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Handshake Talent Engagement Suite

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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.

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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.

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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. Use 20+ criteria to target candidates that meet role preferences. Send unlimited customized messages in bulk to target populations. Tell a story and build a strong employer brand using rich media, candidate reviews, and employee testimonials. The Talent Engagement Suite can be enhanced with the following modules:

  1. Event Manager:
    Handshake Event Manager helps employers schedule, fill, host events, and connect with early talent. Create and host unlimited group events and 1:1 video chats using Handshake video or a different video platform. Manage scheduling, track RSVPs, and create targeted follow-ups based on candidate actions.

  2. Expert Assist:
    Handshake Expert Assist extends the impact of the recruiting team by partnering with Handshake's team of experts. Lean on experts to source more relevant candidates, design campaigns, and train up teams to get the most out of Handshake.

  3. Insights:
    Handshake Insights uses proprietary Handshake data across students, employers, and academic institutions to help hiring teams spotlight specific areas to more effectively recruit and hire on Handshake. Designed using consistent customer feedback, the Insights module includes detailed talent intelligence reports that supercharge recruitment planning with actionable analysis. Leverage job seeker trends, benchmarking analysis, and performance data across the recruiting funnel to improve brand resonance, increase quality applicants, and make more hires.

  4. ATS integration:
    Connect applicant tracking systems to Handshake for a full-funnel recruiting view. Connect activities to outcomes ā€“ track how many hired applicants were proactively recruited on Handshake through activities like campaign messaging, events, and career fairs.

  5. Advocates:
    Handshake Advocates helps employers accelerate interest from qualified candidates by connecting them to the people they want to speak with mostā€”employees in the same or similar role over recruiters. Make it easy for candidates to meet company representatives and form relationships all on Handshake.

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Talent is everywhere, but access to opportunity is not. The Handshake mission is to help students and employers connect so everyone can launch the careers of their dreams. Handshake boasts a large, most diverse, and active early talent network.

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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.

RippleMatch, Yello, and Symplicity are common alternatives for Handshake Talent Engagement Suite.

Reviewers rate Active Recruitment Advertising highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Handshake Talent Engagement Suite are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.

Based on user reviews, users commonly recommend the following improvements for Handshake:

  1. Simplify the login process and consider integrating with LinkedIn. Many users suggest that Handshake should streamline the login process to make it more efficient. They also recommend incorporating LinkedIn as an alternative login method, which can save time and provide a seamless experience.

  2. Provide clear indications of interests on profiles. Users advise indicating as many interests as possible on their Handshake profiles to increase the chances of finding relevant job matches. By highlighting their areas of interest, users believe they can enhance the accuracy of job recommendations and improve their overall experience with the platform.

  3. Ensure updated technology compatibility. Several users suggest using Handshake with up-to-date technology to avoid potential technical issues. These users recommend using compatible devices and browsers to optimize performance and reduce any potential disruptions while using the product.

It is important to note that these recommendations reflect common feedback from users, but individual experiences may vary. It is recommended for users to explore the features and capabilities of Handshake that align with their specific needs before making a decision.

Reviews

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A great tool to reach students and increase your brand awareness!

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 02, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
5 years of experience
  • Segment building
  • School Explorer
  • Profile
Cons
  • Campaigns - would love to enhance the design, be able to insert pictures and video in an eye appealing way
  • More in depth analytics within the platform

Talent Engagement Suite saves time & helps source great talent for us

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 14, 2023
  • 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)

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite's Campaigns and Segments

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 11, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • Campaign messaging functionality is very good.
  • Event registration process is easy to use.
  • The segments component is a great tool.
Cons
  • It would be great to have the ability to categorize messages into folders based similar to an email inbox.

Handshake Campaigns Allow for Efficient Sourcing

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 08, 2023
KS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • 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

Worth checking out!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 08, 2023
KK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • Creates a great talent pool
  • Easy to navigate
  • Great tools to utilize
Cons
  • Message inbox is not the easiest to track messages
  • Being able to share saved searches

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite allows us to connect with and recruit great talent!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 08, 2023
LW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
3 years of experience
  • 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.

In UR/Early Careers? You Need Handshake Talent Engagement Suite.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 08, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Analytics of Applicants and Campaigns
  • School Scope
  • Candidate Outreach and Management
Cons
  • AI matching of potential candidates for closed roles since right now the roles have to be posted
  • Integration with Workday Recruit and other ATS
  • Correct grad year for students because information can be outdated

Handshake Review.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 07, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
4 years of experience
  • 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"

Great Bang for your Buck!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 01, 2023
LT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • 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.

Allows us to shake the hands of students across the nation from our desks

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 01, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • Provides relevant career fairs
  • Registration for career fairs is easy
  • Search bar - love being able to search for the types of fairs we are interested in
Cons
  • It would be great to get emails of recommended career fairs based on what we have already attended.

Talent Engagement Specialist

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 31, 2023
EO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • Campaigns
  • Recruitment
  • Virtual webinars
  • Internship engagement

Handshake is the key to early career recruitment.

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 30, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • Connects us with our target audience (current college students and recent graduates).
  • Connects us with a variety of career services offices, building trust in our organization.
  • It provides capacity to our recruiters while also allowing us to balance volume and personalization in recruitment.
Cons
  • Developing an integration between Handshake and Salesforce would alleviate the majority of our capacity concerns with the platform.
  • Easier ability to track who was sourced from a specific message campaign (on the campaign section of the site rather than the "candidates" section.
  • Developing an integration between Outlook calendars and the scheduling platform.
  • Increased accuracy of reported data in student profiles.
  • Additional opportunities for profile holders to self-report racial/ethnic identity (namely, Native/Indigenous identity).

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 26, 2023
  • 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

Be sure to give Handshake a fair shake!

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 26, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
3 years of experience
  • Scheduled campaigns look like direct messages and are customizable to tie to specific events & jobs - we've had great success in responses!
  • The job postings we are able to create are easy to read, can encompass all of our locations, and lead candidates directly back to our website to officially apply.
  • The company profile is robust and allows us to include testimonials, news articles, etc. and really earn candidates' trust as they are scrolling through.
  • The fact that schools can have us register for events and fairs in Handshake as well as send updates through that, makes it so much easier to have everything in one place!
Cons
  • I've found it's hard to narrow down segments to get specific. For example, there is no "structural" engineering or "geotechnical" engineering major selection so just going off what students may or may not put on their profiles doesn't pull great results. The location preference option is also great but has caused issues for us because it pulls from locations that students apply to (even if the job had more than one listed), so they don't necessarily note it on their profile or actually want every place the system pulls.
  • The inbox feature is great for replies, but hard to come back to any that are already opened. I receive dozens of messages at a time and a tick of the system that can be irritating is that each time I reply to an individual message, it takes me back to the top of my inbox and shows my reply as unread.
  • I think the tagging could be beefed up to allow campaigns/messages to filter out or in people that have certain tags (or just unselect people in general). We've on several occasions accidentally messaged candidates we didn't want to because we can't see who is included in the bulk list.
  • It'd be really nice to be able to just search candidates by name, school, degree, etc. in the system without having to make a segment too!

Great Platform!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 26, 2023
BB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Connecting with Students.
  • Provides useful Analytics.
  • Effective event management.
Cons
  • Messaging specific regional recruiters.
  • ATS
  • Connection with outside ATSs.

Handshake makes the college education experience a breeze.

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 26, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
4 years of experience
  • Aggregate job openings.
  • Host career fairs and other events.
  • Clean UI.
Cons
  • Application tracking is often buggy or missing.
  • Notification preferences are limited.
  • Lots of spam messages.

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite for student and grad connection

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 25, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Connecting with local education centers
  • Reaching students or alumni for career opportunities
  • Providing a platform to contact students and staff
Cons
  • An education center can "deny" your request to connect with them
  • Separation of contact with students or staff of the school (separate email boxes or categories)
  • Alerting recruiters of upcoming events at the schools they have connections with

Handshake is an integral part of our campus engagement strategy

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 25, 2023
HH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
2 years of experience
  • 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.

New Handshake User

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 25, 2023
SS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • 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

Game-changer, but Spendy!

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2023
CP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Targeted messaging
  • Find target schools
  • Data and insights
Cons
  • There are only a couple of fields on the company profile that are dynamic (customizable) for students
  • Automation of job postings to certain schools with SuccessFactors

Awesome tool to find early in career talent!

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 05, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
5 years of experience
  • Event registration
  • Campaign messaging
  • Job posting and visibility
  • Responsive and engaged team that resolves issues
Cons
  • Skill searching and more unique filters that isolate talent
  • Time options to deploy campaigns and messaging
  • More campuses enrolled
  • In person event manager features that enable ATS integration

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite Rules the College Recruiting Landscape

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 28, 2022
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Talent segmentation that allows you to hone in on specific or broad skillsets
  • School connections that allow building tons of school relationships across the country
  • Customizable campaign messaging that allows you to reach a wide variety of students
Cons
  • I would love if there were a better way to filter by experience. Currently, it's based on graduation date but a lot of my talent segments pick up people with 10+ years of experience that recently started or completed another degree. This is frustrating for the candidate who receives a bunch of misplaced messages and for recruiters who have to explain why they received a message about an internship they are clearly overqualified for. Can we separate grad year from years of experience in the segmentation somehow?
  • I wish there were an easier way to "blacklist" candidates who were rude or expressed a sentiment of never wanting to hear from me or my company again. These are people that I don't want to accidentally include in a campaign message 6 months later.

Handshake Review 2022

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 28, 2022
LC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
1 year of experience
  • Answering questions
  • Resolving issues
  • Keeping Fiserv updated on new features
Cons
  • allow users to adjust the specific time that campaigns are sent
  • allow flyers for events/jobs to be uploaded in the platform
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