Both current students and alumni can access Handshake with a Student account. However, some features may only be available to those who are attending the current school year.
The features available to your account will depend on:
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Your account's connection with a school instance
- You may need to be approved by the school to access all of their offerings.
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Your school's partnership status with Handshake
- A school is considered a Handshake partner if the Career Services Center has chosen to manage your school's instance and use Handshake for additional features, such as managing Appointments, internships (via Experiences), First Destination Surveys, and more.
- Schools that haven't yet partnered with us may still have a school instance as part of the Handshake Open Network. Read more about our goals for Expanding Our Efforts to Help All Students Find Opportunity.
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Not connected to a school in Handshake?
If your account isn't connected to a school instance yet, you won't have access to all of their offerings until you are. Until then, you can manage your profile and access public career fairs on Handshake. This is typical if you have created a new account and your school request is pending.
For more information on how to get connected with a school, check out If You Can Only Access Profile and Fairs.
If you attend a Handshake-partner school
Once you're connected to a Handshake-partner school, you can access your school's career center via the left navigation menu.
Click Career Center to access your career services staff, schedule appointments, complete a First Destination Survey, take a survey, or check out additional resources your career center has created for you!
If you attend a school that hasn't yet partnered with Handshake
If you're connected to a school that hasn't yet partnered with Handshake, you can:
- Manage your profile
- Access fairs and events hosted by Handshake-partner schools that are public
- Apply to jobs posted by a subset of trusted employers
One way to determine if your school is a Handshake partner is by checking for the Career Center option in the left navigation menu.
If there's no Career Center available to you, and your request to connect isn't pending, this means your school is not a Handshake partner yet.
If you're enjoying your experience with Handshake, feel free to encourage your career center to formally partner with us and we can unlock additional benefits for you and your school!