Faculty and Staff

You will need a User Account in order to login and use Handshake. https://app.joinhandshake.com/employer_registrations/new

Fill out the Handshake Registration form using your UCSB email address and click Sign Up. Do not use a public email address such as Gmail.

You will be asked to enter your recruiting interests and alma mater, agree to the Employer Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. Handshake will send you a verification email which you must confirm to activate your user account before continuing.

After you create your User Account, Handshake will ask you to connect to your Employer (i.e., department). If an Employer already exists in Handshake for your department, type your department's name OR at least "UCSB" and one word in your department's name, and review the generated search list of existing UCSB departments associated with Handshake. You will need to select YOUR department's name, NOT UCSB or UCSB Career Services.

If you see your department, select it and continue. Once you select your department, your User Account must be approved by an existing department staff member on Handshake.
If you do NOT see your department in the extended list, select Create New Company and enter your department name using one of the following formats:

• UCSB Department of ______
• UCSB Office of _____
• UCSB _____

You will be asked to enter information to create your department's profile page. This can be updated at a later time, but it should eventually be filled out.

If you are joining an existing Employer account for your department, it should already be connected to UCSB. If you created your Employer account for your department, your last step should be to connect your Employer account to UCSB. Use the search bar to find Santa Barbara, and click the + button to connect with us.

You can take this opportunity to connect with other campuses as well. Once we review your connection request, you will receive a confirmation email notifying you that your account is active at UCSB. The same process will occur at the other universities you connect with.

Should you have questions throughout this transition, training documents and videos can be found on Handshake's Employer Support page. Before school starts each fall, we host weekly trainings on how to use Handshake for faculty and staff.

• LOGIN: You can now login to Handshake using your UCSB email address and the password you set.
• POST A JOB: Click on Jobs in the left column under Postings. On the Handshake Jobs page, click the Create Job button. Once you have filled in the required fields in each of the tabbed sections (Basics, Details, Preferences, Schools; at minimum choose UCSB), click Create. Learn more about jobs, student applications, and closing your job posting.
• REVIEW: Your job posting will then be reviewed and approved/declined by Career Services.
• RECEIVE APPLICATIONS: Review the student applications as they come in and close the posting when you are satisfied with the applicant pool.
• SHARE: It is now time to spread the word! Every posting in Handshake has a unique URL that takes viewers who are logged into Handshake directly to your job description. If you would like to make the URL publicly viewable to share via email and social media, you can add the text /share_preview to the end of your job posting URL.

For additional details about posting jobs to Handshake, visit our Post a Position information for recruiters. Additionally, please review our Recruiting Policies on posting jobs, paid internships, and unpaid internships.

"As an academic advisor, I see a lot of anxiety from students about how their academic choices will impact their future. Will a humanities major lead to job? Should those who want to go into a certain field take on a minor? GCAP not only gave me better tools with which to tackle these questions, but prepared me to make informed referrals and lead conversations about career and grad school preparation even when students don’t know what to ask." -B

"GCAP was an extremely useful program. I gained valuable insight on how to work with students who come in asking about life after graduation. I feel more comfortable asking them questions and exploring their interests before sending them to Career Services. Another enjoyable part of the program was the collaboration among staff from various departments. It was a great opportunity to learn advising techniques from my fellow colleagues. I encourage all advisors to take time out of their busy schedules to attend GCAP. You will not regret it!" -C

The program is divided into three sessions:

Session 1: Career Services Overview, Exploring Majors and Careers, Understanding and Practicing Helping Skills
Session 2: Exploring Graduate School, Gaining Experience, and Getting Hired

Registration opens at the beginning of Summer via email.