Jobs

Best Practices

Job approvals in Handshake are not 'owned' by any single career practitioner. At this time, it is imperative there is a group effort to support the timeliness of job approvals into the Syracuse University instance of Handshake. As such, each School or College is expected to participate in a timely approach to approving Jobs relevant to their respective departments. This includes, communicating with employers as needed for job posting corrections, edits, and more. At no one time should there be a reliance on a single entity to approve jobs at the University level.

To expedite this process, each career practitioner should be equipped to save job filters relevant to their scope and make this their default job search filter. Please refer to Job Postings Page Overview and Create a Saved Search for more support on this.

Central Career Services will provide 'safety net' support for Job approvals to ensure timely approvals of relevant jobs. However, this workflow will change by December 2022 during the final phase of the Signal Boosting release from Handshake. See Employers for more information.

Auto-Approvals for Jobs 

When Processing Job Posting Requests, as needed, consistent and trusted employers may be approved for "auto-approval" in Handshake. This may be done to support workflow of our various career practitioners. This especially holds true when some employers may post Jobs to Handshake on a consistent or at an extremely high-rate. At this time, Central Career Services will turn on auto-approval for jobs on 9/19/22.

Employers are allowed global settings when accessing their account. If you encounter an issue where, for example, editing a job is disabled by the employer, best practice is to contact the employer directly to discuss further improvements on their job positing. More than likely, they may disable Career Service ability to edit Job information is to reduce Job edits that impact multiple University's at once.

 Employer Global Settings

Working with Students: Pro-Tip

As Career Advisors, we are often asked to provide tailored or recommended job postings for students. There are a few ways to do this that are recommended by Handshake whether that is using Handshake Emails to bring in Job posts, outlook emails for newsletters, RSS feeds, and more. Many of these solutions are really helpful for working with a wide range of students or large groups.

Sometimes you just want one link to send to individual students for very specific job recommendations in Handshake. One solution that may help would be to use the Student View of the student's profile, jump to their Job search page, and save search filters to their account.

Here's an example of what this could look like:

1. Once at a student's profile, click View As This User.
   1.  Example: Actions Menu

      
2. Navigate to the Jobs page and add Filters. Once done, click save this search. The student will now receive notifications based on the filters you saved. You can then copy the URL and hyperlink this for the student. The student will automatically be redirected to this Job search page with the saved filters.
   1.  Example: Save your search

      
   2.  Example: URL to save

      
3. Alternatively: you can also direct students to view their Settings > Notification Preferences to see this and any other saved Job Alerts.
   1.  Example: Settings > Notification preferences

      

Default Search Filters

We’ll use the Jobs tab for this example. This is the same process for this section as well.
 

First, create your search:

1. Click Jobs on the left-hand navigation bar.
2. You will see toward the left of the screen a list of filters you can use to create the criteria for your search.  Filters include items such as Job Type, Salary Type, School Year, etc.  Select the criteria for your search.  You will see that the list of Jobs change as you narrow your search by adding additional criteria.

Next, follow these steps if you’d like to save your search results:

1. Click Save These Filters.
   
   1. Remember, by saving your search you are saving the criteria for the search, not the data the search yielded.  The jobs meeting this criteria could possibly change from day to day.
2. Enter a Name and Description of your search and click Save.

Lastly, follow these steps if you’d like to make your search filters your default search filter:

1. Click My Saved Filters.
2. A My Saved Filters window will appear.  Click the three ellipses next to the saved search of your choice. Choose Set as Default.
   
3. DO NOT PRESS "APPLY FILTERS". Instead, refresh the page.
4. Your search in now your default search. Each time you return to the page, you will only see these set preferences.
   
   1. Feel free to remove certain searches as you need or set new default searches as needed.