#1 most frequent
United States of America
77.5%3,074 installations of 3,967
What is Handshake Talent Engagement Suite?
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite (TES) helps employers source, engage, manage, and build their brand with early talent at scale. Tell an impactful story and build a strong employer brand using rich media, candidate reviews, employee testimonials, and more.
Categories & Use Cases
Videos
Top Performing Features
Active Recruitment Advertising
The ability to promote jobs directly to candidates by email, text, or direct messages
Category average: 7.8
Passive Recruitment Advertising
The ability to post or promote recruitment efforts or specific jobs on social media or other sites
Category average: 7.1
Employer Branding Tools
The ability to create an employer persona to better engage with candidates and applicants
Category average: 8.1
Areas for Improvement
Who Buys & Uses Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.0%160 installations of 3,967
#3 most frequent
Canada
1.7%69 installations of 3,967
Talent Engagement Suite saves time & helps source great talent for us
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am a campus recruiter, so I use the Talent Engagement Suite to create segments and campaigns to attract and source top talent for our entry-level roles & internship positions. While I am out on campus during our busy season, I can easily connect & engage with the best students at big career fairs. However, there are several other schools that have the exact kind of student we are looking to hire, and I can't always engage at every university during a busy recruiting season. The Talent Engagement products help me to passively source new students at different schools to reach a broader audience than I could manage on my own. It saves me time and helps me find the best students- win win!
Pros
- Ease of use
- Saves me time
- Helps me engage in meaningful ways with candidates virtually
Cons
- More easily connect the segments into the campaign. I'd rather not have to start on the segment page for a campaign I'm hoping to create.
- Analytics page could be broken down to show me specific analytics per job to compare and contract (instead of viewing 1 job at a time)
Return on Investment
- 70% of the applicants from my 2 spring hire positions were sourced from the campaign I scheduled. These are candidates who I might not have met on campus & being able to recruit them virtually is positively impacting my hiring numbers.
- We had a 74% open rate & 63% click rate for those 2 roles. This is helping us prove that Handshake is where are students are & they trust the messages they receive there.
Other Software Used
Eightfold AI, Linkedin Recruiter
Handshake Campaigns Allow for Efficient Sourcing
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Handshake to advertise our university jobs and events to a diverse set of students. The ability to run campaigns allows us to first post jobs and events and then run campaigns to target specific students to encourage them to apply to our posted jobs or attend our posted events.
Pros
- Great customer service
- Ability to source diverse candidates
- Wide reach among students
Cons
- Ability to directly source and reach out to specific candidates (rather than just a whole pool with campaigns)
- More flexibility over the way postings look to allow for creativity
- More details about students on their profiles to make it easier to source the right candidates
Return on Investment
- Increased the number of URPs and women applying to technical job postings, increasing diversity at the top of the funnel
- Increased attendance at in-person campus events
- Drove large quantities of applicants to job postings we advertised
Alternatives Considered
Untapped
Other Software Used
Beamery, iCIMS Talent Cloud, Yello
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite allows us to connect with and recruit great talent!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I work specifically in University Talent Recruiting so Handshake Talent Engagement Suite has been a great help in targeting the right audience. It can be hard getting the right demographic to apply using other job boards such as Indeed, so we are grateful to have a platform that is just for students and recent graduates. I have been able to source hundreds and hundreds of top talent candidates to fill out roles which would not have been possible without Handshake Talent Engagement Suite.
Pros
- Being able to track who views a role, and being able to contact them if they didn't formally apply
- The ability to properly label candidates who show interest in our roles, candidates we have reached out to, and candidates who are not interested in our roles. This helps us even more with targeting the right audience.
Cons
- Being able to see all the students who are sent messages in a campaign, that way we can mark them as contacted for certain roles.
- The ability to share a mailbox or delegate messages to other users.
- The ability to see the job listing as students see it would be helpful as well.
- Messages notification seems to be stuck on 13 whether I have more or less unread messages in my inbox.
- A way to label private profiles that receive messages from us or view our jobs.
- It would be nice to have a map that shows where the schools are located in the country. Sometimes we want to send out campaigns to schools in a certain region and it can be time consuming researching where all the universities are. Maybe even pre-made school lists by region.
- It would be nice to have the ability to label candidates individually or in bulk from my inbox - similar to labeling applicants in the job listings.
Return on Investment
- Handshake Talent Engagement Suite helps us engage with students who may not attend in person events due to health/safey reasons
Great Bang for your Buck!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Handshake Talent Engagement Suite for mainly two purposes: 1. College recruiting - I register my company for college fairs. Then I make a segment (a select group of students) who I send a campaign (message) to announce that we are attending the college fair so that they will come visit us at our booth. Its a way that I can funnel more students to my colleagues when they are attending a fair. 2. Salaried and hourly roles - when the position that we are recruiting for can accept a new grad or recent grad, then I can post positions on Handshake Talent Engagement Suite and send campaigns out based by major/background. I do this to better advertise a role and I funnel those candidates to the job posting on our corporate website. I do this for myself and other recruiters that do not have Handshake Talent Engagement Suite access.
Pros
- allows me to target specific majors and message them
- allows me to target specific graduation years and message them
- allows me to message an audience without a particular university affiliation and message them
Cons
- add an "occupational health and safety" major
- add an easier to read calendar so i can see all of the events we are attending company wide
- allow us to save different company descriptions - CRH doesn't have any traction with career fairs. Ash Grove Cement does, so I find I am always having to delete the CRH description and put in the Ash Grove one.
Return on Investment
- 3 hard-to-fill roles filled (graduates plus 1-2 years of experience)
- more top of mindness of my company for students
Handshake is an integral part of our campus engagement strategy
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization was initially in need of a tool to help organize and promote virtual and on-campus events. As an enterprise organization, we also needed to improve our brand presence and overall awareness of our company at universities. Handshake was the perfect platform to help us work with colleges & universities to better communicate opportunities to connect with Magna. Once we were able to get our events running, we were able to quickly expand to centralizing our external corporate presence, consolidating our recruiters under one account, improving employer brand and awareness, and getting large-scale campaigns for events and career opportunities activated.
Pros
- Segmentation - Great options to target relevant students/degree programs
- Messaging capability - Simple & streamlined. Able to easily commuicate with students
- Managing company users - Easy to approve/disapprove employees who request to be associated with the company
Cons
- Ability to delete events that were not approved by a school or were cancelled.
- Canned content/template integration, so users can select & customize a campaign within the platform.
Return on Investment
- Our ROI dramatically increased in 2022 once we were able to begin utilizing campaigns
- Our adoption rate and messaging/campaign usage is projected to increase in 2023, now that we have data points to prove how successful online outreach translates ton on-campus recruiting.
