Handshake’s mission is to help everyone find a great job and build a meaningful career whether you’re starting restarting or jump starting your career. No experience connections or luck required this video will give a demo of some of the major first steps you will have engaging with handshake including logging in for the first time completing your profile starting your job search and more. Let’s jump into how you can get started connecting with your career center and employers today first let’s explore what it looks like when a student logs into their handshake account for the first time once you log into handshake you will see this screen where you are asked to agree to handshakes terms of service and privacy policy please note both of these policies can be found on handshake’s website if you would like to review this more closely additionally you are prompted to add your graduation date this is highly encouraged because employers will be interested in this information once you have completed these two steps you can click the green get started button to continue the onboarding process next you are able to set your profile visibility afterwards you will now be brought to a set of onboarding questions related to demographic information and your career interests please note the information that you put on the career interest questions here drive the job recommendations that you see so the more information you include on this page the more relevant your recommendations are to be and the better your experience is going to be on handshake here’s a quick overview of what these questions look like as you complete the onboarding questions this will begin to help you build your handshake profile by asking you a series of questions about your skills relevant courses gpa clubs organizations as well as work and volunteer experience if you ever want to change or update your career interests or profile settings you can go up to the right hand corner and select my career interests and that will take you to the career interest page where you’ll see very similar questions the exact same questions that we just went through in the onboarding process so if you want to add additional industries or change some of the job functions you’re interested in you can do that on this page as well next we’ll be exploring the steps that you need to take to complete your profile in handshake to navigate to the student profile you will click on the account icon in the upper right hand corner of the page and then you’ll select my profile it is likely that your school has preloaded some information into your profile as you work through completing your profile if you would like to edit or add any more information you can click on the pencil icon next to the section you want to update for example there is a pencil icon that appears when you hover over a section such as this one here to help make profile completion easier. We’ve added options on the left that students can use to help walk you through your profile you’ll see that the action items are highlighted in blue and these are clickable when there’s something that needs to be completed you can also add a profile photo by clicking on add or edit photo students are able to build your profile from an existing resume as well you can take this step by uploading a new document to do this you would click on the account icon in the top right hand corner and then select my documents on this page you can add a new document using this blue button here there is already a document uploaded if you click to view your document you will see the option to build profile from resume if this is selected navigate back to the profile and you will see there are a number of experiences and skills that have transferred over from the resume that need to be approved in order to be listed on the profile now that you have completed your profile let’s learn more about how to follow employers and apply to jobs you can click on the employers tab to browse and follow employers you are interested in as you see here you’re able to use filters and keywords to specify your search and follow employers you are excited about next check out the jobs page and start to apply for job opportunities similar to the employers tab you’re able to use filters to find jobs that are most pertinent to you now get ready to apply follow the quick and easy prompts to apply to jobs that meet your interests finally you can log into handshake and access your profile employers jobs and more by downloading our mobile app using the QR code on screen now you’re ready to get started on handshake reach out to your career center if you have any questions and good luck on your career journey.
