What is Badging?
Badging 101
The Career Design Lab is launching a digital badging system based on NACE’s Career-Readiness Competencies to help you track and showcase essential workplace skills like communication, leadership, and critical thinking. These badges will highlight your progress in developing the key competencies that employers value, offering a clear way to demonstrate your readiness for career success.
How can badging help with my job/internship search? Microcredentials demonstrate your mastery of specialized skills that otherwise may not be visible on your resume or LinkedIn. In particular, NACE’s Career-Readiness Competencies reflect key skills and frameworks that recruiters use for hiring. By displaying these competencies through badges, you can gain a competitive edge over other applicants.
How can I earn badges? Each badge has several prerequisites, including specific event attendance and professional accomplishments. Please see below for how to earn your badges.
What badge is available for Spring 2025? We are piloting the Critical Thinking badge this spring!
How can I earn the Critical Thinking Badge?
How do I get my badge? Badgr will send you an email when you have been awarded a badge. To claim your badge, you will need to create a Badgr account where your badges will be stored. Please use your Columbia email address when creating your account.
How can I share my badge on LinkedIn? Each badge has a unique URL and HTML code that you can use to embed
Teamwork: Create and maintain collaborative relationships to work toward shared goals while appreciating different perspectives and shared responsibilities.
Career + Self: Take charge of your own professional growth through lifelong learning, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, exploring job opportunities, and building connections.
Technology: Use technology responsibly to improve efficiency, complete tasks, and achieve goals.
Communication: Share information, ideas, facts, and views clearly and effectively with others within different contexts.
Equity + Inclusion: Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills necessary to equitably include and work with people across different cultural backgrounds while challenging racism and inequitable systems, structures, and policies.
Leadership: Identify and use both individual and team strengths to reach an organization’s goals.
Professionalism: Recognize how work environments vary, demonstrate a strong work ethic, and act in the best interest of your workplace and larger community.
Critical Thinking: Recognize and address different needs by understanding context and analyzing important information.
