Vocations · Job Skills

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Years of running a shift, serving in the military or earning a certification can count toward a degree, but only with evidence and a matching course. List each experience, what you learned to do and what proves it, and see which credit routes to try.

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Your experiences

The worked example is made up: three years as a coffee shop shift lead, and four years as an Army motor transport operator still waiting on a Joint Services Transcript. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Vocations · Job Skills$5

What you finish with
A record per experience: what it was, its kind, dates, hours, what you learned to do, evidence with whether it is in hand, the course it might match, the credit routes to try and whether you have read the college’s policy. Works out months and hours and counts evidence in hand; flags the Joint Services Transcript, evidence still to get, exam acceptance, what a portfolio takes and the college’s policy.
Who it is for
Adult learners going back to school, veterans and service members, career changers and workers in apprenticeship or credential programs.
Format
Browser inventory with a saved record per experience. Prints the inventory to bring to an advisor at the college, every experience in a table or a blank sheet; 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. List each job, service, volunteer role or training.
  2. Write what you learned to do, with verbs.
  3. Collect the evidence for each.
  4. Find the course whose outcomes match.
  5. Ask the college which route it accepts.

List an experience

Routes to credit

Ways prior learning becomes creditRouteGood forYou needCLEP or DSST examgeneral education subjectsto pass a timed testPortfolio assessmentwork and volunteer skillsevidence for each outcomeACE recommendationmilitary and workplace traininga transcript of coursesChallenge examone course at one collegethe department’s testCredential crosswalklicenses and certificationsthe credential itselfWays prior learning becomes creditCLEP or DSST examGood for: general education subjectsYou need: to pass a timed testPortfolio assessmentGood for: work and volunteer skillsYou need: evidence for each outcomeACE recommendationGood for: military and workplace trainingYou need: a transcript of coursesChallenge examGood for: one course at one collegeYou need: the department’s testCredential crosswalkGood for: licenses and certificationsYou need: the credential itself
Each college decides which routes it offers, how many credits it will accept and whether they transfer. Adults who earn credit for prior learning are more likely to finish a degree.

Writing outcomes

Colleges grant credit for learning, not for time served. “Worked at a coffee shop for three years” earns nothing; “scheduled a crew of nine, trained new hires and reconciled cash and inventory” can be matched to the outcomes of a management course.

For veterans

The Joint Services Transcript lists military training and occupations with American Council on Education credit recommendations. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard members request it online; Air and Space Force members use the Community College of the Air Force transcript.

Sources

  1. Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. The PLA Boost (2020) and Ten Standards for Assessing Learning (cael.org).
  2. American Council on Education. Military Guide and National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training (acenet.edu).
  3. Joint Services Transcript (jst.doded.mil) and Community College of the Air Force transcripts (airuniversity.af.edu/CCAF).
  4. College Board. CLEP exam and credit policy search (clep.collegeboard.org); Prometric. DSST (getcollegecredit.com).

The worked examples are made up. Colleges set their own credit for prior learning policies; this page organizes your case and cannot promise credit. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.