Handshake

Handshake (joinhandshake.com) is the early-career talent network that connects students and recent graduates with employers, alongside the higher-education Career Services teams that support them. For developers and institutional integrators, Handshake exposes the EDU API: a read-only, institution-scoped, versioned API for career-services data management and automation, covering applications, appointments, career fairs, jobs, postings, qualifications, and meetings. The EDU API is currently in beta and gated to Career Services partners, authenticates with an x-api-key header issued from the Developer Portal, and supports pagination, sorting, and delta fetching. Handshake was originally added to the API Evangelist network as a VC portfolio lead and has since been enriched from its public developer documentation, trust center, and status surfaces.

Handshake publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hr Tech, Careers, Recruiting, and Higher Education.

Handshake’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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39.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

CompanyHr TechCareers Recruiting Higher Education Talent Students Job

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 39.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.7 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conventions

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

TrustCenter

Compliance

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: handshake
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/handshake.png
name: Handshake
description: 'Handshake (joinhandshake.com) is the early-career talent network that connects students and recent graduates
  with employers, alongside the higher-education Career Services teams that support them. For developers and institutional
  integrators, Handshake exposes the EDU API: a read-only, institution-scoped, versioned API for career-services data management
  and automation, covering applications, appointments, career fairs, jobs, postings, qualifications, and meetings. The EDU
  API is currently in beta and gated to Career Services partners, authenticates with an x-api-key header issued from the Developer
  Portal, and supports pagination, sorting, and delta fetching. Handshake was originally added to the API Evangelist network
  as a VC portfolio lead and has since been enriched from its public developer documentation, trust center, and status surfaces.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/handshake/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- eqt-ventures
- ggv-capital
- greylock
- kleiner-perkins
- lightspeed-venture-partners
- pantera-capital
- point-nine
- spark-capital
- true-ventures
- uncork-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Hr Tech
- Careers
- Recruiting
- Higher Education
- Talent
- Students
- Job
tags_raw:
- Company
- Hr Tech
- Careers
- Recruiting
- Higher Education
- Talent
- Students
- Jobs
apis:
- name: Handshake EDU API
  description: 'Read-only, institution-scoped EDU API for career-services data: applications, appointments, career fairs,
    jobs, postings, qualifications, and meetings. Authenticates via x-api-key header; supports pagination, sorting, and delta
    fetching. Beta; access gated to Career Services partners.'
  humanURL: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/31061076506391-Getting-Started-with-EDU-API
  baseURL: https://edu-api.joinhandshake.com
  tags:
  - EDU API
  - Career Services
  - Higher Education
  properties:
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/31061076506391-Getting-Started-with-EDU-API
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/35762729693719-EDU-API-Endpoint-Definitions
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/handshake-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.joinhandshake.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://edu-api.joinhandshake.com:444/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/sections/31055822163351-API
- type: APIReference
  url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/35762729693719-EDU-API-Endpoint-Definitions
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/31061076506391-Getting-Started-with-EDU-API
- type: Support
  url: https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://joinhandshake.com/blog
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.joinhandshake.com/access?user_type=employer
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://joinhandshake.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://joinhandshake.com/legal/tos/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.joinhandshake.com/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/handshake-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/handshake-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/handshake-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/handshake-conventions.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/handshake-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.joinhandshake.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://joinhandshake.com/security
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/handshake-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/handshake-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/handshake-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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