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Handshake is a Big Headshake
February 25, 2020

Handshake is a Big Headshake

Jason Smith, DPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Handshake

We are a small liberal arts college and we use it to recruit student workers for student employment and work study. We share the "workspace" with six other colleges which are geographically connected. For example, if one posts a student job at Pomona College, it would then be seen at all the sister colleges if one so desires. Handshake is also used by undergrads under the guise of the Career Services Office. I can not comment on that usage therefore I will focus on how we use it to recruit students for on campus employment.
  • It gets the word out that you need to fill a position.
  • It seems that students can easily search and find jobs with the system.
  • From my point of view, one who posts the jobs, Handshake is just overly complicated.
  • From a default configuration, this thing about killed my email in-box. Way too chatty.
  • Positive, wow, I got lots of student applications so that is good, Positive.
  • However, I also get lots of bad or flaky applications, not good. Negative.
I am not aware of the competitors to Handshake. However, Handshake is so awful that I think I might even write my own Web application that does what Handshake can do and do it better. In fact, I think that I made a "Bob Board" application back in the 1990's and it did just fine.
Well, support was a no-go. It seems that our institution put some office guy in charge of the product and we got to call and ask questions if needed. We had some introduction training also. What really annoys me about our implementation of Handshake is that everything seemed like a kludgy work-around to get anything done.

Do you think Handshake Talent Engagement Suite delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Handshake Talent Engagement Suite's feature set?

No

Did Handshake Talent Engagement Suite live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Handshake Talent Engagement Suite go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Handshake Talent Engagement Suite again?

No

If you want a ton of job applications that come at you in a chaotic manner and are hard to keep track of, and lots of stress, then Handshake is for you. Handshake seems like it is making an effort to solve every type of problem and offer every kind of feature. However, it does few tasks well. I might add that our implementation that uses a total of 7 schools makes things 7x more complicated. For example, if I modify something it can get really confusing.