Handshake Employer FAQs

Both in-person and virtual campus interviews can be arranged on Handshake. If your team would like support promoting a position, collecting resumes or scheduling candidates, review our Campus Interviews page.

Posting full-time jobs and internships

• Register and post positions (full-time and internships) on Handshake, our career management platform. Learn more about posting a job here.

Log into Handshake and click on on your name in the upper right hand corner to update your profile. If you have questions, email ucc-recruiting@umd.edu. 

Log into Handshake and update posting details or adjust the deadline date under the “Jobs” tab. 

• If you've received an invite from a school or a colleague, you can follow the link to take you to the account creation process
• If you're signing up without an invite, you can create an employer account on the Handshake employer registration page.
• If you're having difficulties receiving the confirmation email, try checking your spam and junk folders to ensure that emails are not being filtered out. Add Handshake to your email contacts or address book, and lastly, check with your IT department and ask them to unblock Handshake or check for quarantined emails. Then, resend the confirmation email once you've taken these steps. You can resend the confirmation by logging into Handshake and using the link provided

• First, select the "keep me logged in" box on Handshake to ensure that your page doesn't time out/log you out during the creation process
• If you do not see the Create New Company button, or your company already has a Handshake profile but needs to create additional profiles for different locations or divisions, please contact the Handshake Support Team for further assistance
• Creating New Company Profile Process:
  1. Once you have registered for your Handshake user account and are on Step 3 of 4 - Join Your Company, start by using the search box located in the middle of the screen to see if your company's profile already exists on Handshake
  2. If your company doesn't appear in the search results, click the Create New Company button, located on the right side of the screen
  3. If you are not seeing the Create New Company button, please contact Support to have them open a domain space for you to create a new company with your domain
  4. The next steps will be adding all company information (Name, Industry, Branding Images, Location, Website, etc.). Once all is complete, click Create New Company at the bottom of the page

Employer accounts can not be approved for several reasons, be sure to verify that these aspects of your Company foundation are correct

• Working Email Address
• Working Company Website
• Matching your Company address/website with the one that is posted in Handshake
• Matching your User Email domain with your Corporate /expected domain
• Proper role assignment: Be sure that you're not misleading with your job postings. Strictly commission based, door to door sales/cold calling, multilevel marketing, and unpaid internships that read more like part-time jobs will be flagged

Schools have the ability to directly provide feedback to you regarding your Company details via your Company profile; a notification will come to your account once the message is sent

Click links for step-by-step instructions on Job Postings, Registering for In-Person/Virtual fairs, posting on-campus interviews, and request events. * Each of these action items is located on your Handshake side panel (far left of your screen).

A trust score is a score generated for each employer within the Handshake system that measures their level of activity on Handshake. This type of activity can determine how likely a company is to proactively message students. *Your trust score can be found on your Company Profile page, only viewable to you. Students cannot see trust scores when viewing your Company profile page.

Trust Scores are calculated using these bases 

• Your activity level on the platform
• The number of approvals/declines from various schools
• How long your company has been on the platform
• Company profile completeness
• Whether or not your company has a valid web address

• Once you're logged in click on your name in the top right-hand corner of your Handshake Account; then click on "Your Profile"
• On the My Profile page you will see three tabs folders on the far right directly below your name (Profile, Account, and Calendar); select the "Account" tab
• On the Account page, you will see four folders on the left side of the page directly next to the side panel (Account Information, Notification Preferences, Status Messaging Preferences and Create Notes from Email)
• To select/determine what activities/ user actions you would like to be notified about, and how, click Notification Preferences.
• To customize Application pending, reviewed, and declined messages click Status Messaging Preferences
• Shortcuts
  • Shortcut to Message Inbox- click the Message Bubble Icon at the top of your screen on the same line as the "Your Employer's School" tab
  • Notification Screen/Preferences shortcut - click the Globe next to the Message icon and "Your Employer's School" tab
  • Calendar Shortcut- click the Calendar icon next to the Notification and Message icons mentioned above
• If there are any Administrator Role issues contact Handshake Support

To manage your relationships within Handshake utilize your side panel located on the far left of your screen. Under your Relationships header, you will see Search Students, Schools, and Contacts.

Click your Help tab (directly to the left of your name/login tab), where Contact Support, Help Center, and Webinar options will appear. Select Webinar. Another screen will pop up (login tab at the top far right of your screen) with Handshake University, where you will be able to access additional interactive Handshake training.