Handshake Campaigns Allow for Efficient Sourcing
February 08, 2023

Handshake Campaigns Allow for Efficient Sourcing

Kasey Stricklin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Event Manager
  • Campaigns
  • Job Postings

Overall Satisfaction with Handshake Talent Engagement Suite

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.
  • Great customer service
  • Ability to source diverse candidates
  • Wide reach among students
  • 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
  • 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
The customer support from Handshake has been so, so good! Our customer success manager holds monthly meetings to answer any questions, check in, and give us company and feature updates. He has also held trainings and refreshers for our teams as new members come in and is extremely available to answer any ad hoc questions that come up. He is always willing to jump on a call to connect with anyone who may need anything! He also holds meetings with team members outside of the larger group meetings, including with our new manager to touch base and with our diversity and inclusion-focused team to discuss how Handshake can help.
Handshake and Untapped both have their pros and cons. The campaign features in Handshake are really unparalleled and allow you to reach a relevant and diverse set of students quickly and efficiently. Untapped has the ability to go through the profiles of individual students to really source specific people (which Handshake doesn't allow), but the filtering features needed work and it was tougher to reach a lot of students at once.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Handshake Talent Engagement Suite go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Handshake Talent Engagement Suite again?

Yes

Handshake is well suites to times when you want to drive a larger (and/or more diverse) pool to your job postings and events. You can send out a campaign to target the types of students you want to target and these campaigns have been proven to increase the engagement with our events and jobs. For example, before hosting an in-person campus event, I run a campaign to invite relevant students at that school to my event and I've seen an increase in event attendance. Handshake is not the tool, however, for looking through and contacting individual candidates as there is no way to look through individual profiles - you have to run a campaign first for a general job or posting and then individuals can respond to your outreach and that is when you are able to view their individual profile and contact them.

Handshake Talent Engagement Suite Feature Ratings

ATS Integration
5
Analytics Reporting
7
Campaign Optimization
9
Candidate Communication
9
Candidate Management
9
On-Site Promotion Strategies
10
Passive Recruitment Advertising
9
Active Recruitment Advertising
9
Employer Branding Tools
9