Built for how campuses are organized
One campus, several career centers, one system
A university rarely has one career office. Engineering, business, design and the central center each run their own employers, events and coaching, often with their own budgets. Career Forge gives each one its own career center on one system, with the institution's settings made once.
Two levels, on purpose
Set once for the institution, owned by each career center
The institution sets once
- Branding and the look students see
- The picklists every center shares: majors, school years, degree levels, position types, work authorizations, and the qualifications job postings match students against
- Single sign-on with the campus identity provider
- The student ID card layout the check-in kiosks read
Each career center owns
- Staff, their roles and permissions
- Employers, their approvals and the deny reasons staff choose from
- Events, registrations, pricing, packages and invoices
- Coaching topics, coaches, locations, booking limits and appointment emails
- Experiential learning approval flows and their steps
- Interview rooms, blocks and resources
- Job approvals and surveys
From the configuration tables on each product page, which follow the help centre.
What each person sees
Start with one office
A college can start on its own
A college-level career office can start on Career Forge while the rest of the campus stays where it is. Georgia Tech's Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the University of Florida's College of Design, Construction and Planning, UMass Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences and UCF's Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering each run their own career center on it. When a second office joins, it gets its own place: the University of Michigan has two career centers on Career Forge, the Engineering Career Resource Center and Taubman College, and Auburn runs two as well.
Compared with
How the others handle more than one career center
| Platform | Several career centers on one campus | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Career Forge | Each career center runs its own portal: its own employers, approvals, coaching topics, events and invoices, with branding, picklists, staff and single sign-on set once at the institution level. | The platform |
| Handshake | One school instance. Handshake Support can add career centers inside it; employers, jobs, students and contacts are shared across the instance, while appointment types, interview schedules, event preferences and branding pages can be set per center. Stripe payments cannot be set up per career center; TouchNet and CASHNet can. | Handshake Help: Multiple career centers, workflow considerations |
| Symplicity | Not described as a product feature on its site. Its customer stories describe campuses consolidating several career offices onto one platform. | Symplicity: Georgia Tech success story |
| 12twenty | One site per school. Admin groups limit a staff member to a slice of students, such as one college; a separate site per career center is not described on its site. | 12twenty Help: Admin groups |
Statements about other products come from their own sites, re-read on 4 November 2026; the full comparisons are under Why Career Forge.
Questions campuses ask
Yes. Each career center has its own portal, employers, approvals, events, invoices and coaching, and its own staff. The institution's branding, picklists and single sign-on are set once and shared.
No. One college's career office can adopt Career Forge on its own. Others join later and get their own career center under the same institution.
No. One login and one portal. A student who belongs to several centers sees all of them there.
Once. An employer account works across every career center on Career Forge; the employer chooses which centers to post to or register with, and each center approves for itself.
Yes. Pricing, packages, registrations and invoices belong to the center that runs the event, so each office keeps its own books.
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