Canadian Risk Management
Digital Badge
Promote your achievement with the CRM digital badge. RIMS has partnered with Credly, a Pearson company, to offer you a unique way to advertise your credential and ensure its authenticity. Your CRM digital badge has a unique URL that you can share or embed across social media, in your email signature, or on your website.
Digital badging protects the integrity of your credential. It provides a link to verified and secure data from RIMS that cannot be falsified. Credly badges also provide key analytics that show you the demand for your credential and its associated skills within the labor market. It includes real-time data pulled from live job requisitions across the several countries that show specific industries and employers demanding your credential and skills.
How to Obtain Your Digital Badge
- After your CRM designation is processed, you will receive an email about claiming your new digital badge from RIMS via Credly.
- Click the link in the email.
- Create an account on the Credly site and confirm your email.
- Claim your badge.
- Start sharing and exploring job opportunities.
What Is a Digital Badge?
A digital badge is an online visual indicator that represents your skills, interests, and achievements. Digital badging makes it easier to keep track of your professional development. Instead of gathering certificates and letters of accomplishments to show to interested parties, you can simply supply a link to your badges. It’s a shareable, public image that validates and verifies your achievement. Learn more about digital badges.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an open badge?
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
How is displaying my credential as a digital badge useful?
Displaying your certification as a digital badge gives the public and employers an easy way to verify your skills and expertise…something a paper certificate cannot do.
How does my certification get displayed as a badge?
We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge. The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards defined by Mozilla. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
What are the benefits of a badge?
Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the Credly platform.
How will I know if I’ve earned a CRM badge?
If you have completed all the requirements for earning the Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designation, you will receive an email notification from Credly with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
What if I don’t want my badge to be public?
You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Is there a fee to use Credly?
No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
What’s to keep someone else from copying my CRM badge and using it?
While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on the Credly platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
Where and how can I share my CRM badge through Credly?
You can share your badge directly from the Credly platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature. You can download your badge and link it anywhere online.
Can I export my CRM badge issued through Credly to other badge-storing platforms?
Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.
I have a question about the Credly platform. Where can I find support?
Click here to find answers to more frequently asked questions.
Unfortunately, we could not locate your email address in the directory. Please contact GRMI@RIMS.org to inquire about the status of your digital credential.
Questions?
Please send an email to CRM@rims.org