Handshake was a big help in my job search after I graduated. There is a such a wide variety of remote and on-site jobs to choose to apply for. You may get rejected by many but don't get discouraged. Continue to put in applications to any job that interests you and eventually an opportunity will present itself. I now work as an Online Data Analyst for Telus thanks to Handshake!
Rodrigo Polidano
No help button to submit issues or report fraudulent job postings. The app used to allow me to apply to jobs but seeing more difficult and crashes lately. Hopefully it gets resolved so it can go back to being best job posting platform.
Logan Evans
I genuinely don't understand the point of this app, none of the jobs are actually relevant even if you're specific about what you're looking for (ex. Requires a medical degree despite me putting in my BS degree; showing me a job nowhere near my location). This is both with email notifications and search. It's so infuriating.
Anthony Salierno
I can't say it's bad, it's how I got my first internship and it makes mass applications really easy. Looking at the 300+ jobs I applied to however, only 10% even viewed my application. This isn't really an app issue but more of an industry problem. What can be improved, is the very annoying bug I've been having on android that it doesn't remember my resume and I need to re-upload it for each job. This feature worked fine about 6 months ago so I'm unsure what happened.
Madison Andriliunas
You can apply to countless jobs but options are limited as this app is only but so widely used. Solicitation is common especially for teaching positions and "no degree needed" positions. There needs to be a more verifiable way for recruiters to only solicit actually relevant majors. I am in physical science and have had countless sales, real estate, finance, and irrelevant teaching positions pushed on me. There needs to be a way to report spam from them
Katnip NeedsNaps
Absolutely appalling app! The past 2 meetings with my uni have been through this and both times it wouldn't let me join my video appointment - it kept taking me back to the feed section! I thought maybe logging out and logging in would fix the issue but instead it won't even log me back in, insisting on sending me a verification code that SURPRISE never arrives! Unfortunately the careers service at my uni only use this awful thing and refuse to book appointments any other way! Totally useless!
Mark Schomburg
Most of the recruiters out there are bots. They send you automated messages and pretend to have read your resume, and don't respond to your messages back. It is very difficult to report an agency, and the one time I did nothing was resolved. There is no way to block people on this app, so I am getting spammed from 'recruiters' for jobs I am not interested in. The only reason I got this app in the first place was because my college's career services recommended it...
Tiffany Morgan
I wish there was a way to filter out messages we don't want. I filled out my job and location preferences and all I get are messages about jobs that are too far away or in an industry I have no interest in. Employers pay zero attention! They pick who to message based on major and that's it. I'm assuming it's just mass messaging and the person on the other end isn't actually reviewing profiles and preferences. I get a lot of messages, all irrelevant, so it's annoying.
Alyssa Hill
Hasn't recommended me a job/internship even remotely related to my major, sets my class to sophomore every time I try to set it to freshman, and doesn't even show applicable jobs/internships no matter how many filters I set. I don't understand what the point of this app is if I have to manually scroll through listings, can't upload a resume, and it doesn't show the requirements for the listing unless I spend a minute or 2 scrolling through the description. A waste of time.
Tristin Nelsen
Most of the messages and notifications I get are completely irrelevant to me. I've tried to adjust things by editing my profile and such, but there doesn't seem to be any sort of algorithm or targeted recommendations. The job board and search functionality is unsophisticated and frequently advertises jobs that were filled months or years ago.
