Our goal is to make it easy to recruit at PennWest!
We can help you plan your recruiting strategy to build your brand and successfully recruit our diverse and talented students and graduates across all three PennWest campuses – California, Clarion and Edinboro – and our online students.
Handshake is PennWest’s recruiting management system. Employers can create an account and connect with PennWest in Handshake to post positions and recruit our students and graduates.
An important consideration for employers offering paid internships is setting intern salaries. To stay competitive, it is also an undertaking that should be performed annually to keep pace with influences and fluctuations that affect salaries.
Some of the steps employers …
Rafiqe Hilliard walked across the stage Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, graduating from PennWest California with dual degrees in studio arts and digital media technology. A native of Chester, Pennsylvania, Hilliard balanced the demands of academics and creativity while competing as …
Employers regard having an internship with their organization or within their industry to be the most influential factors when choosing between two otherwise equally qualified job candidates, according to NACE’s Job Outlook 2026 report. Those attributes were the only two …
