Discover Credentials. Explore Opportunities
Discover and compare credential opportunities, build widgets, and access our linked open data network for timely and trusted information about credentials including competencies and education and career pathways. Here you can explore the Credential Registry to understand how data that you and others contribute can be used to fuel the creation of services and tools that allow students, employers, and workers to compare credentials and choose the best option.
What's in the Registry?
Overview and Navigation Tips
If you are new to the Credential Finder or want to get more familiar with the updated interface, we recommend exploring our overview page to learn how tools like the finder help make credential data more accessible and actionable. It includes helpful navigation tips, videos on changes we have implemented, and an invitation to share your feedback so we may improve tools like the Credential Finder or collaborate to develop custom tools that meet the needs of your stakeholders. You can also learn more about Credential Engine and how tools like the Finder help illuminate paths to a better future.
Who is Credential Finder for?
Job Seekers / Individuals
Whether you’re just starting out, advancing your career, or just looking for new skills, Credential Finder helps you find the path. We know it can be confusing to navigate through thousands of degrees, certificates, and other credential options. Having the right information is key.
Use our reliable and up-to-date credential information to confidently map your own path forward.
Credential Providers / Issuers
Our information can help you build better connections for the credentials you provide. We encourage you to explore how comparable credentials from other providers lead to different career opportunities, what competencies and skills are built into different credentials, and which are in demand.
Use our data to help inform the credential opportunities you offer, and understand how your credentials compare locally and nationally.
Local, State, and Federal Government Agencies
Our credential information can help you understand the opportunities available for your constituents so that you may make better decisions about supports, resources, and services to meet your needs and keep up with a rapidly changing economy.
Use our data in ways that are specific to your context to help with strategic planning and meet your goals.
Application Designers and Developers
Credential Finder is just a demonstration of what you can do with transparent credential information. Take advantage of a complete suite of APIs and methods to build your own applications based on data in the Credential Registry.
Use our trusted and relevant data to build your own custom solutions that help meet your specific needs.
Skill and Competency Creators
You want to create opportunities for people to acquire in-demand skills when they need them. Learn what skills and competencies are available, what they mean, and what may be missing across local and state regions.
Our data facilitates understanding of how others are describing different competencies and skills so that you can use that information to create new opportunities or refine existing skills and credentials.
Reveal Reliable Information
The Registry contains trusted and reliable information that helps learners and those seeking opportunities to explore available pathways. This information fuels the creation of services and tools that allow students, employers, and workers to compare credentials and see the full range of opportunities available for learning, advancement, and meaningful careers.
Credential
Degrees, certificates, badges, and more that show what an individual knows and can do.
Learning Opportunities
Formal opportunities that allow individuals to earn credentials or specific competencies and skills to advance their knowledge and job prospects.
Assessments
Activities that evaluate what an individual knows and can do as a result of a specific learning opportunity or a collection of them en route to earning a credential.
Quality Assurance
Processes that help ensure credentials, learning opportunities, and individual skills and competencies are trusted, valuable, reliable.
Skills and Competencies
Abilities that individuals can acquire and have the capacity to apply in the workplace and real-world situations.
Pathways
Direct connections between education opportunities, skills/competencies, and the workforce that help people find clear avenues to meet their needs.
Transfer Value
How well an individual credential, learning opportunity, or competency will relate to and apply in other skill development and/or career advancement opportunities.