Business and employer pledge
Pledge to improve young people’s employability and access to career opportunities by recognising digital badges
Digital badging is a proven way of enabling young people to showcase and articulate more than their qualifications and provides a way for them to demonstrate to employers their skills, competencies, interests, experience, and talents that formal education doesn’t recognise.
A digital badge bridges the gap between how employers define skills and how young people understand and evidence them.
For employers, recognising digital badges is a smart approach to supporting local talent pipelines, to think innovatively about recruitment, progression, and workforce development.
Employers can also use digital badges to define the skills and attributes that they need from candidates.
It is also a fantastic way for your business or company to demonstrate how it is positively contributing to its social and corporate governance (ESG) goals.
Every digital badge is validated by City & Guilds, designed by the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacturers (RSA), quality assured by Badge Nation, and shows where and how the earner achieved their badge, and who issued it.
As an employer, there are three ways you can pledge to support young people through digital badging
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Digital Badge Supporter
Simply pledge to recognise digital badges as a valid way for young people to show more than their qualifications during your recruitment process. Help us to demonstrate the credibility of digital badges and transferable skills. There is no administration or time commitment required.
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Digital Badge Champion
Support young people to identify the skills they have and opportunities to build new ones by creating your own digital badges, that young people could earn for example while doing work experience with you. Full support is offered to help you design and write your badges, or you can access a range of badges already developed.
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Digital Badge Trailblazer
Work with the Region of Learning to develop digital pathways into your business, industry or sector and help us to understand the skills or experience you feel young people need to demonstrate. Full support is offered to help match the skills and experience to local learning opportunities and to build ‘A to B’ pathways with digital badges.
