In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach and Talent Development Leader talks about Micro-credentialing which aligns well with the topic of up-skilling and re-scaling. She discusses what micro-credentials are, why they are so in demand in the marketplace these days and how it helps you to grow your career.
Episode Highlights:
- Employers are very quickly realizing that the old ways of doing things as before the pandemic, might just not be a fit anymore to help companies succeed.
- The pandemic has really necessitated a vast and immediate change in the employment landscape.
- Sheila talks about Digital Credentials and what they really are.
- Micro-credentials sometimes take less time to complete than a full academic certificate or degree program.
- Micro-credentials and Digital Badges really give you the edge to customize a set of skills that you align with your interests, and then strategically align with the business needs and positions that you would like to become a part of or grow into.
- Sheila discusses how to think about different types or content areas of micro-credentials.
- "They can be used for both academic & professional purposes, and give you that opportunity to really be able to pick skills that align with what you'd like to do next" says, Sheila.
- Micro-credentials are worth it, but it takes a little bit of research and opportunity to think about what skills would be most helpful.
- Check out Episode No. 32 to explore more about value of up-skilling and re-scaling.
3 Key Points:
- Forward-thinking organizations are doing better than they were before the pandemic and due to the rapid evolution of digital technology, they are thinking about how they can shift what they were doing to meet the future demand of business.
- Digital Credentials are a different way for us to look at representing a specific competency or a specific skill. Meanwhile, Micro-credential is a compact digital credential that verifies some type of achievement in, in demand skills and competencies.
- Micro-credentials are specifically designed for professionals who want to advance their knowledge and fill in the gaps, either with specific skills, or on their resume, and one of the biggest benefits is that you don't have to go and take two years off to get an MBA.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "Last year, when the global pandemic hit, it seemingly up-ended the American workplace almost overnight."- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "Micro-credentials allow us to represent a specific competency or a specific skill." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "Micro-credentials give you the opportunity to really choose what you learn." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "While still working and not putting your career on hold, you can go study a specific area of skill and achieve a micro-credential." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "We're seeing a tonne of Micro-credentials in Business, Project Management, Digital Marketing, and Computer and Data Sciences; Micro-credentials are becoming huge in the education space." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
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