Creating a Handshake Account as an Alumnus

If you are a graduate of the college and would like to create a Handshake account please follow the steps below:

*If you graduated after 2016, please email our Staff Assistant with the personal email address you would like to use for your Alumni Handshake account. Please do not continue with the steps listed below to create an alumni account since your student account is still in the Handshake system and will then be converted to an alumni account with the personal email address you provide.

Step 1: Create an account on Handshake by registering first

Step 2: Select Student/Alumni and complete the fill-in information. We recommend you use your professional or personal email account since your skidmore.edu email account will be deactivated after six months post graduation. Note: You can create an employer account as well using the same email address to sync both your alumni and employer under Handshake. To do this logout of your student account, go to this link and signup for an employer account using your pre-existing Handshake account email address and password. If you have any questions about this process please contact the Staff Assistant at the CDC.

Step 3: Confirm your Handshake account through the email account you provided and follow the friendly pop-up modal to complete your profile. Note: your education, work experience, extracurriculars, projects, and skills can be completed later. By uploading your resume most of this information will be auto-filled by Handshake. Go to User Settings under your first name (top right) click on the Documents tab then click on New Document to upload your documents (Resume, Cover Letter, Transcript, Work Sample, and Other). 

Step 4: Once you are logged in select your Profile in the left menu then select the Documents tab. Select Build Profile from Resume in order to have the data from your resume parsed. View Parsed Data to select which data you want added to your profile.