Elite Credentialing Partners of 2024

    IBM

    The IBM credential program delivers industry-recognized digital credentials for learners to demonstrate their expertise and showcase their accomplishments. IBM carefully crafts each credential to reflect the learner's knowledge, skill, contribution, and competency achievements. 

    With each newly earned IBM credential, learners can build skills and confidence, differentiate themselves, demonstrate commitment and explore new career opportunities.

    At the same time, employers can use secure, verified digital credentials from IBM as one more way to validate individual skills and achievements. 

    The IBM credential program continuously invests in new areas to stay ahead of the rapidly changing technology landscape. Learners can prove their expertise and showcase their accomplishments in the latest products and technologies, including AI, data science, watsonx, cloud, and cybersecurity. 

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    Credentialing Program Overview

    Unlocking Skills and Achievements at Every Level with IBM's Digital Credentials

    IBM's digital credential framework represents foundational to thought-leadership skills, and also higher-level achievements through the IBM Professional Certification Program. These programs are designed to meet learners at any stage, whether it is a student participating in IBM SkillsBuild, an individual user learning on IBM Training or Coursera, or a professional validating their skills via the IBM Professional Certification Program. IBM's learning is designed for a variety of audiences, including academic students, adult learners, IBM Business Partners, IBM employees, and clients.

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    IBM Certified Associate Developer - Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X

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    Tools for Data Science V2

    Tools for Data Science V2

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    Generative AI in Action

    Generative AI in Action

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    Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

    Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

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    IBM watsonx.ai Technical Essentials

    IBM watsonx.ai Technical Essentials

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    Cloud Essentials

    Cloud Essentials

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    Credentialing Impact Overview

    The Reach of IBM Badges

    Explore the impact and global reach of badges from IBM, showcasing how they have grown over time.
    1,720,000 +

    Unique Badges Issued in 2024

    355,000 +

    Unique IBM Badge Earners

    79 %

    Badge Acceptance Rate (Credly Average is 67%)

    What IBM Loves About Credly

    Here’s what our top credentialing partner appreciates most about working with Credly.
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    Data Privacy & Security

    Credly's implementation of ISO27001 and ISO27701 ensures comprehensive security, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and privacy through independent audits.
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    Social Sharing Capabilities

    Digital credentials translate training into career success for earners, driving demand and revenue for your training and development programs.
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    Badge Wallet

    The badge wallet displays all earned badges from the earner's Credly profile, allowing access and management both online and offline, on the job site or while networking.
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    Insights & Best Practices

    Top Tips from IBM to Enhance Your Credentialing Programs

    •  Centralized Management: Have a dedicated centralized team to manage your credential program with a well-defined set of standards, rules and governance. This team should also include operational, strategic and leadership support.
    • Unified Badge Design: Design standardized emblems to span across an established credential framework which includes achievement levels and programs your badges will represent.
    • Engage with Learners: Educate your learners about digital credentials and the value they hold.
    • Leverage Data: Utilize available metrics to track and analyze your program, such as acceptance and share rates to ensure earners find value in the credentials they receive.

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