Saint Mary’s is committed to your success by providing you with the tools necessary to not only achieve your professional goals, but to share them with the world — especially the digital world.
In 2021, Saint Mary’s launched 87 digital badges through a partnership agreement with Credly, and although we’re just getting started, we’re already seeing the benefits of these visual credentials.
The best outcome is that our alumni are landing jobs because their badges are getting noticed on platforms like LinkedIn.
Jonathan Bruesch, a recent M.S. in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics graduate, was transitioning into business analytics from another field, and his digital badge helped him get noticed by the right employers.
“Once the badges came out, I shared them all on LinkedIn and developed my LinkedIn content to showcase them,” he said. “The badges clearly showed prospective employers how job-ready I was and I landed a job at Vanco because of them.”
How it works:
- Saint Mary’s teaches students the knowledge, skills, and values they need and provides them with experiences to excel.
- Students then use the badges to showcase the skills desired most by employers, acknowledge their achievements, and improve their marketability.
- Employers looking for trusted sources of talent are coming to know that Saint Mary’s badges showcase potential employees with verified skills that match their job requirements.
Additional benefits of badging to Saint Mary’s include brand awareness (with free social media impressions), increased retention, widespread recognition for course and degree accomplishments, and increased demand for programs that teach the skills students desire.
We can also signal to employers that our programs align with in-demand skills in the marketplace. Should they be searching for continuing education for their own employees, they can turn to us. And we can connect graduates to opportunities for continuing education at Saint Mary’s.
We’ve issued 3,616 credentials to date with a 54 percent share rate, resulting in 3,007 page views.
Expansion plans include expanding to all graduate programs and potentially also to undergraduate programs.