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!
Reviews for Handshake Jobs & New Careers
← Back to Handshake Jobs & New CareersNo 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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
Want to get $35,000/yr for a sales job? If no, then don't bother with this app. I have a full profile with my degrees and preferences set, but I still get 2+ messages each day from recruiters for sales positions. The messages are annoying ,especially because my profile indicates no desire to move to AZ for sales (which is not one of my interests). I have yet to have a meaningful conversation with people in my field.
Seems like it would be helpful - If only it was accurate. When I connected from my school, it incorrectly listed my major & I couldn't find how to change that at first. When I finally figured it out (Or so I thought), I kept getting messages from perhaps well-meaning recruiter accounts; however, they are recounting inaccurate information about me that I'm guessing they are seeing from my profile, including location & job goals. The concept seems nice but these inaccuracies are very frustrating.
This app is basically spam/harassment. I set the job notification parameters to only be to 3 locations, but I get a notification for EVERY SINGLE job in my field no matter where it is. It's at least 10 notifications a day. When emailing support, they told me to adjust my notifications (already had, doesn't work) or to turn off messages from employers (never been a problem). It's absurd for me to be notified of every job posting on the opposite side of country when I'm not relocating.
The app has a great design and offers many job opportunities. However, I have yet to receive any responses from employers. As an Information Technology student, I keep getting job offers for teaching, military, and law enforcement positions, which are unrelated to my field. Recruiters should be more attentive when reaching out to students to ensure the opportunities align with their qualifications and career goals.
If you favorite a job, you'll never see it / find it again until it's about to expire. You would think that'd be one of the easiest things to find. The jobs recommended rarely have anything to do with my interests, education, or location. The emails I get with new/expiring jobs link to my browser and not to the app. The last two emails I've recieved, I've searched for the job and the app can't find it. Now, I can't log in. It only wants a temp passcode that it won't send, not my password?
This is a great app with a great UI, but the whole thing is just for companies to message college students about underpaid internships, spam you with messages for career events, and never follow up with prospects. Schools wasting their money on this program would be better off creating a SharePoint to house information. Its a shame because it has so much potential, but it's wasted.
You can't set parameters for distance from a particular location in your filters. On the website I could go within 5 miles, 15 Mile, 20 miles Etc. It is extremely bothersome that I cannot do this on the app, this is a very small implementation and should be completed immediately. I have to scroll through a thousand jobs instead of a hundred due to this. Huge waste of time.
It's a slightly simpler LinkedIn parallel app, usable for students. I don't think most of the opportunities that are coming up are in my field, so I have to search. I definitely want to say that the ability to *block* specific keywords would be really nice, or block specific messages to my inbox. (I want to block anything that has AI involved, and I keep getting emails from the same two companies after saying I'm not interested, and they're not even my field) 3/5: Works, but not helpful so far
Good app, shows jobs in my area and much further, even when you enter in your mile range you'd like to stay within. Making things a little easier to navigate would be nice, such as being taken straight to the job post when I receive the "new job listing" update in my email. Instead, I have to go searching for it on my own and I don't always find it. Otherwise it's a good and helpful app.
Because you can't set job preferences for on-site or remote, and aren't matched by your actual resume skills or degrees, I often get "matched" or messaged by recruiters for jobs I can't apply to. They're either on-site and half a country away, or require degrees I don't have. Most of the recruiters are just copy pasting messages anyway and not actually engaging. So, this platform has not been very useful for my job search, and I'm very disappointed in it.