Handshake Jobs & Careers Reviews

HandshakeJobsCareers is ok, and the results do match well for search terms unlike some other job apps. My complaint is that the search area is way too wide. I’m north of Baltimore and my results are for DC and northern VA. The website lets you narrow it by distance but HandshakeJobsCareers does not. I hope this changes because otherwise I can see this being a good, useful app. I just don’t have time to look through all these jobs I’d never apply to.

I downloaded HandshakeJobsCareers with the hopes of finding a better career move. However, upon having HandshakeJobsCareers for over a year, I have been unable to use HandshakeJobsCareers as to what it is intended to be used for. When I first downloaded HandshakeJobsCareers, it worked well, gave a lot of insight on the jobs to come. I was happy. Few months into HandshakeJobsCareers , it started slowing up, crashing, etc. so I checked for an update. If there was an update, I would update immediately. Then, few days later same issues, this time on top of the crashing and slowing up, I would click on an interested job and it would freeze on that particular job and only way to unfreeze HandshakeJobsCareers is to close out the entire app. To this day, I’m annoyed with HandshakeJobsCareers and deleted it completely from my phone. Would I re-download it? Maybe 🤷🏾‍♀️ hopefully it will be less crashing and freezing.

HandshakeJobsCareers is okay in the idea, but the execution is not there. I dislike the fact that internships won’t specify what year in school they are looking for on the details page of the job. I have applied and then gotten turned down because I didn’t fit the graduation date requirements (as many were never openly listed). My app also keeps crashing when I try to change the job preferences. If I try to deselect the roles, the Handshake app will crash and close up. I have logged out, deleted HandshakeJobsCareers , and restarted my phone a few times and it’s still doing this. Very frustrating overall and will be a bit useless if I can’t actually get it to stop crashing.

I just updated HandshakeJobsCareers because I was looking at a job, and suddenly kept getting the error message "Something went wrong. Please try again." However, now that I've updated HandshakeJobsCareers , I cannot get past the "Search for Schools" page. I type in the first two letters of my school, then get the same error message: "Something went wrong. Please try again."

I tried turning my phone off and then back on again, but that didn't work. I also tried deleting HandshakeJobsCareers and then reinstalling it, but that didn't work, either. This is really frustrating. HandshakeJobsCareers was working fine until five minutes ago. Now it's not working at all. Please fix this ASAP! Thank you.

HandshakeJobsCareers needs allot of work still. First off there isn’t a log off button anywhere so if you signed up with the wrong email then good luck on fixing that. There are many things the website has that cannot be accessed through HandshakeJobsCareers such as viewing other students in your school. As for the actual job searching tool it is far too wide. I live in Texas. Denton to be exact yet I’m seeing jobs in other states. HandshakeJobsCareers has potential but I’m honestly surprised that it seems as if it wasn’t tested thoroughly. What I recommend for you all to do is ask various students all the problems we are having with your website. A simple survey email should suffice.

I keep getting this message pop up everytime I’m in HandshakeJobsCareers and it can’t find my school in search anymore. I deleted HandshakeJobsCareers and re-downloaded it again and the issue persists stil.
HandshakeJobsCareers was working FINE all this time and then this issue idk what’s wrong with it.

May 20,2021

My school uses handshake to connect students with jobs so I got HandshakeJobsCareers because I’m a senior and am actively looking for jobs. HandshakeJobsCareers is good but you can’t delete messages and there is no setting that allows you to only allow a certain type of messages. I keep getting messages from irrelevant jobs that have nothing to do with my major and barely require a degree. HandshakeJobsCareers just needs better functionality. Otherwise, it’s a decent tool for job searching.

I cannot see what I type when adding a description to my job experiences. The description text field is hidden by my keyboard when I tap to type something. What I mean is the field doesn’t move up to allow me to see what I type and also you cannot copy/paste anything either since you can’t highlight or long press in the text field since it’s not visible on screen when typing. This is such a huge oversight and I cannot be descriptive about my experiences which is troubling as potential employers won’t know what I did/do in my past or current experiences which defeats the purpose of HandshakeJobsCareers. Please fix this blatant and critical issue.

HandshakeJobsCareers infuriates me. Hopefully this scathing review gets the attention of the devs because using this stupid app should not be this frustrating. I download HandshakeJobsCareers and it asks for me email. I type in my school .edu email and wait for the temp password email from this piece of garbage, but because HandshakeJobsCareers is trash, I never receive an email! How the hell am I supposed to take advantage of handshake as an iOS app the same way other students can if I can't even ACCESS IT. There are no options to ask for help, connect with customer service, or any other avenue to be able to get access to my account on HandshakeJobsCareers . Such a shameful design decision.

I really enjoy the different aspects of HandshakeJobsCareers however I find when messaging one on one with employers or talent acquisition managers that I can’t click in the chat the links that you’re trying to send to me it always sends a message saying there’s an error and to try again and every time I do it repeats the same message. Then end up having to ask the employer or the person I’m talking to on chat to send me the link separately.

I received an email for a virtual interview on handshake. When I click the link handshake opens and tells me that I don’t have permission to do “that”. It doesn’t tell me what “that” is and they don’t have a customer support number either. You have to fish around HandshakeJobsCareers until you manage to find where you can send an email to them. I still haven’t heard back from Handshake since I’ve sent an email. Employers please do not use HandshakeJobsCareers for interviews etc. customer support is trash and the links they provide won’t allow everyone to open it.

Used to be pretty good, but now it just asks me to create a new account even though I already have a .edu with my university.

Update: Apparently, my university changed the email to be used with Handshake. It is still the same for receiving emails, but with some added characters for Handshake...some sort of alias perhaps? I don’t know the reason of this, but now it works.

Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with HandshakeJobsCareers .
One problem I’ve run into is that the saved jobs that have expired cannot be unfavorited and removed from my saved jobs list.
I’m wondering if that’s a bug with the Handshake app?

For the most part I absolutely love this platform. But the fact that it logs me out pretty much every single time without me asking is getting really annoying. It really hurts usability when I just wanna go check a message and I have to go through my entire university’s SSO. This is a problem both on the web app and the actual app. Just leave me logged in like LinkedIn I don’t think there’s data private enough to warrant logging me out each time and if there is then use Face ID.

Unfortunately HandshakeJobsCareers lacks a lot of stuff the desktop website includes. For example, a lot of the profile sections (such as work experience and GPA) are gone and are blank. You can’t add documents or at least view them. The mobile browser is way better than HandshakeJobsCareers . I only use HandshakeJobsCareers when I’m not home and try to get some applications in while I’m not busy. But unless the application only requires a resume, it’s not worth it.

HandshakeJobsCareers is well designed and easy to use. It could use an iPad version.

The search tool is useful, but a way to filter by only work-study jobs, and filter by “quick apply” jobs.

MANY jobs posted aren’t real, and you actually have to apply separately after finishing your Handshake one. I wish I could filter those out.

Messages in HandshakeJobsCareers are archaic - you can’t delete them, can’t flag those you want to follow up with... rendering this area useless and making it an overwhelming mess. Also, the red flag for notifications on your iPhone will go haywire- reporting unread messages with obnoxious numbers even though they’re read. The purpose of that feature in apps is to alert you to business that needs attention - very annoying that it stays there once reviewed!

I find the location setting to be very frustrating. I was a student in Chicago Illinois, I have now moved and live in Nashville Tennessee. I have changed my personal setting as best I can to find careers in Tennessee however, the jobs still listed to me apply only to Chicago because I went to college there and those who reach out are only individual’s interested in the Chicago area. I wish HandshakeJobsCareers would offer better location settings/relevant location settings for alumni. It makes it impossible to find a job after graduating.

The website on mobile is incredibly slow and keeps asking you if you want to view the website or get HandshakeJobsCareers so I caved and got HandshakeJobsCareers as the site would freeze up whenever the pop up loaded. HandshakeJobsCareers also freezes- every single time I click on a job posting. It’s a bit of a bummer because on desktop, I find the job listings of the site pretty good and usually contain jobs that are actually related to my career.

I find HandshakeJobsCareers helpful, and it connects me through my current college too. I would really like to see some changes though. Such as giving the option to sort by location where it’s decreasing in how far away from your current location (or where you say you live at).

This is a great app. It is easy to use and not overwhelming to look at. I love how they organize jobs in different categories such as by location and category. If you feel you are limited, their filters can help you narrow your search.

I just recently clicked on HandshakeJobsCareers to check out some job openings. However it will not let me use HandshakeJobsCareers because it is saying my iphone is Jailbroken, which it is not and never has been. There was recently an update 3 days ago, so I’m not sure if this is a flaw in their new software? I also tried to find someone to contact about the problem and they have no customer service contact outlets, so I decided to comment on here to hopefully bring the issue to attention.

I’m job hunting as an alumni and I still have and use my edu email it never sends the link for the mobile app but I had no problem setting up my profile on the regular computer site. Faulty!

As soon as you open HandshakeJobsCareers it only gives you the option to log in with a valid school email to receive a temporary passcode or asks if you already have a temporary passcode. But I already have an account so why can’t it just let me sign in like any other app. When I try to use my email that already has a handshake account it says it’s invalid but how’s that possible if I already have an account.

HandshakeJobsCareers is a complete BS and so is the support. A year ago I told them about the sign up link they are emailing, which the link most of the time is broken. After one year still the same issue. And i don’t understand why you need to send a link dude. If you cannot develop a proper app i know people who can teach you. This is one of simplest app platforms and if you cannot figure this out to work sufficiently then you need to go another job, just saying 😉

Good app but did have some glitching and problems with my data not being saved but has yet been resolved and I have received an e-mail about it! I updated HandshakeJobsCareers and had worked well for me since then. Would definitely recommend!

When adding location filter when searching for jobs, HandshakeJobsCareers crashes and closes.

I think HandshakeJobsCareers could be much better for the following reasons. First and foremost, allowing ( a college)counselor to decline a resume because they feel they can improve it is just wrong. I uploaded a resume that a VP of an oil company helped me write and it was declined by said counselor. Take that power away from them. Second, way too many crashes. This is obviously an ongoing problem that other reviewers have mentioned.

Only concern is notifications, they won’t load when I click a particular notification.

Pretty cool app and very user friendly I feel like I am in a deluxe express line ! I do wish they had more listings in my major though. They have some good ones in there just have to search harder . They do have a recommended listing which helped me a lot :).

HandshakeJobsCareers crashed the first 6 times I tried to post a job. It continually loses my data. The University took over a week to review my posting and then once the posting was approved HandshakeJobsCareers didn’t automatically post the job and now the posting is lost and has to be done again. Additionally, HandshakeJobsCareers needs some serious streamlining. It shouldn’t require so many steps to post a job. Incredibly frustrating.