Accepting alumni access requests
Approving/Declining Alumni Requests
1. Log into your Career Services/Administrative Handshake account; on your homepage you will see and person icon in the top, right-hand corner of the screen. If there are pending requests there will be a red bubble, with a number in it. Click on that.
2. In a new tab open up Abila Milenium (http://deviis.dev.wmich.edu/mill/login.htm)
- Use the login: eu0, and contact Ewa Urban for the password
- If you get an error message, try to login in a new internet browser; the website doesn’t work well in Google Chrome
- If somebody else is logged in, you will get an error message telling you that, you can try to login later
3. Once logged into Abila, on the left-hand side you will see a toolbar, click on the “Profiles” link
- In the “Name/id” box enter the name “lastname/firstname” and search (Example: Buster Bronco would be “bronco/buster”)
- A list of names will come up from the search, match the name of the user request with the name in the list
If there NOT a match, do not accept the request
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Search for the name of the user requesting access
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If there is not match, go back to Handshake and click the red “Reject” button
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If there is a match that says the requester is a student, go back to Handshake and click the red “Reject” button. Then send the following message to the requester’s email:
Hello (persons first name),
Thank you for your interest in Handshake at Western Michigan University. We have received your request for access and have verified that you are a student of WMU. To access jobs in Handshake please go to: wmich.joinhandshake.com and select 'WMU Student Login'.
Thank you, (Your Name)
If there IS a match, go back to Handshake and click on the green “Approve”
- Go to the alumni’s account
- In the top right-hand corner, click on the "Account" tab
- In the "School Year" drop-down menu, choose "Alumni"
- Make sure the "Exclude from Automatic Syncs" box is checked
4. When finished, make sure you “Log Off” from Abila Millennium, in the left-hand side toolbar, or nobody else can login.
5. If you have any questions ask Brenda Case-Parris or Handshake staff