TrustRadius Insights for Handshake Talent Engagement Suite are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
The Talent Engagement Suite offered by Handshake has been widely used by campus recruiters to attract and source top talent for entry-level roles and internships. Recruiters have found it easy to connect with the best students at big career fairs, saving time and reaching a broader audience. They have also utilized the platform to advertise university jobs and events to a diverse set of students, running campaigns to target specific students for job applications or event attendance. The Talent Engagement Suite has proven to be particularly effective for college recruiting, allowing recruiters to announce their attendance at college fairs and funnel more students to their colleagues. Additionally, Handshake has been used for summer internship recruiting and increasing brand awareness by hosting events and attending career fairs. Solopreneurs have also found Handshake helpful in finding interns and benefiting from their additional perspective in their business. Overall, users have praised Handshake for its ability to provide targeted sourcing and attraction approaches, consolidate recruiters under one account, organize and promote virtual and on-campus events, as well as offering valuable data analytics to gauge the return on investments in college relationships and hiring of students. However, some users have expressed frustration with signing up for the product and its lack of user-friendliness and support. Despite these challenges, Handshake remains a preferred platform for campus recruiting efforts due to its comprehensive features that help drive attendance at career fairs, encourage job applications, and provide insights into recruitment strategies.
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite Reviews
5 Reviews
Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesAccounting3Marketing & Advertising1Veterinary1
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We use Handshake for all of our campus recruiting efforts. We send campaigns to students to drive attendance at career fairs and encourage them to apply to specific jobs. We also use Handshake to garner insights into where our efforts are paying off.
Pros
Support for Campaigns/Student Engagement to drive attendance and applicants
One platform with all schools and one hub for students
Cons
Insights reports are generic and hard to get "company specifics"
Likelihood to Recommend
We are able to reach thousands of students in the click of a button and stay engaged/drive applicants to meet our recruiting needs
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Human Resources (5001-10,000 employees)
We have used Handshake Talent Engagement Suite to connect with educational providers to meet and talk with students to get them to learn about our company and also apply as possible future new hires. This has given us the ability to build our pipeline for new hires and we use it to identify new talent. Additionally, this allows students to learn further about our company and the opportunities and jobs that we provide.
Pros
Great User Interface
Streamlines connection to possible new hires
Ease of Access
Increased opportunity to connect with students
Cons
Function to talk directly to candidate in application
Enhanced support features
Ability to add internal comments on prospective new hires
Ability to share certain job descriptions to select individuals
Likelihood to Recommend
This product is well suited if you are looking for new hires and need the ability to find and identify them very quickly and efficiently. This might be less appropriate for a company that is not hiring directly out of college and may not need the ability to find and identify talent immediately. We were looking for a certain amount of new hires that we needed to fit a specific skillset and by using Handshake Talent Engagement Suite we were able to target specific students with that skillset and get them interested in the position.
We use Handshake to send targeted campaigns to students at our campuses. We are starting to use the event management tool for the career fairs that we attend.
Pros
Connecting with Students.
Provides useful Analytics.
Effective event management.
Cons
Messaging specific regional recruiters.
ATS
Connection with outside ATSs.
Likelihood to Recommend
I love Handshake! Great tool and super easy to use. Adds a personal touch to targeted campaigns.
I use Handshake to recruit potential professionals to work for our clinic. Instead of going on individual university websites to advertise for positions at our clinic, we use Handshake as a way to interact with as many Universities as possible in one easy to use web application. Handshake has been easy to use with an intuitive user interface. We have only been on Handshake for a short time with no results yet but I am hoping it will help fill our professional needs in the coming year.
Pros
It connects various universities in one site
It is easy to use
It is quick in connecting users together
Cons
It does not provide informatics on how may searches have occurred for our ad
Likelihood to Recommend
I am looking for an associate veterinarian for our hospital. Being on Handshake has made it easy to put this out to as many universities as possible. In the past, we would have to put an ad on each individual university from which we would want to recruit. This has saved much needed time.
I've used Handshake for the past two years to find interns. In fact, it was a previous intern who told me about it in the first place. I'm a solopreneur, so having a couple of extra hands is extremely beneficial, and I knew I could make a great learning experience for an intern as well. I'm a copywriter and marketing consultant, so most of my interns have been PR and marketing majors. And I like the fact that I can target specific schools. Since I work by and for myself, having interns has been terrific in getting an additional perspective for my business.
Pros
I like that I can target specific schools.
I like that I can interact with the university's career department to improve my listing, get feedback, and have them help promote internally.
Cons
It's not an intuitive system. Even after using it for two years, I forget where features are from time-to-time when I need to edit or make updates.
As compared to another site I use, it's a little confusing to figure out where you should add when you're accepting applicants and when the internship starts and finishes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Handshake is mostly suited for internships or entry-level positions since you can also target recent graduates. Internships can be paid or unpaid, short, long, or whatever you need. But descriptions need to be well thought out and clear, or the university may not approve it. Handshake would not be suitable, I don't think, for trying to find employees more than a year out of college. I don't think of it as a regular job posting site.
