Posted on by Rafael Scapin

Can Digital ‘Badges’ and ‘Nanodegrees’ Protect Job Seekers From a First-Round Knockout?

Alternative credentials can be valuable to a hiring manager who is looking closely at a small pool of candidates. Anybody can write on a résumé that he or she knows the programming language HTML5.  Faking an HTML5 badge from the Mozilla Foundation is harder.

http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Digital-Badges-and/150257/

 

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