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Needs a lot more improvements
I’ve been using this app since graduating in August of 2022. Posted this ending of April 2023. A lot of these jobs aren’t entry level for an app that aims to help college students their first job. It would help knowing how many applicants there are in the process so you know what to expect as far as a response and wait time. Most companies don’t even update the status on your application from pending to declined. Also, when trying to view the multiple locations on a job post through the mobile version, it doesn’t actually show you anything but goes to the employer profile. There are problems loading when the employer decides to upload 2 pages worth of requirements for their job description.Show lessOla boy
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. We’d like to look further into this for you, and will need to collect some additional details from you. Please submit a ticket here: Submit a request – Handshake Help Center (https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and include the phrase “App Review” when describing the issue. We look forward to assisting you!Site for sales jobs?
“I’ve noticed that you’ve been studying for [insert major here]. Here’s a job totally unrelated but I’ll keep spamming you.”
Why isn’t there a function to block people? Why should I have to get notified every time these recruiters send the exact same message?
Handshake team, I would really love to see some function on the student/alumni side to block recruiters.Show lessjoeboblio
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I have submitted your feedback to our product team for review. We appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback regarding our app.Mostly marketing spam
Needs to be better filtering or categories when companies make posts. And notifications don’t properly clear after viewing messages which is annoying and I had to disable badging so it wouldn’t always distract me. The majority of the messages I receive are labeled as a job to apply to but they’re invitations to conventions, or mostly just general interest presentations for their companies. JOB: Want to learn more about company X? Sign up at the link below! Our company might be hiring, who knows!! It feels like marketing spam 80% of the time. Not one star bc there have been 2 or 3 actual invitations to apply to internships which could perhaps help somebody but really those opportunities are all available on every other job site, too.Show lessGabo Muchacho
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. We’d like to look further into this for you, and will need to collect some additional details from you. Please submit a ticket here: Submit a request – Handshake Help Center (https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and include the phrase “App Review” when describing the issue. We look forward to assisting you!Nothing but spam
For every good recruiter theres 20 more saying “disregard if this is not your field” because they mass message everyone in a generic way. I have hundreds of notifications in my inbox and a single digit number had anything to do with my skillset. Setting which opportunities I want clearly has not worked. Also, it seems they removed the option to not get notified by certain employers, as I have begun receiving messages again from companies I previously avoidedShow lesstylerd120802
Blocking should be a feature
Would be great if we could block certain recruiters. I had to turn down interships but the same recruiters will send their generalized message over and over again for other internships, and I’ve messaged them saying thank you for the opportunity but I’m not looking for an internship and i might as well not have sent anything. We’re going on too many times this occurring in just one month.
ALLOW PEOPLE TO BLOCK INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES ALL TOGETHER.Show lessXOLily26
Trash app
My school used to work on Symplicity for ministry graduates looking for work. It was initiative, fast, and I could quickly see what jobs were available in my field of interest.
Handshake is none of these things. It’s clunky, I don’t even see a tenth of the job listings I saw before, and it’s hard to navigate. I see tons of jobs I’m not interested in, and there’s no way to ignore job ads or slim down my process. I’m not sure why our school uses this thing, and I’m petitioning to go back to the app we used before or something else. As someone who has done development work in the past I can usually be sympathetic but this app is garbage.Show lessStutzmas
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. We’d like to look further into this for you, and will need to collect some additional details from you. Please submit a ticket here: Submit a request – Handshake Help Center (https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and include the phrase “App Review” when describing the issue. We look forward to assisting you!Good app, but have feature requests:
Hi, I really like Handshake as a job board and it’s a good app with little bugs. But I do have a lot of suggestions:
1. When looking through my job applications, there’s sometimes no way to go back to previous page after clicking on a link.
2. We should add a way to manually flag job apps as rejected or closed, since they are not always updated. I have a lot of “pending” apps that in reality, the employer rejected over email a long time ago.
3. Please add a way to upload/view our documents in app
4. A “scroll to top” button when looking through job listings
Thank you!Show lessallie13156742
Latest update needs fixing!
Hello, whilst this is a fantastic app and I’ve been using it for a year now, the latest update seems to not allow mobile users to expand the job description. Whenever I click on a job posting, it always trails off with “…” at the end and I cannot find out what the requirements are in order to apply. I’ve been waiting for awhile to see any new updates, but there still is this error.
Please kindly fix this error!Show lessRosy863
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. We’d like to look further into this for you, and will need to collect some additional details from you. Please submit a ticket here: Submit a request – Handshake Help Center (https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and include the phrase “App Review” when describing the issue. We look forward to assisting you!Still Job Searching (app needs a lot of work)
I hate leaving a bad review, but there is no way to contact anyone for feedback. I got this app as an alumni and the career department of my school recommended. This app needs a lot of work. I am look for a remote position. There is no option to put this in your search or on your profile. Also I don’t know what the point of having a profile is because every recruiter that contacts me obviously doesn’t even look at it. They also ignore my job preferences. I often get messages about jobs outside of my field and nowhere near where I live. Most of the messages I get from the recruiters are similar messages over and over. Even when I respond that the job is not what I’m look for and that they are not remote and out of state the recruiters ignore it and later respond with the same job with a similar if not the same message that was sent to me before. It’s so bad that I would equate it to spam. Please fix this. I should only be getting jobs that are relevant to my job preferences. Why even have a job preferences page if it doesn’t work?
Please add the option to filter results for remote work, add remote work to job preferences page and fix it so my job preferences and profile aren’t ignored by the recruiters.Show lessreviewer 4321
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I have submitted your feedback to our product team for review. We appreciate you taking the time to provide this feedback regarding our app.Great app, needs iPad compatibility
Handshake is formatted very well on iPhone- easy to navigate, pleasant aesthetic.. but I just wish that they would make a format suited for an iPad. I use my iPad daily as my main productivity hub and would like a version of the Handshake app that is compatible with an iPad screen.LittleStarTrekky
