About Handshake HR company in San Francisco, United States
Handshake is the college career network of the future, built to transform the recruiting experience for college students, career centers and employers. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: to help every college student find the right job f
Were driven by the mission to give all students the chance to build the career they want no matter where theyre from or what school they attend.
While studying at Michigan Tech University Handshake founders Garrett Lord Ben Christensen and Scott Ringwelski discovered the glaring inequality in career opportunities for students across the country. Believing that software had the potential to bridge this opportunity gap they built the foundations of Handshake. The friends took their idea on a cross-country road trip to better understand the challenges students face when applying to jobs and to persuade college career centers to partner with them.
Handshake was created to ensure that all college students have equal access to meaningful careers. Since our 2013 founding in Michigan our network of university and employer partners—and the impact for students— has grown exponentially. Within a few years Handshake has become the leading early career community in the US.
Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know where they live or what school they attend. We empathize deeply with our students to increase career opportunities for all.
We stay humble and work hard to democratize opportunity for all students. We like to have fun—and we do—but were always focused on how we can best make an impact.
We believe speed wins and our operational pace is incredibly fast. Moving quickly while staying aligned requires strategic thought collaboration and frequent communication.
We embrace a growth mindset enabling our team to face obstacles with a tenacious desire to turn challenges into opportunities for growth. We are relentlessly curious working to close the gap between what we currently know and what we need to know to be as effective as possible.
We listen closely to understand our users and clients approach challenges with curiosity and treat our colleagues and clients with compassion.
We are building an inclusive and diverse community—both on the Handshake platform and across our team. We believe diverse teams create more thoughtful and innovative solutions and that diverse companies are more successful.
Our team is growing! Join a passionate driven and empathetic team thats focused on making an impact and committed to creating an inclusive culture for all.
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We do this by connecting college students and young alumni to a comprehensive national network, all built on a fast, scalable, mobile infrastructure.
