Help your clients achieve career success faster and more consistently by giving them easier access to the right supports and income earning opportunities all in one place.
Provide Targeted Training
Sonya
Sonya is an independent career coach that specializes in helping people from marginalized communities. In her role, she provides structured training on behalf of non-profit organizations, as well as one-on-one advisory services. With Skill Squirrel she is able to not only affordably and effectively promote her programs and services to connect with prospective advisory clients, but also provide all her clients with verifiable credentials in recognition of their capabilities and achievements.
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Verified Professional
Sonya became a Professional subscriber after completing Skill Squirrel’s 30-day free trial, which informed her thinking on how she could grow her business faster. At the time, she had been consulting to non-profit career services organizations for over 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 to attract new clients.
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 at a time. When she is not training, she makes herself available for one-on-one advisory sessions, which are more ad hoc in nature. By the time a program ends, even thought she hasn't met the participants in person, she has developed a rapport with them. By providing them with program branded badges on digital credentials, it is her way of helping to set them up for future success.
Issue Credentials
After each cohort finishes her program, Sonya issues Verifiable Credentials to the participants. This includes a printable certificate, a description of what was achieved to earn the credential, a list of skills that were demonstrated during the course of the program, and embedded within the digital credential is blockchain code that allows the credential to be verifiable with a click of a button.
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. 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 and adding the link to their resumes. To attract more clients to her program, she promotes credential earning opportunities on her training and advisory posts, which she promotes both on and off Skill Squirrel.
Offer Career Clarity
Wayne
This is Wayne. He works as an employment counsellor at a non-profit organization. Wayne regularly connects with new clients seeking help with their employment challenges, and he works diligently to find his clients suitable work within his employer network. Skill Squirrel lightens the demand for his time by allowing his clients and members of his employer network to connect directly. The increase in satisfaction from employers has grown his network to attract more clients and resulted in more work placements.
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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. His industry is focused on assisting opportunity seekers to secure work, and he tries to be mindful about scheduling and programming to avoid the duplication of efforts by holding events on similar topics and/or on the same day as other service providers. There are plenty of people that need support, so he works collaboratively as possible.
Make Posts
Once Wayne 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 associated with his verified name, to convey a trusted persona, even though the organization he works for has been supporting the local community for over 16 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 with a client, they apply that vision to create a Skill Squirrel profile for free as a member of Wayne's private group of employers, which offer his clients unique work opportunities.
Issue Credentials
Once Wayne has verified the capabilities of a client, using his Combo group plan, he may issue them a unique Verifiable Credential that may contain relevant data for a particular profession, which is based factors such as their work history, capabilities, personality, desired industry, and job title objectives. This professional assessment allows employers to easily identify opportunity seekers best suited to working at their organization.
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