When you sign up for a Handshake account, some notifications are enabled by default.
Emails generated from schools, such as information about upcoming career fairs, events, interview schedule availability, and invoices, are sent regardless of your notification preferences in Handshake.
Access your notification preferences
1. Click on your name in the upper-right corner of any page, then select User Settings from the dropdown.
2. From the menu on the left of the page, click Notification Preferences.
Edit your notification preferences
Activities marked with a green check are automatically enabled when you create your account.
To adjust your notification preferences, select or deselect the items for each activity. Changes are saved automatically.
Note: Notification preferences for activities marked with a circle-backslash icon cannot be updated.
You can choose to receive notifications through email, Handshake, or both:
- Email: A notification is sent to the email address associated with your account.
- Handshake: A notification appears in Handshake. Access it by clicking the globe icon in the upper-right corner of any page.
You can edit your notification preferences for the following activities:
- General
- Events
- Interviews
- Jobs
- Campaigns (only visible to Essentials and Enterprise customers)
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Applications
- You can set application email preferences for each job on the Job details tab, under Hiring team.
- To adjust your application email preferences, refer to Job Applicant Notification Preferences.
- Feed
- Employers
- Notes
- Messages
- Schools
- Career fairs
- Job reviews
- Questions and Answers
- Candidate matches
- Analytics (only visible to Essentials and Enterprise customers)