Handshake: The Shepherd University Student Internship and Job Search Tool
Create your own handshake now!
Follow these steps:
Click this link to Handshake and it will take you to the following screen:
Use your @rams.shepherd.edu to create your account, you do not have to search shepherd. After using your Rams Email, you will then set up your profile. You will then fill out the following and complete all steps after this.
We can’t stress enough how valuable it is for students to fill out their Handshake profiles. Why? It comes down to two simple, yet extremely powerful benefits:
- More relevant job recommendations
- Increased likelihood of being messaged by a recruiter on Handshake
Even so, we know that students often don’t know where to start. Historically, we’ve shared that a complete, updated profile makes you 5x more likely to be messaged by a recruiter. This is still a great sound bite to share!
We know that not every student will log into Handshake ready to share work experiences or skills. As such, we’ve narrowed it down to the three most critical items to kickstart your Handshake profile. These can all be found in the “Your Interests” section of a student’s profile. Read: if you’re only going to spend 5 minutes on Handshake, add these three things to your profile!
- Job Type: Tell us whether you’re looking for an internship, part-time job, or full-time job
- Location: Select the cities where you’d like to work, and Handshake will show you jobs in that area
- Job Role: Choose jobs you would like to explore, like marketing associate or software engineer
Students who have filled out these fields in Handshake are 2.5x more likely to see and apply for relevant opportunities and 80% of students who fill out these fields get messaged by a recruiter.
By simply filling out these preferences (No barrier to entry! No experience required!), you could be served opportunities that are interesting to you and start getting outreach from employers with relevant opportunities.
While the above are the fields that are included in most recruiter searches, employers search on a range of other criteria as well, including:
- Work & Volunteer Experience
- Courses, especially for STEM or technical fields
- Organizations & Extracurriculars
- Skills, including “hard skills” like software programs and coding, and “soft skills” like communication
It’s important that you fill in other aspects that show off hard and soft skills too!