Handshake ups job postings but is met with lukewarm response

Job search season is in full swing, and it's no surprise that many students are already feeling the pressure to line up a summer position or internship.

Handshake, the career platform that Northwestern Career Advancement provides to students, is one way to manage this stressful process. The new platform was implemented in June, replacing both CareerCat and MEDILLINK.

Mark Presnell, the executive director of NCA, said he is pleased with how the transition to Handshake has gone so far.

“We’re close to posting twice as many jobs and internships in the first six months of this year as we did all of last year,” Presnell said. “So from that perspective, we’ve seen a significant increase in the opportunities available to Northwestern students.”

Presnell said that there have been over 20,000 jobs posted on Handshake since the beginning of this year, compared to the yearly average of 10,000 to 12,000 posted on CareerCat.

Presnell added that Handshake is a more user-friendly platform than CareerCat.

“CareerCat was very dependent on the student doing the search,” he said. “Handshake brings that artificial intelligence piece to it, so it can match your interests with the opportunities that are available.”

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