Over the summer, the Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) installed Handshake, a new platform that will assist students with job and internship searches. Handshake replaced the OPCD’s former platform, DeaconSource.
This year, Wake Forest was one of several universities to start using Handshake. A little over a year ago, the OPCD was approached by three recent college graduates from Michigan Technical University who had a new business model for job and internship posting platforms.
“They had a good idea and they had a good basis on which to create this thing that is now called Handshake,” said Patrick Sullivan, associate director of the OPCD.