Write a badge for an internship / placement

This is the long title for the badge and the first opportunity to provide detail. You should include the job title / role an earner has completed. You might also like to include your organisation name.

Who will this badge be issued to?
- Select “Individuals”.

Badge Name – Short Title
- Include the job title / role or a shortened version (maximum 30 characters including spaces).

Badge Description
- This should be a brief summary of the badge. For more information, please see Writing a great badge description.

Be sure to include the internship / placement length, title/role, and an overview of what earners achieve by completing it e.g.
“Earners of this badge have successfully completed a 3-month internship as a Business Administrator in a small and busy team.”

URL for Additional Details
- Include a link to your organisation’s website so that anyone viewing the badge online can easily find information about you or other internship / placement or job opportunities that you offer.

Badge Standard Layer
- Select “Demonstrate”.

Sector / Industry:
- Select the sector / industry that your organisation or the specific internship / placement relates to. If you feel none apply, select “Other” and enter a relevant sector or industry into the box that appears below.

Topic / Theme / Curriculum Area:
- Enter a term for the area of study or learning that the internship / placement has taken place in to refine the Sector / Industry.

E.g., if your answer to Sector / Industry was “Engineering”, you might refine this by using “Civil Engineering” as your topic.

Sub – Topic / Theme / Curriculum Area:
- Entering an answer here is optional but is available if you would like to provide another generic tag that can add additional context to your answers above e.g. “Highway Drainage”.

This section is the place to detail what your earners have achieved throughout their internship / placement. For more information on how to complete this section, please see How to write earning criteria.

Some recommended information that is valuable to include is:

• A breakdown of their role responsibilities (you might find it helpful having their job description / role profile handy while writing this).
• A breakdown of tasks, procedures, and industry-specific knowledge that they have completed / demonstrated that will help them articulate the experience they’ve gained with you.
• Their use of any equipment, tools (physical or digital), platforms, and standards for which proficiency is essential to your industry / sector or career paths associated with this internship / placement.
• Reference to how they come to participate e.g. is it alongside their college / university studies or voluntary. This is a good opportunity to mention what this demonstrates about the earner e.g. self-motivation, ability to manage and prioritise workload, ability to balance the needs of the role with their studies etc.
• Any behaviours, attitudes and values that matter to your organisation and have been displayed by the earner.

This is the place to list each skill that your earners have developed / demonstrated while completing the internship / placement. This may well be a long list if the placement takes place over a long period of time or covers a wide range of content but don’t be intimidated – this is a valuable part of your badge and will support earners to clearly identify their transferable skills.

If you have been very detailed in your earning criteria, you might find the Navigatr Skills Scanner a useful tool for extracting a list of tags – for more information, please see Generating Skills Tags with the Skills Scanner.

Before moving on with writing your badge, be sure to review your list of tags and ensure that each skill is mentioned in the earning criteria section. For more information, please see Referencing skills tags in earning criteria.

Activity Type:
- Select “Internship / Placement”.

Who is this activity available to?
- If your earners must go through an application process to participate, select “Available by application only, please contact the provider for more information”.

- If your earners can only participate if they are existing students, members, or employees of your organisation, select “This badge is only available to Students, Members, or Employees”.

How long does the activity take to complete?

- Choose a timeframe from the drop-down menu. You might consider choosing the minimum, or average, timeframe that the placement takes to complete, from gaining their place to achieving all of the earning criteria.

Does the earner pay to access the activity?
- If the earners do not need to pay to participate, select “Free – Earners access this activity for free”.

- If earners must pay a fee to participate, select “Paid – Earners pay to access this activity”.

Activity Location:

- Select whether the internship / placement takes place “In-person” or “Online”. Choose whichever feels most appropriate for how your earners engage with their placement.

Your answer to this will dictate whether you are asked to provide a postal address or a URL as a location for the placement.

If earners work across multiple locations, or is a hybrid role, please select in-person and use your organisation’s main admin/office address.

Does your badge map to an additional standard?

 Standards, also known as Alignments, are a way to add further detail to a badge when earners must meet a formal standard while earning a badge. For example, if an earner has to have gained an official qualification to achieve the earning criteria, you might like to consider including this as an additional standard.

If your badge does not align with a formal standard:

- Select “No”.

If your badge aligns with a formal standard:
- Select “Yes”.

This will open three new fields in the form.

Standard Name:
- Enter the name of the apprenticeship qualification associated with this badge.

Standard Description:
- Enter a brief description (up to 350 characters including spaces) summarising this qualification. You will often find an appropriate short paragraph describing the qualification on the awarding body’s website.

Standard URL:
- Enter a URL to information about the qualification to the relevant awarding body’s website.