I saw some people asking how the Adobe Captivate Specialist Certification is verified so I wrote up this blog post to answer their question.
When you shell out your hard earned dollars, or your company sends you to a Captivate Specialist Certification, you or your L&D Manager expect verifiable results. When you complete the certification, you will not only receive a framed certificate, which is nice but let’s face it, anyone with a color laser printer and a $20 frame from Walmart could replicate this. More importantly, you will get a managed credential through credly.com, a web service that specializes in managing credentials for organizations which offer training like Adobe. You can post your Credly credential to your Linkedin.com profile which will look like this:
When your L&D Manager or a potential hiring manager follow the link they will be taken to your credly certification which will look like this:
When they click on the Verify button the system will validate your credential and confirm the following: