School Network Management: Requesting, Adding, and Removing Schools

Handshake allows employers to manage their school network by requesting access, organizing connections, and performing actions such as posting jobs and reviewing past communications.

Learn more about Navigating the School Network Management Page. 

Permissions to recruit at each school are managed at the company-to-school level. This means:

• If you want to recruit from specific schools, you must either post a job and obtain approval, or request to join their network directly if you don’t have a job to post.
• If a school declines your job posting, you may post another job to that school—provided the school has not declined your company.
• If a school declines your company, you will not be able to post jobs or participate in other recruiting activities at that school. You may still post events or register for career fairs, but the school will not update your connection status.

Manage your connections

To begin, click Schools from the left navigation bar, then click on each tab as applicable. 

Requesting approval 

1.  Click the More Schools on Handshake tab. This tab displays a list of all schools in the Handshake network that you have not yet connected with or are awaiting approval from. 

2. To view the schools where you can request approval, click the white Filters button, then select Available to post job in the Approval Status section. 

3. After selecting your desired filters, click the black button Apply in the lower-right corner of the filter sidesheet.

4. The table will update to show only the schools where you can request approval either by posting a job or by requesting to join their network.

Note: If you have a job to post, you can also select the school during the job creation process. Once the job is approved, the school will appear on the Your Employer's Schools tab on the Schools page.

5. From the table, select the school you'd like to request approval from, then click the white button Favorite and request.

Note: Schools requested will automatically be added to your favorites list.

6. After you submit the request, a banner will appear in the lower-right corner of the page displaying the message "School added to favorites. The school will also receive a request from your employer to join their network."

7. The status of your connection request will update to Pending, and the request will be sent to the school for review. 

To learn more about the approval process, refer to How Can I Get Approved By Schools?.

Adding schools to your Favorites 

1. Click the Your Employer's Schools tab. This tab includes all schools where your company is currently approved to recruit.

2. Navigate to the school that you want to add to your Favorites, then click the white button Add to favorites to the far right of the school name. 

Removing schools from your Favorites 

Click the Favorites tab, then navigate to the school(s) that you want to remove from your Favorites. 

Note: If you're a Premium partner and want to remove a school(s) from your Favorites, refer to the section Delete and manage lists in How to Use School Lists.

Remove a single school

1. Click the gray button Remove to the far right of the school name.

2. In the pop-up modal, confirm the action by clicking the red button Remove. 

Remove multiple schools

1. Check the box to the left of each school's name.

2. Click the hyperlinked text Remove Selected in the upper-right corner of the table.

3. In the pop-up modal, confirm the action by clicking the red button Remove.  

In addition to managing school connections, you can take other actions on the School Network Management page. 

These include viewing comments, adding notes, and reviewing comment history. Expand the sections below to learn more about each action.

From any tab on the School Network Management page, click on the name of the school to access their profile and view and add notes.

To view or add a note, click the blue button View & Add Notes in the Actions section located to the left of the page.

Note: Notes are private and will not be seen by anyone except you and your staff.

To begin, enter your note in the Note field provided, then click the blue button Add Note. 

• To share the note with your staff, click the blue button Share with Staff.
• To keep the note private, and only visible to you, select Personal Note from the Share with Staff dropdown. 

To contact Career Services at any school with a comment, click directly on their profile.

• If you're already connected with the school, add your comment in the textbox in the sub-section Discussion in the School Approval section, then click the blue button Add Comment. 

 

• If you're not yet connected, and you have a pending job at a school, add your comment in the textbox in the sub-section Add Comment in the Job History section, then click the blue button Add Comment. 

The school will be notified and can reply if they wish. As long as your notifications are enabled, you will receive a notification if they respond. View your Default Notification Preferences (Employers).

 

To view your comment history with a particular school, click directly on their profile. 

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  • If you click to view a school's profile from the Your Employer's Schools tab, comments will display in the sub-section Discussion in the School Approval section.

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  • If you click to view a school's profile from the More Schools on Handshake tab, comments will display in the sub-section Add Comment in the Job History section.