Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 21 of 97, unchanged
3 categories · RankedHandshake
38Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Recruitment marketing for enterprise buyers
Rank 27 of 111 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business24 of 102
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market27 of 111
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise25 of 92
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
In job advertising · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Handshake for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising and distribution | Talent acquisition | 0% | 27 of 111 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 33 of 104 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 54 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Handshake held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Job advertising · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 20 → 26 of 103
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 21 → 22 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job advertising | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 20 → 27 of 111 |
| Recruitment marketing | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 46 → 33 of 104 |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 54 of 136, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Handshake across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Handshake across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct8 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative23 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Consider Wellfound or Handshake Basic for free job postings to qualified candidates” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Staffing agency tools · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for: College recruiting, internships, early-career and new-graduate hiring” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Job advertising · comparative prompt · alternative
“when scale, workflow depth, or campus recruiting matter” Perplexity Sonar · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Handshake—when the role fits its audience” GPT-6 Luna · Job advertising · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Handshake, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Handshake was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Handshake, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Handshake was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Handshake. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 36 of the 38 answers that named Handshake and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com18
learn.g2.com18
joveo.com16
noon.ai11
selectsoftwarereviews.com11
firsthr.app10
pin.com9
bestjobsearchapps.com8
100hires.com7
builtin.com7
115 of the 115 domain citations in answers naming Handshake came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
joinhandshake.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Handshake takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.ShowHide
Search and answers
joinhandshake.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Handshake takes 0% of first choices and JobTarget takes 23%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “job advertising platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “programmatic job advertising platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000,000 a month (“handshake”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 11,179 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,070,409 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 153,321 · 4,353 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 21,418
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 861 clicks and $3,768 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 27 of 111 in job advertising
Segment leader
23%
JobTarget
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 38 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 36 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on joinhandshake.com
110,431
subdomains included
Content
1,369
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
7 · 0
| 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.
Names read as Handshake
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Handshake; a claim can dispute any of them.
Handshake Basic 2Handshake for Employers 2
Follow Handshake
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The company
Handshake is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Handshake is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the career network for the AI economy
- For
- Students, employers, and career centers
- Price stated
- Free; $450 per month; Contact for pricing; Starting from $34/day; Flexible rate joinhandshake.com/employers/pricing
- Starting price
- Free joinhandshake.com/employers/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free joinhandshake.com/employers/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIPCI DSSCyber EssentialsTX-RAMPGDPRCCPAEU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
- Hosting
- United StatesGermanyWestern Europe
- Customers named
- DisneyTikTokMcDonald'sTargetBoxEYJohnson & JohnsonIBM
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Handshake's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: joinhandshake.com, joinhandshake.com/employers/pricing, trust.joinhandshake.com, joinhandshake.com/employers/products/basic, joinhandshake.com/employers/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Handshake's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Handshake, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Handshake by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Handshake is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Handshake, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.