Digital Badges
RIMS-CRMP certification has partnered with Credly, a digital badging platform backed by our testing provider Pearson VUE, to offer you a unique way to advertise your credential and ensure its authenticity.
Digital badging protects the integrity of your credential. It provides a link to verified and secure data from RIMS that cannot be falsified. Credly badges also provide key analytics that show you the demand for your credential and its associated skills within the labor market. It includes real-time data pulled from live job requisitions across the several countries that show specific industries and employers demanding your credential and skills.
How It Works
- You will receive an email notifying you to claim your badge via Credly.
- Click the link in that email.
- Create an account on the Credly site and confirm your email.
- Claim your badge.
- Start sharing and exploring job opportunities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is an open badge?
A: Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
Q: How is displaying my credential as a digital badge useful?
A: Displaying your certification as a digital badge gives the public and employers an easy way to verify your skills and expertise…something a paper certificate cannot do.
Q: Who is using Credly digital badges?
A: Credly provides digital badging credentials for many companies including ISACA, Adobe, IBM and Microsoft.
Q: How does my certification get displayed as a badge?
A: The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards defined by Mozilla. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
Q: What are the benefits of a badge?
A: Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the Credly platform.
Q: Who is Credly?
A: Credly is a product of Pearson, the world’s learning company. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
Q: How will I know if I’ve earned a RIMS-CRMP badge?
A: If you have passed the RIMS-Certified Risk Management Professional exam, you will receive an email notification from Credly with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
Q: What if I don’t want my badge to be public?
A: You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Q: Is there a fee to use Credly?
A: No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
Q: What’s to keep someone else from copying my RIMS-CRMP badge and using it?
A: While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on the Credly platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
Q: Where and how can I share my RIMS-CRMP badge through Credly?
A: You can share your badge directly from the Credly platform to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature. You can download your badge and link it anywhere online.
Q: What are labor market insights and how can I access them through Credly?
A: Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges, and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through Credly. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
Q: Can I export my RIMS-CRMP badge issued through Credly to other badge-storing platforms?
A: Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.
Q: Can I import badges issued from other platforms into Credly?
A: Not at this time.
Q: I have a question about the Credly platform. Where can I find support?
A: Click here to find answers to more frequently asked questions.
Questions?
Contact RIMS-CRMP@RIMS.org.