3 categories · RankedHandshake
Handshake is a career network for students, employers, and career centers · joinhandshake.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Manatal is first at 19%.
Teamtailor is first at 39%.
Phenom is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“for early-career or technical hiring, add Handshake or Dice as appropriate”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
“Especially useful if you hire students and recent graduates.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for Interns, Entry-Level, and Recent Graduates”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
“Add Handshake if hiring entry-level workers”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Handshake, over the 40 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 13 | View → | |
| 24 | 5 | View → | |
| 23 | 8 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Handshake →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Handshake's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Students, employers, and career centers
- Price stated
- Free; $450 per month; Contact for pricing; Starting from $34/day; Flexible rate
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, TX-RAMP, GDPR, CCPA, EU-US DPF
- Hosting
- United States, Germany, Western Europe
- Customers named
- Disney, TikTok, McDonald's, Target, Box, EY, Johnson & Johnson, IBM
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 39 of the 40 answers that named Handshake and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
108 of the 108 domain citations in answers naming Handshake came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,051 | undated | Workforce planning, Applicant tracking syste | ||
| News or press | 183 | 11 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 58 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 27 | undated | |||
| Case study | 23 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 6 | 1 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Research study participant paid in person conference or event
- 2026-09-17Ann mHwkYo39wi26d news or press
- 2026-09-01Ann Dhpq6pSaj8oAa news or press
- 2026-08-28Ann zc9kyrL6GPXEM news or press
- 2026-08-28Ann zG3lMMHG6nNGu news or press
- 2026-08-17Ann uXKwGVRqrmp0I news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page joinhandshake.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.