Handshake How-To

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Handshake is your central hub for all Life Design Lab events, task and internship posts, resources and more than. But, it can be confusing to navigate! Use this tip videos, tools and other suggestions to make the most out of Handshake.

Log in at present at handshake.jhu.edu

Making and Completing Your Profile

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Completing your profile helps Handshake automate your experience, like Amazon or Spotify. It allows the Life Pattern Lab to give you more targeted events and internships. A complete profile likewise helps Handshake populate ideal recommendations for internships, gap year opportunities, shadowing, jobs and events, and helps employers find, recognize, and reach out to you. Pre-professional advising also uses Handshake to set up appointments and help you set for graduate school applications. Follow these steps for all-time results!

Key categories to fill on your Handshake profile

Your name and education (college, major, minor, year) are automatically loaded into your profile and locked in place. Using your resume or CV, y'all should add:

  • 2+ piece of work or volunteer experiences (student employment, summertime jobs and research too!)
  • 1+ clubs or extracurricular activities, like pupil groups, HopHacks, etc.
  • ii+ courses that are very relevant to your current interests. No more than 10
  • Whatsoever key projects like publications, senior projects, posters, Github repos, portfolio, etc.
  • Any technical, artistic or language-related skills. Handshake will suggest some for you
  • Focus on things y'all've done at JHU, especially if you're a second-year or older

GPA

All students can opt in to sharing this information in an SIS grade that appears the kickoff time you log onto handshake.jhu.edu. Proceed in listen that not opting in means yous won't qualify for jobs that have GPA restrictions.

Uploading documents

Yeah, you just basically wrote out your resume in your profile. But you as well want to add together a PDF or word document of your resume, which will make information technology easier for employers to select you and gather data to interview you. Information technology will too make it easier to utilise to jobs if you already have your current resume on your profile. Need assist with your resume or profile? Drop-in to encounter with a Life Design educator at office hours.

Upload a photo!

The same goes for LinkedIn: this shows a little actress effort, makes your profile stand out, and helps the recruiter put a face to a name. Recruiters often tell us that they volition remember a student from an info session or interview, but might need to wait them upward to make sure they take the right name. If y'all don't take a picture, they tin can't find yous.

Demand a professional headshot? The DMC takes them every twelvemonth at the Autumn Career Fair, for costless. Even a solo photo of y'all in business concern-casual clothing is better than nothing.

Make your Contour Public

Yous tin do this by clicking on the lefthand side, a bit below your photo. This allows 300,000+ employers to search for you lot. You can change it back to private at any time.

Selecting a Career Academy and Career Interests

You can join one (or more) of our six industry-focused Career Academies by checking your Career Interests in Handshake. You can also select other job functions/roles or industries that involvement you in this section, which might help the Life Design Lab or employers find improve-matched students for their positions.

How to Use Handshake

Finding Events that Chronicle to Your Interests

The all-time manner to discover events related to your interest is using the Event search function. Follow these steps to go what y'all really need:

  • Curlicue downward to "Career Center" and select "Life Design Lab (Homewood)." While events from Carey, Bloomberg, or others might be interesting to you, these events are definitely best for Homewood students.
  • Narrow the event date if you lot're looking for something in the next couple weeks
  • Relieve yourself problem later past hitting the star at the end of event clarification so you can notice it again, or click through to RSVP to the event to get updates.

Find Jobs and Internships

What are adept Keywords or Task Titles for me to search?

Outset broadly by entering career fields you lot're interested in, such equally "journalism," "consulting," or "investment banking." To narrow your search, endeavour entering manufacture-specific skills that a job might require. These include programming languages, foreign languages, and calculator skills. While you can search your desired chore championship, proceed in mind that companies use many different titles to describe the same position: a "specialist" in 1 visitor might be an "acquaintance" in another. Be sure to attempt a variety of titles when you're searching.

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