Handshake for Students & Alumni

Future students do not receive access to Handshake until after they register for classes at a SOAR session, and will receive an email once their Handshake account is ready for use after SOAR. If you want to access Handshake before your SOAR date, please email us at career@uww.edu and we will set up an account for you.

Once your account had been created by Career Services, you can use these instructions to log in to Handshake:

1. Access Handshake 
2. Click on UW-Whitewater NetID Logon (Students Only)
3. Login with your UWW NetID and password and authenticate with Duo on your phone
4. Answer Handshake's initial set up questions to set your job interests and preferences
5. Complete your profile and upload your current resume

All alumni are welcome to use Handshake regardless of when you graduated from UW-Whitewater.  Please see the instructions below for creating/managing your Handshake account.

Graduated within the last 6 months:

You can log in to your Handshake account with your NetID until 6 months after your graduation date.  If you think you will want to keep using Handshake after that time, you should add your personal email address to your account and set up a password to access Handshake.

1. Access Handshake 
2. Click on UW-Whitewater NetID Logon (Students Only)
3. Login with your UWW NetID and password
4. Add your personal email to your Handshake account and make it your primary email address: View Instructions 
5. Set up Handshake Login Credentials (including a password): View Instructions 
6. When logging in to Handshake in the future, you’ll need to click on “Or log in using your Handshake credentials” under the NetID student login box and use your new login credentials.

Graduated more than 6 months ago:

If you graduated more than 6 months ago but had a Handshake account when you were a student, you have the option of reactivating your previous Handshake account to keep your previous profile or creating a new account.  All students that attended between Spring 2018 and today had a Handshake account created for them and are welcome to reactivate that account.

To Reactivate Your Account:

Email career@uww.edu and provide your name (previous name if it changed since you attended), previous UWW email address and the email address you would like added to your old Handshake account.  We will update the email for you, and you will need to set up a Handshake password.

To Create a New Alumni Account:

Go to Handshake, and click on “No account?  Sign up here.” in the upper left hand corner.  You should use your personal email account to sign up. Handshake may encourage you to use your UWW email, but personal emails are allowed for alumni since you no longer have UWW email access.  After you create your account and verify your email address, please allow 2-3 business days for your account to be approved.