If you are attending college this year, you’re probably already familiar with Handshake.
In recent years, the campus recruiting platform has become synonymous with higher-education hiring, and is one of the primary tools for students looking for internships, on-campus, and entry-level roles.
The platform was created in 2014 by a group of Michigan Tech University classmates who felt that their institution’s location in the Upper Peninsula made it more difficult to get in front of employers. At the time, employers had to log into a different campus recruiting platform for each institution, making them more likely to limit their searches to only their top choice, leaving many students behind.
“Recruiters now just log into Handshake and can post that position to all of the Handshake schools, or to a subset of the Handshake schools, with a click of a button,” explains Christine Cruzvergara, the company’s chief education strategy officer.
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