Product Announcement—December 3, 2021

Coming Soon

For Career Services...

FDS Dashboards

We’ve built over a dozen new first destination survey (FDS) dashboards to help our US partners more easily segment, visualize, and share student outcome data. The dashboards allow your team to analyze trends across outcome types, student demographics, location, industry, major, college and more—plus, extensive filtering options will help you quickly drill down to unique subsets of your student body.

• Learn more about the new FDS dashboards here.
• The new FDS dashboards are now available for institutions that signed up to participate in the beta period. The dashboards will launch for all US institutions in the coming weeks.

Targeted Emails Drag & Drop

Drag and drop functionality in Targeted Emails will launch for all institutions in the coming weeks. With drag and drop, you can easily rearrange text, images, banners, buttons, and more within your emails.

• Drag & drop is currently live for all institutions participating in the beta launch.

Employer and job approval re-requests

We’re building a new toggle you can use when declining an employer or job to indicate that you’re open to approving if certain changes are made. Employers must include a comment explaining how the changes were addressed in order to re-request approval.

Additional Student Email Addresses—Reporting Updates

Alongside the launch of additional email address support for students on December 13th, we’re updating Insights to allow your team to differentiate between a student's institutional email (which you import) and their primary email (where students receive emails from Handshake and Targeted Emails from your team). This will provide an easy way to see how many students have opted to update their primary email address.

• Review the full list of updates to Insights here. If your team uses scheduled reports to export Handshake data to an external platform via SFTP or Amazon S3, please review these updates closely. Because we're updating the names of Insights fields, you may need to alert your IT team to adjust the import process.

For Students…

Additional Email Addresses

Starting on December 13th, students will be able to add additional email addresses to their account and opt to use them to receive communications from your team and from Handshake. We’ll make small tweaks to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to account for this launch. We also plan to start experimenting with prompts in emails that encourage recent or upcoming graduates to update their email in Handshake.

• Read more about this update here.
• Watch recordings of additional email address office hours sessions here.

For Employers...

School Recommendations

We’re building a new feature to help employers better target their job postings. School Recommendations will suggest more institutions an employer should post a job to, based on the qualifications they’ve set (and how they align with an institution’s student population). It will also suggest institutions the employer is not yet connected to, prompting them to reach out for approval.