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If Your Major (or Minor) is Missing or Incorrect

Tawnya
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Having your major added to your profile is an important component of Handshake! Employers often use majors to connect with students of interest to offer job opportunities as well as event invites. Career services users may also use majors as a requirement to attend appointments, events, or fairs.
 
Your major is added to our profile via one of the following ways:
  • Uploaded by your school
    • If your school pre-created an account for you, your major and minor are uploaded to your profile for you. This is usually added from data provided by your school registrar.
  • Added by yourself
    • If you created an account yourself, you received the option to add a major for yourself during the account creation process.
 

Update or add major

🚀Tip: If you're a current student at a partner school and you're changing your major, we recommend you contact your school's Career Center to correct it on their end. This will ensure that the data your school has on file is accurate, and that your information doesn't revert in Handshake. 

1. Click your account icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, then click My profile from the dropdown.

2. Scroll down to the Education section of your profile, then click on the pencil icon located to the right of the school that you need to update the corresponding major to.

3. Within the pop-up scroll to find the major section, then click inside the text box and start typing to find your major. Only majors associated with your institution are available via the dropdown. 

To add a second major, click inside the box and start typing the major’s name. Majors will appear in the order you enter them. To change the order, remove the majors and re-add them in your preferred sequence. To remove a major, click the X next to its name..

If the major field is grayed out with a lock icon, this means your school has locked the field and you cannot edit the information. You'll need to notify your career services department of the change you'd like to make. To find your school's contact information, refer to How to Locate your School’s Contact Information in Handshake.

4. Once the major is updated, click the black button Save and close to save!

For more information on updating your profile in Handshake, follow the steps in How to Edit Education Information on Your Profile.