Post a Job

What does it offer my company?

Gain access to a pool of highly-educated, diverse, motivated, prospective employees. Communicate information about your brand and values to UC Riverside Students. Whatever your organization's hiring needs, from graduating students seeking Full-Time career positions to current students interested in Part-Time or Internship Opportunities, UCR students form a resource not to be overlooked.

How do I post a job?

Posting job and internship listings at the University of California, Riverside is free. Click on the Employer log in button under the UCR Handshake icon on the right of any Career Center page. Job and internship listings are available 24 hours a day to the student population online via our password-protected UCR Handshake site. Opportunities posted are exclusively for UCR students and UC alumni.

To use UCR's job posting service, UCR Handshake, you need to register if you haven't done so already. The process is quick and easy: click the Employer Log In link (found to the top right of every employer-related screen), select "Sign up for an account". Soon after you register, you will receive a confirmation email providing login information.

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**Reminder: Effective 1/1/23, the CA minimum wage rates for all employers will increase to $15.50 based on inflation regardless of number of employees at the organization. Read more HERE.

Off-Campus Employers

Create a UCR Handshake Profile

Visit app.joinhandshake.com to create a new UCR Handshake profile. If you already have a profile, add UCR to your school list. For help getting started, visit UCR Handshake's support. Once you have signed up, you will receive an e-mail to verify your information.

Click on the link in the e-mail to finish the registration process. After you have finished creating a company profile or joining an existing company, you can connect with UCR in the "Schools" tab in UCR Handshake by searching for "Riverside." Your request to connect with UCR will be reviewed within 5 business days.

Posting a Job/Internship

Once your account/profile has been approved, you will be able to log into UCR Handshake and post a job. For assistance, view UCR Handshake's article "How do I post a job?"

For further assistance, visit the UCR Handshake Help Center.
On-Campus Employers

Create a UCR Handshake Profile

In an effort to keep UCR Handshake as straightforward as possible for students, each department should have their own company account. Visit app.joinhandshake.com to create a new UCR Handshake profile. For help getting started, visit UCR Handshake's support. Once you have signed up, you will receive an email to verify your information. Click on the link in the e-mail to finish the registration process.

Important Tip: The next step is to create and/or join your department. First, search for your department in the company name field. If your department does not have an existing account, create an employer account by prefacing your campus department with UCR, e.g., UCR, Botany and Plant Sciences or UCR, Office of TRiO Programs.

After you have finished creating a department profile or joining an existing department, you can connect with UCR in the "Schools" tab in UCR Handshake by searching for "Riverside." Your request to connect with UCR will be reviewed within 5 business days.

View the video below for step-by-step instructions.

Posting a Job/Internship

Once your account/profile has been approved, you will be able to log into UCR Handshake and post a job. For assistance, view UCR Handshake's article "How do I post a job?"

Important Tip: Work-Study positions will only be viewable by students who have received a work-study award. If you are able and open to hiring non-work-study students, please post the position twice: once as work-study and once as non-work-study. For more information about how to recruit and hire a work-study student, visit https://careers.ucr.edu/employers/work-study.

For further assistance, visit the UCR Handshake Help Center.
Neighborhood Jobs
Many community members and UCR staff and faculty use UCR Handshake to post tutoring, childcare/eldercare, manual labor, and other odd jobs.

Create a UCR Handshake Profile

Go to https://app.joinhandshake.com/login to create a user profile. Click on Sign up for an Account. You will be prompted to use a "company" email, but you can go ahead and sign up with a gmail, yahoo, or other 3rd party email. For help getting started, visit UCR Handshake's support. Once you have signed up, you will receive an email to verify your information. Click on the link in the e-mail to finish the registration process.

Important Tips:
- In the company name field, enter Neighborhood Job - Last Name, for example Neighborhood Job - Smith;
- In the web site field, enter http://careers.ucr.edu/employers/post-a-job
- In the description field, enter a description of who you are, e.g., individual or household/family. Do not enter the job here. You will have a chance to do that once your account has been approved.
After you have finished creating a company profile, you can connect with UCR in the "Schools" tab in UCR Handshake by searching for "Riverside." Your request to connect with UCR will be reviewed within 5 business days.

Posting a Job

Once your account/profile has been approved, you will be able to log into UCR Handshake and post a job. For assistance, view UCR Handshake's article "How do I post a job?"

For further assistance, visit the UCR Handshake Help Center.