When building your Career Center and/or your Appointment Types in Handshake, please be aware that Syracuse University Career Services has established core appointment types by researching and crowdsourcing the available appointment types across campus since 2018.Upon further investigation, Syracuse University Career Services has created the following guideline to setting up your Career Center in Handshake. Core Appointment Types - Career Pathways and Exploration: All major exploration, general questions, graduate school inquiries, or related.
- Interview Preparation or Mock Interview: All conversations regarding preparing for an interview or providing mock interviews. Pre-appointment messaging to students should recommend engagement with Big Interview.
- Job Offers and Negotiation Skills: All conversations regarding negotiating an active or pending job offer.
- Networking Strategies, Tools, and Engagement: All conversations around brand management, professional social media engagement, alumni engagement, mentorship opportunities, or related. Pre-appointment messaging to students should recommend engagement with completing their Handshake Profile to 100% and Firsthand.
- Resume and Cover Letter Preparation OR
- Resume, Cover Letter, or Portfolio Preparation: All opportunities for professional documentation preparation, including, but not limited to, graduate school application reviews. When relevant, pre-appointment messaging to students should recommend engagement with VMock.
- Job, Internship, Co-op Search Strategy: All conversations regarding how to approach the job, internship, research, co-op, or related experience strategies. This includes, but not limited to, opportunities for research experience for undergraduates (REU's), Invent@SU, and related. Pre-appointment messaging to students should recommend engagement with completing their Handshake Profile to 100%.
These appointment types define the core business of Career Services at Syracuse University and reflect directly to our Syracuse University Shared Competencies. Core Appointment Time Frames Each of the above Appointment Types should allow for a minimum of 30 minutes with each student. This is a balanced enough time to allow for students to be given holistic attention to their career development experience with your office, while also allowing your office to reach a reasonable population of students in your scope by the end of each semester or academic year. Optional If your team expertise deems a new appointment type should be created due to the specificity of your office, please feel free to create additional appointment types with their appropriate time frames as your team feels is necessary. However, please be advised, that the above core appointment types will be assessed annually by Syracuse University Career Services and should remain consistent throughout campus. Appointment Type Style It is highly recommended that appointment types are setup in Handshake to reflect subject matter content only. This is due to the way Handshake records historical data. For example: Appointments associated to specific staff individuals will become hard to manage through data assessment if there is any average-level of turnover in any given office. If an appointment type is updated with a new individual's name, each historical reference to the appointment data sets in Handshake would have incomplete or inconsistent data. |