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Handshake is a college career recruiting network experience for college students, career centers, and employers. The company's network helps users receive career opportunities and insights by connecting college students and young alumni with employers.
The company's network includes about 1,400 educational institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges, and boot camps. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with about 850,000+ employers from public school districts, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and sports teams.
Headquartered in San Francisco with a global reach, the company also has offices in Denver, New York, and London. In 2023, the company included an events application to its platform, designed to help employers and students with hybrid college job fairs.
Handshake is a decentralized permissionless system that is intended to incentivize a distributed network of computers to operate a system for domain name ownership.
Under Handshake, every peer is tasked with validating and managing the root DNS naming zone, with the objective of providing an alternative to current certificate authorities and naming systems.
Different participants across the internet such as social networking handles and domains rely on a centralized approach. This means the systems depend on a system of honesty — and are still prone to cyber attacks and fraud.
Handshake aims to eradicate this problem by creating a decentralized internet that relies on a peer-to-peer system.
