# Handshake

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/handshake/  
**Website:** https://www.joinhandshake.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 39.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 57.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Handshake EDU API** — Read-only, institution-scoped EDU API for career-services data: applications, appointments, career fairs, jobs, postings, qualifications, and meetings. Authenticates via x-api-k...

## Security (4)

- **Handshake Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Handshake Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Handshake Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · contact published
- **Handshake Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, TX-RAMP, UK Cyber Essentials, GDPR, CCPA, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

## Tags

Company, Hr Tech, Careers, Recruiting, Higher Education, Talent, Students, Job

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/handshake/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.