"The future isn't human versus AI. It's humans with AI” — Faith Bickel, PRC, Team Lead, Campus Recruiting, Sikich Faith shared her insights at our Codex Creator event, and her message was clear: AI isn't replacing people, but the bar has shifted. The candidates standing out right now aren't the ones who know the most tools. They're the ones with good judgment, genuine curiosity, and the ability to explain their thinking the skills that actually determine how well AI works in someone's hands.
Handshake
Software Development
San Francisco, California 165,081 followers
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy.
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Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 500), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond.
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- 2014
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Handshake
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Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 500), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. Videos, posts, articles, and more from the Handshake community provide inside intel, endless inspo, and everything else needed to help recruiters find qualified candidates and the next generation of talent reach their career goals.
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Handshake is headed to Denver for NACE 2026! 🎉 Join us alongside leaders from Michigan Technological University and Verizon, as we dig into what the latest data on the Class of 2026 tells us about how students are preparing for the future of work, and how schools and employers can best support, recruit, and retain a generation that's both AI-savvy and AI-anxious. 📅 Session Time: Thursday, June 11 at 9:15 AM MT Stop by booth # 801-803 to meet the team + snap a free headshot. 📸 Are you going to NACE this year? Drop a 👋 below.
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Meet the Handshake AI summer intern class of 2026. 🙌 Arjun Sivaraman, Gurshan S., Nishan Yueksel, Abhinav Rajput, Tiffany Zhan, Andreas Jack Christiansen, Ziqi Fang, Altay Hodoglugil, Ishtinarah Q., Haotian Li, Kevin Feng, Dietrich Tribull, Laila Zaidi They found their roles on Handshake. Now they're here helping to build the future of our platform! Working on projects that tackle meaningful problems across our product, from automating developer workflows to shipping features that shape how talent and employers connect. This is what we mean when we say early talent will shape the future of work, applying their skills to help lead the AI economy. They're not just observing…they're building. Get ready for an exciting summer 🤝
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As AI agents take on real-world work, a bottleneck has emerged: grading the work. Our AI research team built Gandalf to solve this: an open-source agentic judge that checks work the way a human expert would, by actually opening files and inspecting the evidence. The result: better accuracy at ~10x lower cost and shifting the cost-quality frontier upward across every model family.
Grading agent rollouts in rubric-graded RL environments is itself a hard task. Prior approaches pass serialized artifacts or agent trajectories to an LLM judge; this loses information / doesn't support sophisticated criteria. In contrast, we built a reactive agentic judge. We evaluated Gandalf, our agentic judge, on a new meta-evaluation dataset called BankerVerifierBench (BVB), built on top of BankerToolBench (BTB), a long-time-horizon investment-banking benchmark. Gandalf achieves the highest performance and is Pareto-optimal on this benchmark compared to baselines.
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This spring, we worked with OpenAI to launch the Codex Creator Challenge, putting powerful tools directly in students' hands to see what they'd create. More than 1,500 of them answered. Students built on their own terms, driven by their own ideas, without anyone telling them what to make or why it mattered. That’s a generation that’s learning and building with confidence and creative ownership. Congrats to our winners — Obinna Nwachukwu, Leonard Alsleben, and Huiying Chung — and to every student who showed up and built something this spring. And a huge thank you to the employers who judged and invested in this challenge: JPMorganChase, ZS, GEICO, Uber, Sikich, Salesforce, L'Oréal, UBS, and KPFF Consulting Engineers. Explore what the winners built and what it means for the future of hiring: https://lnkd.in/erDNXxFR
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Thousands of students built with AI. Three rose to the top. Meet the winners of the Handshake x OpenAI Codex Creator Challenge: 🥇 TraceCode by Obinna Nwachukwu (Georgia Institute of Technology) helps CS students see why their code fails, line by line. 🥈 InfraMap by Leonard Alsleben (Boston College) turns paywalled energy data into an interactive atlas anyone can explore. 🥉 Where Dragons Dwell by Huiying Chung (Arizona State University) stitches dragon myths from 14 world cultures into one universal narrative. All three built with Codex over the course of the challenge. Catch the AI Showcase event live this Wednesday, May 20, where they'll demo their projects alongside Leah Belsky (VP of Education, OpenAI), Randy Tarnowski (Handshake), and recruiting teams from JPMorganChase, ZS, and GEICO https://lnkd.in/ek-wqrWr
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Handshake Access brought together 8K live attendees, 40 speakers across higher ed, talent, and research tackling the conversations that matter most right now. Here are some of our favorite quotes: 1. "Gen Z is the blueprint for the growth of AI." - Christopher Jones, Digital Communication & Media/Multimedia Student (Kennesaw State University) 2. "We have to prepare our students for careers that will look quite different." - John King, Chancellor (The State University of New York) 3. "Early-in-career talent isn't just trying to survive the AI transition — they're going to lead it." - Anne Cheng, Head of Global Executive Talent Acquisition, Early in Career, and Market Intelligence (ServiceNow) 4. "We're looking for intellectual curiosity. We're looking for lifelong learners." -Wendy Stratman Miller, Partner, North American Chief People Officer (McKinsey & Company) Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to the incredible speakers who shared their insights and advice on higher education and the future of work: Gemma Quinn (Salesforce), Maxim Massenkoff (Anthropic), Christina Rojas (Mastercard), Xandro J. DeOliveira (United Airlines), Wendy Stratman Miller (McKinsey & Company), Shantanu Sinha (Google), Ashley Tremblay (Watts Water Technologies), Barbara Richardson (Colorado State University), and many more.
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The conversation at Handshake Access Day 1 was electric. We had experts from Salesforce, Anthropic, and Google breaking down the biggest shifts happening in today's workforce. How early-career roles are evolving, which skills count, and how teams are building a workforce resilient enough to move as the market keeps shifting. Because even with the rise of AI technology, the decisions behind all of this are still fundamentally human: who you bet on, how you develop them, what you build together. Handshake Access exists to bring these conversations to the forefront. Day 1 delivered and we can't wait for Day 2. See you there: https://bit.ly/42NBrfw
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⏰ #HandshakeAccess starts TOMORROW — and spots are going fast. Hear from Google, ServiceNow, Mastercard, McKinsey & Company, Colorado State University, The State University of New York, and more discuss the trends defining what's next in the future of work and AI economy. Secure your spot https://bit.ly/4tjKAaD
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New Handshake Network Trends report is out! While employers and higher education grappled with the roll out of a rapidly evolving general-purpose technology (no easy task!), seniors had the chance to experiment, test, and build. This report shines a light on some of that creativity. A few highlights: ➡️ More than a third of seniors use AI daily — nearly triple the share of the Class of 2024. ➡️ Class of 2026 résumés mention AI 9x as often as the Class of 2022. Two-thirds of those mentions come from non-CS majors. ➡️ 58% of seniors are interested in starting a business. Among them, three in five say AI has influenced their thinking—a thread Jo Constantz explored recently for Bloomberg. Excited to dig into the findings more in the coming weeks. Full report here: https://lnkd.in/ekQSgyN9
Workplace Reporter at Bloomberg News | Covering how AI is reshaping jobs and organizations
Getting hired has become so difficult for new college grads that more students are seriously considering starting something of their own instead. Nearly 60% of the Class of 2026 say they’re interested in starting a business, according to a new Handshake survey of graduating seniors. Among those, three out of five say AI has influenced their thinking. AI's making it faster and cheaper to test ideas, build prototypes and get something off the ground while undergrads are still in school. That's made entrepreneurship look less like a pipe dream and more like a genuine post-grad option. A growing number of college students and recent grads see entrepreneurial side gigs as a way to build their résumés as internships and jobs get harder to land, career coach Jill Tipograph told me. Even if their efforts don’t pan out, the initiative and resilience it takes to get even a modest business off the ground can impress prospective employers. Some students, meanwhile, are drawing serious investor attention. “Students used to take a decade to found companies. Now they’re going from classroom to $4 million in three months," Stanford University professor Charles Eesley told me. That's a lot of pressure for an 18-year-old still adjusting to life away from home. I talked to a few of these young founders (many of whom are still under the US legal drinking age) for the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. Read the full story here (gift link good for 7 days): https://lnkd.in/eCjfNvku