Your Candidates

Your Candidates is a resource that enables Premium partners to identify candidates that have engaged with your company.

Premium features are for Handshake Premium accounts only. For more information, please check out this resource!

All role types except for Representatives and Recruiter (Standard) can access Your Candidates in Handshake. If you do not have access, reach out to your company's Owner or Admin to request a role change or permission. For more information, refer to Who is the Owner of My Company's Profile?

Topics: 

• Your Candidates
• Profile Engagement

Your Candidates

Click Candidates from the left navigation bar to access the Your Candidates page.  

Note: if Search Students is displayed instead of Candidates, this indicates that you do not have the required role and/or permission.

The Your Candidates page displays a list of students from your company's approved schools that have engaged with your company in Handshake via following your company on Handshake, applying for a job, RSVPing to an event or fair, or checking into an in-person event or booth at a fair.

Click on Apply filters to the far left of the page to open the Filters side sheet. 

Use the filters in the side sheet to identify candidates that have engaged with your company within a customized date range or via a specific activity or event. 

• Engaged Talent
  • Include talent who have (select desired engagement type)  
    • Any engagement with my company 
    • Applied to a job 
    • Followed me
    • RSVPed to an event 
    • Checked into an event (Event Manager required)
    • RSVPed to a career fair 
    • Checked into a career fair (Event Manager required)
  • Date range 
    • Start date (enter the date in mm/dd/yyyy format)
    • End date (enter the date in mm/dd/yyyy format)
  • Exclude talent who have not (choose engagement) 
    • Applied to a job 
    • Followed me 
    • RSVPed to an event
    • Checked into an event (Event Manager required)
    • RSVPed to a career fair 
    • Checked into a career fair (Event Manager required)
  • Outbound messaging activity 
    • You haven't messaged
    • Employer hasn't messaged 
• Segments 
  • Segments (add segment)
  • Keyword search (try name, university, or major)
• Labels
  • Include labels 
  • Exclude labels 

The engagement selected will prompt additional fields to complete. 

• Applied to a job 
  • Specify job (choose job)
• RSVPed to an event 
  • Specify event (choose event) 
• Checked into an event 
  • Specify an event (choose event)
• RSVPed to a career fair
  • Specify career fair (choose career fair)
• Checked into a career fair
  • Specify career fair (choose career fair)

Profile Engagement 

From the Candidates list, click on a candidate's name to view their profile. On the left of the page, below the Message button, the Engagement section displays historical interactions per student with your company: 

• Applications: Job title, date applied
• Messages: Date sent, the recruiter who sent the message
• Followed: Date followed 
• Events: Event name, date RSVPed, date checked in, session type (if virtual) 

Click on each hyperlinked activity to view additional details, if desired.

On the candidate's profile, you can view and add notes, add or create a new label, and message the candidate. 

Bulk actions 

On the Your Candidates page, click on the box to the far left of Name to complete the following bulk tasks. 

• Manage labels
• Bulk message 

Click Select all to select all candidates (across all pages). 

To clear your selection, click Clear all. 

Click on the box to the far left of the candidate's name to individually select candidate(s). 

Click Manage labels to add or remove a label from the selected candidate(s). Refer to Best Practice: Use Labels to Manage Applicants.

Click Bulk message to compose and send a message to the selected candidate(s). Learn How to Send a Student a Message.