Recognize and Share Your Skills
Digital badges provide a way to recognize skills, achievements, and professional development accomplishments. Badges can be shared online and serve as a verified record of learning and achievement.
What are Digital Badges?
A digital badge is a unique and portable representation of a successfully completed competency-based skill. Skills eligible for digital badges may be technical and industry-specific or focus on professional competencies such as communication, research, customer service, and workplace behaviors.
Digital badges provide a visual way to showcase achievements and demonstrate verified skills to employers. Students can build an online portfolio of earned badges and share them through professional platforms, helping supplement a resume with evidence of mastered competencies.
How does this Benefit Learners & Employers?
Benefits for Leaners
Learners benefit by earning important credentials quicker than traditional professional development or academic programs. The badges provide foundational skills essential to gaining employment opportunities. Digital Badges contain information linked to the individuals skills. For example, a badge might include samples of the individual’s work, serving as a digital portfolio.
Benefits for Industry Partners
Industry Partners benefit by being actively engaged in program creation. Candidates for positions in their organization will have validated competencies rather than relying on a resume and employment application for proof. The just-in-time nature of training programs also means employees earn credentials quicker, and with fewer time constraints typical of traditional academic programs.
Contact Workforce Development
We’re here to help! Visit the Office of Workforce and Professional Development, located in the Lapoint Center, call (207) 755-5280, or email cmccworkforcedevelopment@mainecc.edu.
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