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Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Look back at 2024 Gen Z recruiting strategies, and get tips for 2025.

Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

If you haven’t gotten started yet with your up-funnel recruiting strategy on Handshake, here are 6 tips for building a brand that early talent loves.

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

Learn content themes that resonate with your target audience, tips for mapping content to your goals, and a sample content calendar.

How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

With 79% of Pennymac’s early talent hires influenced on Handshake, learn how the team is intentional about solving specific pain points with specific solutions.

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

Handshake Network Trends

Big dreams, bigger challenges for the Class of 2025

Seniors have ambitious plans for their careers, but they're feeling the heat of a tight job market on top of student loans, the impact of AI, and a turbulent political climate.

Big dreams, bigger challenges for the Class of 2025

Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Look back at 2024 Gen Z recruiting strategies, and get tips for 2025.

Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Early talent recruiting tips

Back to school checklist for recruiters

Get ahead of the busy recruiting season. Use this checklist to prepare for how you'll stand out to early talent both on- and off-campus.​​​​

Back to school checklist for recruiters

8 tips to attract & engage students with stronger messaging campaigns

Use messaging Campaigns to make a positive impression of your brand, drive engaging interactions with students, and save time.

8 tips to attract & engage students with stronger messaging campaigns

5 tips to improve your job description and attract early talent

From writing with inclusive language to highlighting the skills that can be learned on the job, use these tips to uplevel your job descriptions to attract early talent.

5 tips to improve your job description and attract early talent

Employer branding

How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

Learn content themes that resonate with your target audience, tips for mapping content to your goals, and a sample content calendar.

How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

If you haven’t gotten started yet with your up-funnel recruiting strategy on Handshake, here are 6 tips for building a brand that early talent loves.

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

Your game plan for winning early talent

The criteria used to determine Handshake Early Talent Award winners is also a way to evaluate the health of your recruiting program. Find out what makes an early talent recruiting program more impactful than others—and what you can do to make the list.

Your game plan for winning early talent

Handshake tools & tips

Handshake 101 for employers

Handshake is the trusted early career platform for students and alumni, employers, and education partners.

Handshake 101 for employers

Recruit more efficiently—with Handshake Premium

Do you have the tools to access early talent at scale? Finding the right candidates for your roles is easy. Source, target and message candidates on the nation’s largest early talent network.

Recruit more efficiently—with Handshake Premium

5 Reasons to upgrade to Talent Engagement Suite

Employers using TES have 2x more quality applications and receive 7x more responses. Learn why.

5 Reasons to upgrade to Talent Engagement Suite

Customer spotlights

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

With 79% of Pennymac’s early talent hires influenced on Handshake, learn how the team is intentional about solving specific pain points with specific solutions.

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

Lean team, big impact: How Manassas City Public Schools achieved a 25x boost in applicants.

The Manassas City Public Schools district turned to Handshake Talent Engagement Suite (TES) to build a pipeline of quality teacher candidates and confront the nationwide teacher shortage with a strategy driven by data and efficiency.

Lean team, big impact: How Manassas City Public Schools achieved a 25x boost in applicants.

Staying prepared through market conditions: Q&A with MoLo Solutions on building a consistent candidate pipeline

A lean team with changing hiring goals, MoLo Solutions relies on Handshake so they can be flexible in their early talent acquisition strategy.

Staying prepared through market conditions: Q&A with MoLo Solutions on building a consistent candidate pipeline

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How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

Learn content themes that resonate with your target audience, tips for mapping content to your goals, and a sample content calendar.

How to create content for the Handshake feed (with calendar template)

Back to school checklist for recruiters

Get ahead of the busy recruiting season. Use this checklist to prepare for how you'll stand out to early talent both on- and off-campus.​​​​

Back to school checklist for recruiters

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

With 79% of Pennymac’s early talent hires influenced on Handshake, learn how the team is intentional about solving specific pain points with specific solutions.

How Pennymac uses Handshake for data-driven university recruiting

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

If you haven’t gotten started yet with your up-funnel recruiting strategy on Handshake, here are 6 tips for building a brand that early talent loves.

Try these 6 things to build your employer brand on Handshake

Lean team, big impact: How Manassas City Public Schools achieved a 25x boost in applicants.

The Manassas City Public Schools district turned to Handshake Talent Engagement Suite (TES) to build a pipeline of quality teacher candidates and confront the nationwide teacher shortage with a strategy driven by data and efficiency.

Lean team, big impact: How Manassas City Public Schools achieved a 25x boost in applicants.

Watch: Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Discover how major, industry, employer brand, location, and more impact early talent’s decision to apply.

Watch: Gen Z hiring trends for 2025

Maximizing early talent investment and ROI: C-suite alignment guide

Being able to attract qualified candidates at scale and develop loyal talent is critical to securing business resilience and growth that won’t react to market shifts.

Maximizing early talent investment and ROI: C-suite alignment guide

Staying prepared through market conditions: Q&A with MoLo Solutions on building a consistent candidate pipeline

A lean team with changing hiring goals, MoLo Solutions relies on Handshake so they can be flexible in their early talent acquisition strategy.

Staying prepared through market conditions: Q&A with MoLo Solutions on building a consistent candidate pipeline

General Mills’ strategy for successful campus recruiting events

Learn how General Mills tells their brand story to students across the US with a dynamic virtual campus recruiting events strategy.

General Mills’ strategy for successful campus recruiting events