What benefits do Digital Badges have for the people I award them to?

• Badges recognise accomplishments and achievements that cannot be formally accredited, where experience outside of qualifications is highly valued and often not well documented.
• No achievement is too small to be badged! Any accomplishment, however small, can be the start of a journey to a better future.
• Badges provide the ultimate tool for providing verified employer references in an emerging freelance workforce.
• Badges give earners the power and language to better tell their stories by clearly displaying the activities they have engaged with and transferrable skills gained along the way, in language that employers understand.
• Badges support earners to use the experiences, skills, and competencies they have developed by working with your organisation to take positive steps in their own lives.

Have you ever been completely stuck writing a cover letter for a job application, updating your CV, or applying for a course? It can be immensely difficult to articulate the skills you have and the experience you’ve gained from a lifetime of various activities. 

Digital badges are a fantastic tool for giving earners the power and language to better tell their stories by clearly spelling out the activity that they have carried out and the attitudes they’ve gained along the way, while giving them language that employers understand. What is particularly useful about this is highlighting transferrable skills that may not – at first glance – be seen as relevant. 

For example, having attended a school career fair might not seem important on a university application, but having a record of an attendee badge that spells out seeking new information and networking with potential employers to improve communication skills, can show that the earner has previously taken it upon themselves to broaden their horizons and is comfortable conversing about new topics or ideas, giving them the exact words to articulate that experience.