handshake

Handshake is the ultimate recruiting platform for students. It’s the place where students, career centers, and recruiters come to meet, talk, and share opportunities.

We also worked closely with the Handshake team to create and standardize many of their direct sales and marketing tools, which helped their team move faster and more efficiently.

• Marketing Site

• Information Architecture

• Case Studies

• Customization of Knowledge Base & Support Platform

• PDFs & One Pagers to Highlight Key Value Propositions within Sales Efforts

A substantial problem that universities faced once they transitioned from a competitor to Handshake was the ability to get up and running quickly. The data migration needed to provide a great experience was significant. The app needed to be seed with the student and IT data from the registrar's office.

Our engineering team worked with them to round out their current importer that previously failed without continuation.

The existing tool was called the “parser," but it was finicky. It would frequently error out, and usually with only 10% of the import left to go. There was no way to re-run a partial import, and debugging the code was challenging. The error didn’t always happen when the same data was being ingested. As you can imagine, this provided a pretty frustrating user experience.

After being handed a skeleton proof-of-concept project on a new build, we fleshed it out with unit and integration tests to cover existing functionality. Unlike parser, the importer was designed to keep data in sync, not just a one-time import of key data from university legacy systems.