Handshake's EDU partners can highlight employers and job postings that students may find valuable through collections. These are some ways to curate your students' experience on Handshake.
Career Services users have discretion over which employers and job postings to highlight to their students – each EDU partner will have a unique set of guidelines, dependent on how they wish to showcase these to their students.
Once you've decided to choose an employer or job posting, add them to specific collections that highlight to your students why the employer or job posting is unique. These can be removed from collections at any time.
After adding employers and job postings to collections, filter on the added employers and job postings to collections in other areas of Handshake and share direct links to collections with students.
For the student's experience please refer to Career Center Collections at your School.
If you'd like to learn about creating and customizing collections, please refer to our other article Creating and Customizing Collections.
Note: When adding or removing job postings from collections, you should be aware of the job inclusion rules. If you've set up a collection with certain rules to add job postings, the jobs will be automatically added to that collection. Any job postings you manually remove will not be automatically added to the collection again. You will need to manually add them if you want them to appear in the collection again.
Topics:
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How to add employers to collections
- Add employers individually
- Add employers in bulk
- Add employers through labels
- How to add job postings to collections
- Exploring collections
- Employers and Jobs tabs
- Filtering on employers in collections
- Sharing collections with students
- Considerations when adding employers or job postings to collections
How to add employers to collections
Career Services users with the “Manage Collections” permission will be able manage which employers are included in your institution's collections. To learn more about setting up permissions, please refer to School Settings: Career Services Staff Roles and Permissions.
You can add employers to collections on the Approved Employers page. To access this page, click Employers from the left navigation bar in Handshake. The list of employers will automatically filter to list approved employers.
Decide which employers you'd like to highlight for students. You can select employers individually or in bulk, as outlined below.
Add employers individually
1. From the list of approved employers, click the three dots menu in the row, to the far right of the employer name, then click Edit collections from the drop-down menu
2. In the Summary Side Sheet, check the box next to the relevant collection(s).
3. Click the Save button to save your changes.
Add employers in bulk
1. From the list of employers, put a check in the box to the left of each employer's name you'd like to add to a specific collection.
2. Click More from the column header bar, in the upper-right of the table, then click Add to collection.
3. In the popup that appears, check the box next to the relevant collection(s).
4. Click the Add button to save your changes.
Add employers through labels
First, provide the label to your employers. You can do this by navigating to the Employers page and selecting the checkbox for each approved employer you’d like to provide a label for. Then, select Manage labels at the top of the list of employers to open up a pop up box.
You can add an existing label or create a new label using this box. Once you’ve chosen the label, select Apply.
Next, head over to the Collections page and choose one of the collections.
Select Set collection rules in the upper-right corner to open the side sheet.
Use the search bar under Auto-include employers with these labels to select the label(s) to apply to this collection. Select Save in the upper-right corner to add these labels.
Note: Any employers added to this label in the future will automatically be added to this collection unless the employer label is removed from this collection.
How to add job postings to collections
If you'd like to add a job to a collection, you may do so by navigating to the Job postings page.
Note: It may take 24 hours for changes to job postings to update on the student side when changes are made.
Add jobs individually
Navigate to the Approved tab on the job postings page and select the three dots on the far right of the screen. From here, select Edit collections.
After the side sheet opens, you can choose one or more collections to add this job posting to. Then click the Save button to proceed.
Add job postings in bulk
On the Approved tab on the job postings page, you can check the boxes on the left of the job postings you'd like to add to a collection. Then select More and choose Add to collection.
The side sheet lets you choose one or more collections to add this job posting to. Click the Save button to finalize your choices.
Exploring collections
You can locate the collections your school already has by selecting Collections in the left navigation bar.
The list of collections are alphabetized from A to Z.
Select a collection group to explore how many employers are listed in the collection. The list will provide information about the employer's name, location, the date they were added to this collection, the number of students following the employer, and their active jobs.
Employers and Jobs tabs
The Employers tab lists all employers that were added to this custom collection. You can sort these employers based on the headers provided.
Job Inclusion rules
Select Edit Job Rules in the top right corner of the screen to update the job inclusion settings. These settings decide which jobs are automatically added to this collection - contingent upon the employers already added to this collection.
Learn more about the settings under the Set up collection section of Creating and Customizing Collections.
Remove employers from the collection using the side sheet
Select an employer to open that employer’s side sheet. The side sheet provides general information about that employer. You can select Remove from collection to remove this employer.
Remove employers from the collection using the list of employers
The list of employers on the Employer tab can be removed from this collection. You can remove individual employers by selecting the X on the far right of the of the employer name
To remove employers in bulk, select the checkboxes to the left of the employer names and click Remove on the top left of the table.
Remove job postings from the collection using the side sheet
Select the jobs tab to pull up the list of job postings that were added to this collection.
Select a job postings to open up the side sheet. Choose Remove from collection to remove this job posting.
Remove job postings from the collection using the list of job postings
You can remove individual job postings by selecting the X on the far right of the job posting name.
To remove job postings in bulk, select the checkboxes to the left of the job posting names and select Remove on the top left of the table.
Filtering on employers and job postings in collections
After adding employers to collections, you can filter on employers and job postings added to collections in other areas of Handshake, including:
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Jobs in collections within the Jobs page
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Contacts from employers in collections within the Contacts page
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Employer alumni from employers in collections within the Alumni Hub
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Events from employers in collections within the Events experience
Sharing collections with students
Students will have access to all collections via the Career Center page. If you'd like share the collections with students you can use the copy shareable link feature on the individual collections page, located on the top right corner of the page, after selecting the three dots.
You can also use Targeted Emails to share collections with students.
Sharing collections with students through Targeted Emails
When creating your Targeted Email, select Collections from the Handshake Content section, under Job.
In the popup that appears, click the dropdown and select the relevant collection, then click Save.
Menu option for Handshake Content - Collection:
Considerations when adding employers or job postings to collections
Employers won't be able to:
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view in Handshake which EDU partners have highlighted them.
- EDU partners may decide to share this information with Employers if they so wish.
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view collections or anything to indicate they are part of an collection.
- Employers may be exposed to collections through student accounts (informally), while exploring related EDU Help Center content, or if Career Services shares the information with employers directly.
When editing a collection, you can choose to target the collection based on school major or college. Students that meet that targeting criteria will have access to the collection. Learn more about this under the collection targeting section of Creating and Customizing Collections.
If employers are curious about the process, they should reach out to EDU partners to learn about their process for deciding how they set up their collections.