Centralized interview management
Schedule, manage and record interviews between employers and students, on campus or virtual, with or without a job posting.
Invitation-only, open, or record-keeping, with or without a job
Invitation-only blocks are visible to invited students; open blocks to any qualified student with the link; record-keeping blocks track interviews that happened elsewhere, from an uploaded list. None of them needs a job posting first.
- Set up an interview block without a job posting, or link one when it exists
- Rooms and resources for on-campus and virtual interviews
- Recruiters set availability and invite candidates; staff keep oversight
- Students pick the slots that fit their schedule
Set once, at the level it belongs to
Each career center on a campus runs its own interviews; what the institution shares is set once for all of them.
| Setting | Set where |
|---|---|
| Rooms, meeting links and other resources interviews use | Per career center |
| Block type: invitation-only, open to any qualified candidate with the link, or record-keeping | Per block |
| A linked job posting, or none | Per block |
| Who is invited, and the time slots | Per block |
| A recruiter's own availability and invitations | Per recruiter |
Interviews next to Handshake’s
The question a center with an active on-campus interview program asks first: does an interview need a job posting?
| Career Forge | Handshake | |
|---|---|---|
| A schedule without a posting | Yes. Any block type can be created on its own; a job is linked when there is one. | Students can apply to an interview schedule only once an approved job is attached; room-only schedules are the exception. Source |
| Interviews that happened elsewhere | Record-keeping blocks log them from an uploaded list, for reporting and history. | Not described on its site. Source |
Statements about Handshake come from its own help center, linked in each row. The full comparison
What Interviews does not make you do
No job posting required
An interview block stands on its own. Link a posting when there is one; set one up without it when there is not, which is how most on-campus interview days actually start.
Interviews that already happened still count
A record-keeping block takes an uploaded list of candidates and logs the interviews for reporting and history, with no scheduling at all.
Recruiters schedule, staff keep oversight
Recruiters set their availability and invite candidates directly; the career center sees every block and every booking.
Questions people ask about Interviews
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