![]() ![]() To explain the philosophy, we’ve come up with a narrative called the “ Hiring Manager's Story.” The gist of the story is that hiring is hard work, time-intensive, and incredibly important to get right. First and foremost, we want students to understand how hiring managers make most of their hiring decisions. To guide our efforts, we’ve identified a philosophy, which has, in turn, informed our strategies and storytelling for several years now. Much of our time in the Office of Alumni and Career Services at Longwood University is spent thinking about (and executing) strategies for how to help students and alumni successfully transition to post-college life as graduates doing whatever they hope to do first. I thought I’d take to Linkedin and run my thoughts on Handshake by everyone that’s familiar with the platform as practitioners.ĭoesn’t the primary student-user function of Handshake, the jobs/internship portal, run counter to strategies that teach students how hiring actually works? When we recommend students apply for jobs in Handshake, aren’t we promoting an approach that fundamentally doesn’t work, or at least, isn’t advised? Specifically, I’m worried that by promoting Handshake to college students, we’re delivering the wrong message. ![]() I’ve had a notion running around my head for a while now about the popular career services platform Handshake.
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