Posting Jobs & Internships on Handshake

1. Create your personal employer account here (use this Help article if needed)
2. Confirm your email address (you will receive an email for this)
3. Request to join your “company profile” (you will automatically be invited to do this after confirming your email)
4. Receive approval to join your employer
5. Create and post your job(s)!

1. Create your employer account here (use this Help article if needed)
   • Note: This is your personal profile as an employer contact on Handshake, not the “company” or employer profile
2. Confirm your email address (you will receive an email for this)
3. You will be prompted to request to join a company or employer profile – do NOT take this step. Once you have clicked the button in your email to confirm your address, proceed to step 4
4. Reach out to the Launch Center (career.services@svu.edu) to ask that they create a new employer profile for your organization
   • Note: Asking the Launch Center to create your employer profile is much simpler than doing so yourself. New employer profiles not created by a college representative are subject to more extensive background checking to confirm that you are a legitimate employer. If the school creates it, though, Handshake assumes they know you are legitimate and can skip a step, helping you get rolling more quickly
5. Once the Launch Center has created the employer profile, they will add you and send confirmation
   • If you refresh the page or re-navigate to Handshake at this point, you should automatically be in the employer profile
6. Create and post your job(s)!

1. Reach out to the Launch Center (email the Director or career.services@svu.edu) to confirm that there is an existing profile
2. If there is a relevant existing profile, follow the instructions above for if your team already uses Handshake
3. Once you complete the step to confirm your email address, notify your Launch Center contact so they can add you directly to the correct employer profile. If needed, they can help get you designated as the profile owner

Handshake is an online career platform intended specifically for university students. It is used by hundreds of universities of all sizes around the country to help students search and apply for job and internship opportunities and navigate career and professional development-related events, and to help Career Services departments better track and manage opportunities, events, and data related to them.

Handshake has an excellent Help Center with an effective search function that is a good starting point for answers to most basic questions related to creating and managing opportunities on the platform. However, if additional troubleshooting or support on strategy is needed, the Launch Center is happy to answer questions and brainstorm together – contact the Launch Center director or career.services@svu.edu.

Technically, yes. However, there are relatively few opportunities that are both unpaid and legal, and we strongly recommend paid internships and jobs whenever possible to help open access to critical developmental opportunities for those who may not be able to pay for their schooling without working a paid job.

1. Limited volunteer work that is not considered to be overly developmental in nature could be posted on Handshake as long as it is very clear from the posting that it is not a paid opportunity. However, true volunteer efforts are often better shared through our JustServe club president and service senator, two student leaders on campus who help connect students with service opportunities. Feel free to reach out to career.services@svu.edu for an introduction if you are unfamiliar with these leaders
2. For-credit internships can sometimes be unpaid, particularly if they are clearly more for the benefit of the student than the hiring team. A for-credit internship needs to be approved and confirmed to be a high-quality enough experience for the student. External employers must help ensure that if a student accepts an unpaid internship for which they intend to receive college credit, the student contacts the Registrar’s office immediately (registrar@svu.edu) to confirm details

1. Spend a few minutes thinking about the questions you would be asking about a job if you were a student, and add those to the description
   • Some, such as pay rate, weekly number of hours expected, and required year in school (if applicable) are standard fields that you will be able to fill in as you create the job
   • Others should typically be mentioned in the written job description (such as exact shifts required, context about the types of students who are typically a fit for this opportunity, any relevant information about holiday hours, unexpected perks of working in your organization, etc.)
2. If there are black-and-white qualifying factors, such as availability during a specific day, time of day, or specific major, it may make sense to add those clearly toward the top of the written job description to ensure you do not receive irrelevant applications (unfortunately, many job seekers do not read the entire job description – so sometimes it is in your best interest to make disqualifiers obvious from the get-go)
3. Some recruiters include an instruction at the bottom of a written job description on Handshake for interested applicants to email them their application materials. We recommend and ask that unless absolutely necessary, you do not take this approach. It adds confusion and complexity to the process for both hiring managers and students, and prevents important data from being tracked in Handshake

The Launch Center has several methods for getting opportunities in front of students, including the following:

• Adding tags on profiles of employers with a direct SVU connection and/or on specific jobs to highlight opportunities in specific career fields or locations, which provides filtering and job alert options to help students find postings relevant to them
• Including jobs and internships in emails and/or Knight App (the SVU app) posts to students
• Training students to set up email alerts for job opportunities through Handshake
• Highlighting opportunities on the Launch Center display screen
• Occasionally sharing specific opportunities with relevant faculty members to pass along to students

1. If you have not already, close the position
2. Select “Move to hired” on the selected student’s application
3. Follow the remainder of your organization’s formal hiring processes