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How to Complete Your Handshake Profile

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Handshake helps you find job opportunities by matching your profile with roles that align with your interests and experience. The more complete your profile is, the better it can deliver relevant and personalized job recommendations.

Here are the steps to get you started.

Activate Your Account

Simply log in to Handshake using your standard SSO credentials. 

Complete Your Profile

Handshake will guide you through the process of adding details about the types of jobs you’re seeking and the work experience you bring.  For more details about the process, please review the Completing Your Profile in Handshake article.

Profile Picture

You can use the photo booth in Career Services to get a professional profile picture in less than 15 minutes.

Download The Handshake App

You can use Handshake from your desktop, but you might find it more convenient to use it on your mobile device.  The Handshake app is available on both Android and iOS. Learn more about what you can do on the Handshake Mobile app. 

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How to Leverage the Career Fair Map

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You can access FairMapr directly through your event’s unique link:
Event Link: https://mtuspring26.fairmapr.com/

If you don’t know your event’s unique link, check all events here: https://fairmapr.com/events

Recommended devices

  • Before the fair: Laptop or desktop for planning
  • During the fair: Smartphone for live navigation

In order to sync favorites and employer notes between desktop and mobile, you will need to sign up for a free account. 

Click “Sign In” in the upper right corner and then click “Sign Up”. Creating an account only takes a moment and will ensure your data is saved beyond the current browser session.

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Tips To Get Ready For Spring Career Fair

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Download Handshake and Set Up Your Profile

Don’t wait until you get to the Career Fair — download Handshake ahead of time! You’ll need the app to find the latest information about the companies at the fair.

Companies want to be able to find candidates by searching through Handshake, too! Make sure your profile makes it easy for them to find you.

  • First, learn more about building a public Handshake profile.
  • Next, optimize your resume. Career Services is happy to help with this — don’t forget to share your resume with us once you have it done.
  • Upload your final resume to your Handshake profile and make it public. 
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Leadership & Rotational Programs

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Leadership Development and Rotational Programs offer mentoring and training across a variety of industries and functional areas, helping participants identify where their skills and interests align best within an organization. These structured programs provide opportunities to rotate through multiple roles and business functions, allowing participants to gain broad experience while developing expertise in a primary functional area. Rotations typically last between one and three years and include focused training and professional development throughout the program.

These programs can be excellent in your early career to provide you broad exposure within a company.

To help make it easy to find these programs, Career Services curates a Handshake Collection with many of these opportunities offered by companies that actively recruit on our campus.

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Tips To Get Ready For Career Fair

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Hello from Career Services! We are so excited to kick off the Fall 2025 Career Fair — and we know that many of you are anxiously awaiting the chance to speak with more than 350 employers. With just a week to go, we have compiled some tips to help you minimize your stress and maximize your opportunities.

Download Handshake and Set Up Your Profile

Don’t wait until you get to the Career Fair — download Handshake ahead of time! You’ll need the app to find the latest information about the companies at the fair.

Companies want to be able to find candidates by searching through Handshake, too! Make sure your profile makes it easy for them to find you.

  • First, learn more about building a public Handshake profile.
  • Next, optimize your resume. Career Services is happy to help with this — don’t forget to share your resume with us once you have it done.
  • Upload your final resume to your Handshake profile and make it public. 
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Handshake Collection For Alumni

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Career Services is excited to introduce a new Handshake Collection: By Huskies For Huskies.

Similar to “staff picks” at your favorite bookstore, this curated collection highlights select job opportunities to help you discover roles that may be a great fit.

If you’d like to feature a job from your company in this collection, we’d love to include it! Simply send the URL of your Handshake job posting to career@mtu.edu, and Career Services will manually add it to the By Huskies For Huskies collection.

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SWE Collaboration

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For over six decades, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. Part of our Career Fair traditions include having an “Evening with Industry” (EWI) dinner the night before fall career fair.

EWI is an annual event hosted by the Society of Women Engineers the night before the Fall Career Fair. EWI provides a relaxed environment where students and corporate representatives can interact before the career fair.

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New for 2025: College of Business Career Fair

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We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 College of Business Career Fair at Michigan Tech! The event will take place in Houghton, about a month after the university-wide Career Fair.

The fair will be hosted on our campus in the Memorial Union Building (MUB) Ballroom. We are excited to welcome you and appreciate your participation. We look forward to helping you connect with top talent and making this event a valuable experience for your organization.  The College of Business has many different undergraduate and graduate degrees:

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You’re Invited: Fall 2025 Natural Resources Career Fair

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Michigan Tech’s College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (CFRES) invites you to attend the Fall 2025 Natural Resources Career Fair, held on campus on Thursday, November 6, 2025.

This annual event connects employers with talented students and graduates from a range of natural resources disciplines, including:

  • Forestry
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Applied Ecology and Environmental Science
  • Geographic Information Science (GIS)
  • Environmental Science and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Bioproducts
  • Environmental Data Science
  • Natural Resource Management

Both undergraduate and graduate students from these programs will be in attendance.

Ready to connect with top talent?

To learn more or to register, please visit the fair registration page in Handshake or email us at careerfair@mtu.edu

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Signing Day – Spring 2025

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Graduation is coming fast! What is the ultimate result of all that hard work? Starting a job with a new company, applying those skills in a new occupation, and earning money!

We copied the idea of a high school recruit signing for a new college or a professional athlete getting drafted.  Here are some group photos from the Spring 2025 Design Expo held on campus to highlight Senior Design and Enterprise Projects.

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