Your impact

We’re looking for a highly organized, collaborative, and curious contract Recruiting Coordinator to help us grow our team. You’ll play a key role in delivering a people-first hiring experience by managing interview logistics, welcoming candidates, and ensuring a positive interaction along the hiring process. The ideal candidate is proactive, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. You’re eager to learn, take initiative, and build strong partnerships across teams.

Your role

• Schedule and coordinate interviews efficiently while ensuring a seamless candidate experience

• Operate within our recruiting tools with precision and maintain clean, accurate data

• Communicate with professionalism, empathy, and discretion

• Represent Handshake as a warm and welcoming point of contact for candidates

• Support strategic coordination projects

Your experience

• 1+ years of scheduling or coordination experience, ideally in a high-energy, fast-paced setting

• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills

• Impeccable attention to detail and strong written communication

• A bias for action, humility, and a growth mindset

• Sound judgment and comfort handling sensitive information

Bonus experience

• Experience with Ashby

About us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.

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