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Solutions for Trainers and Coaches
Meet Sonya
Sonya is a career coach that specializes in helping people from marginalized communities to pursue self-employment. In her role, she provides both structured training and one-on-one mentorship. She turned to Skill Squirrel to provide her clients with recognition of their skills and know-how, while also promoting her programs using verifiable digital credentials, which offer verifiable proof of their capabilities.
How to Give Verifiable Recognition
Verified Professional
Sonya became a Professional subscriber after completing Skill Squirrel’s 30-day free trial, which informed her how she could use the platform to grow her business. At the time, she had been consulting to non-profit career services organizations for 15+ years. Although she loved the work, she felt she needed to be in more control of her destiny by establishing direct connections with clients. The verification provided by Skill Squirrel through her Professional subscription gave her the trusted provider status she was seeking.
Use Lists
With support from her non-profit clients, Sonya created a group on Skill Squirrel and upgraded it to Unlimited for issuing Verifiable Credentials. She then uploaded lists of past students that had taken her small business training program. Lists on Skill Squirrel can be used for such things as marketing to promote posts. Now, each time Sonya has a new post with a credential earning opportunity, she promotes it to her lists and on her social networks. Anyone that joins her group allows her to add them as a contact for future communication.
Conduct Training
Sonya generally conducts her work online. Her training courses are usually held for four hours a day, every day of the work week, for several weeks. Whereas her business advisory work is more ad hoc in nature. She has developed badges with her logo, and in some instances the logo of a non-profit client, which she adds to the credential promotional content associated with her training posts. When people see the credentials they can earn from her training services, it entices them to sign up.
Issue Credentials
After each cohort finishes a training program, Sonya issues Verifiable Credentials to each of her program participants. This includes a printable certificate portion, blockchain code that is verifiable with a click of a button, and competency information such as a description of what was achieved to earn the credential and skills that were demonstrated during the course of the program.
Add to LinkedIn & Share
Participants that receive the Verifiable Credentials from Sonya can easily add them to their LinkedIn profiles and share them on social networks in celebration of their achievement. Ultimately, the credentials are property of the recipients, and they may use them in any way they wish. This includes storing them on Skill Squirrel via a free account or downloading the code to a digital wallet.
Solutions for Employment Services
Meet Wayne
This is Wayne. He is a busy employment counsellor at a non-profit organization. Wayne connects with many new faces daily and works to find his clients the most relevant employment experiences that will not only benefit them but also continue to build his reputation. He is connected with employers mostly from word of mouth. He’s come to Skill Squirrel to promote his programs and grow his employer network, which will offer his clients a greater range of work opportunities for their greater satisfaction and employment success.
Helping Wayne Grow His Network
Research Organizations
What interested Wayne most of all about Skill Squirrel is his ability to see what programs and services other employment service providers are offering. He, like his colleagues in the industry are focused on assisting their unemployed clients to secure work. In this way, he is not competing with other non-profits in his sector, but he does want to be mindful about scheduling and programming to ensure they are not duplicating efforts or competing for prospective clients by holding events on the same topic at the same time. There are plenty of people that need their support, so he works collaboratively as possible.
Make Posts
Once Wayne is has set a date, time, and location for his program, he makes a training post, which he can do with this Professional subscription. The post is associate with his verified name, to convey a trusted persona, even though the organization he works for has been supporting the local community for over 20 years. Newcomers and people recently retired and needing to work are less likely to have heard of his organization before, so verification is important when working to develop trusted relationships with new clients.
Conduct Assessments
All of Wayne’s new clients are taken through an assessment process. It always surprises him how people have achieved so much in their lives, but don’t see their accomplishments as skills. Once a career plan has been established, that information is applied towards his clients creation of Skill Squirrel profiles, which they can make with free accounts, while also joining Wayne’s private group of employers that offer unique work opportunities to his clients.
Issue Credentials
Once Wayne has verified the capabilities of a client, he may issue them a unique Verifiable Credential that summaries their suitability for a particular profession based on their work history, capabilities, personality, desired industry, and job title objectives.
