Vocations · Job Skills

A badge is a claim.
Keep the proof.

Digital badges pile up in different platforms and inboxes, and a badge alone rarely convinces a hiring manager. For each one, keep the verification link, the skills it stands for and a piece of your own work for every skill. The organizer shows which skills still lack proof and which badges are about to expire.

Add a badgeWhat you get
$5one-time · every device you sign in on
Buy · $5

Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Job search kit, $29 for 34 items.

Your badges

The worked example is made up: a spreadsheet skills badge with projects for three of its four skills, and a forklift safety badge that expires in 21 days. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Vocations · Job Skills$5

What you finish with
A record per badge with its name, issuer, dates, verification link and format; the skills it stands for and what it took to earn it; evidence per skill with kind and location; where it is shown and a one-line résumé entry. Flags badges expiring within 60 days, skills without evidence, a missing verification link and badges shown nowhere; counts badges and skills.
Who it is for
Students and adults earning badges and micro-credentials from schools, workforce programs, employers and online courses, and the career counselors who help them present them.
Format
Browser organizer with a saved record per badge. Prints a badge record, a list of every badge or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with the Caveat Academy pass and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Job search kit ($29) and the Vocations Suite pass ($99), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Job Skills space in Caveat Vocations.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Add each badge with its verification link.
  2. List the skills it stands for, as the issuer words them.
  3. Attach a piece of your own work to each skill.
  4. Choose where to show it and write the résumé line.
  5. Check the flags before each application.

Add a badge

Badge, criteria, evidence

What sits behind a badgeThe badgeSays you met a standard, with a linkanyone can check.The criteriaWhat you had to do: a test, tasks, asupervised check.The evidenceYour own work that shows the skill at alevel an employer can judge.In an interview, the badge gets you thequestion; the evidence is the answer.
Open Badges carry their issuer, criteria and evidence inside the badge, so they move between platforms.

Portable badges

Badges built on the Open Badges standard, maintained by 1EdTech, carry the issuer, the criteria and often evidence inside the badge itself, so they can be verified and moved between platforms. A badge locked to one platform is still useful; keep its verification page link.

Talking about it

Use the evidence in interviews: name the badge, then describe the piece of work, what you did and the result. That turns a line on a résumé into an example of the skill.

Sources

  1. 1EdTech. Open Badges specification (1edtech.org).
  2. U.S. Department of Labor, CareerOneStop. Certifications and credentials (careeronestop.org).
  3. U.S. Department of Education. Digital credentials and learning and employment records (ed.gov).
  4. National Association of Colleges and Employers. Career readiness competencies (naceweb.org).

The worked example is made up, including the issuers and the verification link. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.