Use Handshake to help your students

Are your students asking career questions? Get them started by using Handshake.

Handshake is the University of Arizona’s career management tool, offering UA students and alumni access to jobs, internships, on-campus research experiences, and all things career and experiential learning related.

How Students Can Use Handshake:

  • Discover and apply for on-campus jobs, local part-time jobs, internships, and full-time work.
  • Get messaged by employers that specifically want to hire Wildcats.
  • Message peers for tips and advice on internships, interviews, and more.
  • Find all the career-related, resume-building events and programs on campus, all in one place.

How Faculty and Staff Can Use Handshake:

  • Hire students for internships, part-time jobs, research positions and other on-campus job opportunities.
  • Customize a profile with attributes similar to students in your department to see what students see on Handshake.
  • Help your students with their internship or job searches.
  • Create and manage career-related events.
  • Show your students what Handshake can do for them, and encourage them to activate their accounts.

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Why Handshake

Handshake offers students a personalized, user-friendly interface to find jobs and internships, schedule appointments with career educators, learn about career fairs and employer events, and create a rich profile that helps them stand out to employers.

Handshake offers career development staff:

  • Access to a high-quality network of employers with one click.
  • Ability to create filtered job and internship feeds from Handshake to your websites.
  • Student communication tools including pinning content to drive student engagement with job opportunities, career resources and events.
  • Appointment management tools that integrate with Outlook and other calendars.
  • Event management tools for career fairs, workshops and more.
  • On-campus interviewing scheduling tool.
  • Analytics and reporting tools.

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Before you request a Handshake account, consider what your goals are, or take our assessment survey to determine how Handshake can best assist with your career-related tasks: Handshake Campus Partner Needs Assessment

Student Demo AccountEmployer AccountCareer Services Account
Basic Account AccessLimited Account AccessHighest Level Access
This account type allows you to see what students see, find jobs relevant to your students, or help students navigate Handshake. Single-sign-on enabled.Create an employer user account affiliated with an on-campus employer account (your department) to post and manage jobs and hire students.Request this account type if you will be configuring events, career fairs, departmental internship workflows, or other administrative functions in Handshake.

STUDENT ACCOUNT VIEW ACCESS

Create a student account and see Handshake from a student perspective.

Step 1: Go to Handshake Faculty/Staff Student Access Request Form and submit the form.

Step 2: When you receive a confirmation email from Handshake that your account has been created, go to https://arizona.joinhandshake.com.

Step 3: Sign in using your UA NetID credentials.

Step 4: You will be taken to a page with several questions, you will want to scroll to the very bottom of the page and click “Skip All”.  This will give you a wider range of search options within Jobs and Events.

Before You Start: Talk to your HR Representative about Handshake

In many cases your department or organization may already have an On-campus Employer Account set up in Handshake and your HR Representative is the “owner”. It is important that you belong to the correct employer so your job posting is with the correct employer. If your department does not have an employer account on Handshake, ask your HR representative to create an on-campus employer account.

Create your account

1. To register for a new User Account on Handshake, please copy and paste the link below into your web browser:

https://app.joinhandshake.com/login?school_approval_token=S-9U5XUY-xcF7Hid2rmC2R0OtgjRqaHbHr6JRRv2bkPnfSfVShsKWQ

2. New Users click on “Sign Up for an Account” in upper right hand corner.

3.Type of account you want to create: Employer

4. From the Employer Registration screen, fill out the fields to Sign Up as an Employer, and click on “Sign Up”

5. Complete the additional information, in particular, “Tell us the types of students you wish to recruit”, and click on “Next: Employer Guidelines”

6. Read, and agree to, the Handshake Employer Guidelines; indicate that you are not a 3rd party recruiter, and click on ‘Next: Confirm Email’

Confirm your Account

1. You should receive a confirmation screen asking you to check your email inbox for a link to confirm your email address.

2. From the email, click on “Confirm Email”, which will take you to the Handshake log-in screen.

3. Login with your University of Arizona email and password.

4. When you log in you will see the screen “Join Company.” You will want to type in the name of your company as given to you by your HR representative instead of requesting to join the University of Arizona main account, this will result in a decline of the request.

If you do not see your company, please check with your HR representative.

Linking a student/alumni account to an Employer Account

You can find instructions on Handshake to help you be able to link these accounts together.  You can find these in the Handshake Help Center, How to Create an Employer Account Linked to Your Student/Alumni Account.

CAREER ADMIN ACCESS

This higher level of access is designated for user(s) who will be configuring events, career fairs, departmental internship workflows, and other administrative career-related functions in Handshake.

NEW ACCESS REQUESTS

Step 1: Fill out our Handshake Campus Partner Needs Assessment form.

Step 2: Consultation with SECD. We will help guide you to the correct access roles to accomplish your tasks and goals in Handshake.

Once you have completed Steps 1 and 2, you are ready to request your Career Admin account.

NetID/UA Email – Your official email.arizona.edu address is used when requesting access to Handshake.  We also grant access to listservs and other resources where the NetID is required.

FERPA – This training must be completed prior to access being granted.  To complete the online training go to https://www.registrar.arizona.edu/personal-information/ferpa-tutorial prior to requesting access.

COMPLETE THE REQUEST NEW ACCESS FORM

MODIFY CURRENT ACCESS

If your job role has changed or are moving to another UA department but will still require some level of Handshake access and you need to request modification to your access (add/delete), please go to the Handshake Access Request/Modification Form.

TERMINATE ACCESS

If you are leaving your position at the UA, please complete the Handshake Access Request/Modification Form.

If you are the owner in Handshake for your department, please follow the Transfer of Ownership process prior to your departure.

If you already have a student or alumni account in Handshake, you can link that account to your employer user account. You can find instructions on Handshake to help you be able to link these accounts together.  You can find these in the Handshake Help Center, How to Create an Employer Account Linked to Your Student/Alumni Account.