Enhancing Students’ Job Seeking Process Through A Digital Badging System

Abstract

Digital badges are an effective avenue for students to obtain recognition for their achievements. Current digital badging platforms are mainly developed to assist earners in sharing their achievements on social media platforms. These systems focus less on in-demand skills required by the labor market. However, our proposed system introduces a criteria-based badging system, requiring layers of evaluations and verifications to assure originality and quality in the process of earning a single badge. As a result, students can engage further in courses that will benefit them in terms of job readiness and preparedness. This leads students to earn badges associated with top in-demand skills required by the labor market. In turn, this can increase students’ opportunities to obtain jobs related to their skills. These badges can influence recruiting decisions because employers may find and display their required candidate qualifications and skills via recruiting channels.