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Skills tags are an important ingredient in a digital badge. They can link badges to live labour market information and support earners to identify their transferrable skills when seeking future opportunities.
It is important to ensure that any skills tags you intend to add to your badge are mentioned in your earning criteria to avoid them being removed as part of our Quality Assurance process.
Making sure that skills tags are referenced in your earning criteria is an easy way to add detail to your badge and will support earners to clearly identify transferable skills and how they have applied them. It can also help your badge to pass the Stranger Test.
While you may feel that some skills are a given as part of your activity, it is not always obvious to earners that may struggle to communicate how their experiences have led to developing skills. For this reason, we recommend referring to all skills tags you intend to add to your badge in your earning criteria.
We recommend using the Navigatr Skills Scanner powered by Lightcast to produce tags for your badge, but you are very welcome to use your own skills language or add tags that aren’t generated using the scanner.
An easy tip for referencing skills tags is to start with your list of tags and create accompanying earning criteria exploring these skills, for example, if your list of tags is:
Presentation, Communication, Information, Professionalism, Research, Collaboration, Teamwork, Ambassador
Your new earning criteria could be:
- “Earner has demonstrated excellent presentation and communication skills by interacting with people to provide information on XX.”
- “Earner has demonstrated professionalism and expertise in their given field by participating in XX.”
- “Earner has undertaken research to provide the most up-to-date advice and guidance to XX.”
- “Earner has supported the aims and outcomes of XX through collaboration with XX, demonstrating excellent teamwork throughout.”
- “Earner has acted as a positive ambassador for XX.”