Personal IU page · Handshake content · not official Handshake
Handshake influencer · Digital Humans Project Lead at Luddy · Informatics @ Indiana University (IU) · May 2027
A persona has to feel real, or people bounce.
I publish Handshake content for students and early-career people: workplace norms, professional communication, career decisions, and the systems underneath a first job. That is what this page is for.
Digital Humans research at Luddy LINK is the spine. When artificial intelligence (AI) looks and talks like a person, trust, disclosure, and whether people keep using it are the same questions I already practise in a Handshake feed. Serve IT ships and campus mentoring sit underneath. Technical proof lives on jadexzhao.
Handshake content creator work, August 2023 to present. Practical posts for students and people in their first jobs ... how work actually feels, how to talk to people, and how to decide without pretending the market is simple.
Career centres already tell students the profile has to be findable and feel real. CU Boulder Career Services says a public Handshake profile is five times more likely to be found and messaged by employers, and that skills are the primary field recruiters search (CU Boulder Career Services). NYU Wasserman notes Handshake defaults to a fully public profile unless you opt out (NYU Wasserman, Handshake Info). Ohio State tells students the more Handshake knows about you, the better it can deliver relevant content (Ohio State Handshake). IU’s Walter Center says make the profile public so employers can find you, and that after job interests they search work experience, skills, and clubs (Walter Center for Career Achievement, IU, 2026). UW-Madison Career Services still calls Handshake the number one way college students find jobs, and asks students to complete a profile plus career interests (UW-Madison Career Services, 2026).
Handshake-claimed market facts, not my personal reach: Class of 2026 students averaged 23 applications per full-time job, double the class of 2023 (Handshake Economic Research, 2026). Handshake names 1,600+ educational institutions (Handshake About, 2026). Purdue replaced Handshake with Career Gateway in summer 2026 (Purdue CCO), and UT Austin moved its campus hub to 12twenty@Texas on 2 June 2025 while still pointing students to Handshake’s open job network (UT Austin Career Success, 2025), so the current career-centre hub link still matters.
In a feed that crowded, the voice still has to sound like a person. Students on r/college already ask whether Handshake recruiters are actual people or automated messages (r/college, public thread title). That is the Digital Humans question on a career feed. That is why this work sits next to Digital Humans, not instead of it.
I already publish on Handshake. Who it is for: classmates, first-generation students, and people trying to look like themselves on a campus career network. Profile on Handshake (full view may need a Handshake login).
Handshake · early-career content
How AI-driven virtual personas might fit real business workflows. Trust, disclosure, adoption. Same question as the Handshake feed: will people keep using a person-shaped interface? Case: zhao-langxi.
Digital Humans · AI · UX (user experience)
Web builds for nonprofit partners without in-house engineering. Proof a system has to hold after the demo ... underneath the pairing, not the hero.
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) · React · PostgreSQL
Floor, till, kitchen in Greenfield. After COVID-19, I helped rebuild the family restaurant website and social channels. That was the first time a public voice had to hold for real customers.
The longer story is on About. This door stays Handshake content intersecting Digital Humans.