved but has never been submitted to a school.
How edits affect your posting
You can edit a job at any time, but the outcome depends on the posting's current status.
- Pending: Edits do not affect the status or request date. The posting remains pending until the school processes it.
- Approved: If you change the application open or close dates, the posting will return to pending and the school will need to approve it again. All other edits are saved and appear immediately at approved schools without changing the approval status.
- Closed: Renewing a closed posting resubmits it to the schools it was originally posted to for approval.