As a means to meet specific, targeted workforce development needs, assessment-based certificate programs serve many potential functions for certification organizations, licensure boards, and associations. For example, they offer another way for many professions to...
Let’s face it: Even in our ever-more-paperless world, sometimes you just need cold hard proof of professional certification and licensure. Whether mounted on the wall or tucked in a wallet, printed credentials are nowhere near a thing of the past. They both offer a...
Congratulations! You’ve successfully launched your longitudinal assessment as an alternative to a high-stakes exam. As your longitudinal assessment progresses, and gaps in practitioner expertise emerge, how do you make those results actionable? To put it a slightly...
Has your membership organization considered a third-party CE approval program? More than just another revenue stream, education management expands your community’s professional development options and your organization’s stature within your industry. When done right,...
What’s in a member profile? Or, what should be in a member profile? The answer just might save you (and your constituents) a lot of time. A comprehensive and accessible member record streamlines your certification management process, enables robust reporting, and...
Does your recertification or renewal program accept CE? If so, why not upstream your process and formalize a CE approval program? A CE approval program connects your community to relevant educational resources and creates the framework for your educational market's...
Communicating candidate progress hasn’t always been an expectation of certification programs. It hasn’t even always been possible. This was especially true in the age of PDF applications and paper forms. Of course, these were also the days of shoebox receipts for CE...
In the search for the right candidate management system or certification management software, organizations rightfully tend to focus on how a solution works. But…what about how it looks? Brand consistency across platforms is a way to create a top-notch end-user...
If you’ve automated communications for credential management in the past, you know they can be a great way to build candidate notifications and reminders into the certification process. That is, as long as they work. But what if they aren’t working in the way you had...
Everyone loves a deadline, right? Certification cycles comprise the time-based, date-based, and deadline-based dimensions of your program rules. Think of it as “what needs to be done by when.” Dates, cycles, and deadlines are some of certification management's...