Learners earn credentials from a wide range of programs, training providers, and institutions. Yet when they apply for new roles or opportunities, they often struggle to present their accomplishments in a clear, trustworthy format. Employers want a simple way to understand what a candidate has earned and to confirm that those achievements are legitimate.
When those achievements don’t clearly show up in hiring moments, issuer programs lose visibility and influence, even when the learning itself was rigorous and high-quality.
Today, we’re introducing the first version of the Verified Career Record (VCR): a single, portable PDF — generated and delivered by Accredible — that brings together the verifiable credentials a learner selects along with any additional career information they choose to include. It’s designed to meet learners and employers where they are today: a familiar document format that is easy to read, easy to share, and easy to verify.
This is the beginning of a broader vision for how learners present their achievements professionally. VCR v1 establishes the foundation.
Why We Built It
Learners increasingly expect to show a complete picture of their skills and experience. Issuers want their programs to be clearly represented. Employers want clarity and verification without additional back-and-forth.
As hiring teams become more skeptical of self-reported resumes and AI-generated summaries, verifiable credentials are increasingly expected, but only when they’re easy to review and confirm.
The VCR supports all three needs by solving the immediate, practical problem: “Make it easy to share verified achievements in a format everyone already understands.”
As the ecosystem evolves, future versions will expand on this foundation with richer formats and deeper integrations. But the first step is meeting current expectations with a simple, trusted, universally accepted format.
How the Verified Career Record Works
The VCR makes it easy for learners to present their verified achievements without needing to compile multiple documents or screenshots.
- Learners select which verifiable credentials to include across all issuers they’ve earned from.
- They add any additional career or professional information they want to share.
- Accredible generates and delivers the PDF directly to the employers they specify.
- Employers can instantly verify the embedded credentials anywhere the PDF is shared.
The learner curates the content. Accredible produces a secure and verifiable document.
This first version is intentionally simple because employers still overwhelmingly prefer documents during screening. It provides a trusted, verifiable record in a portable format that fits directly into existing hiring workflows.
This format becomes the starting point for more advanced versions in the future.
Immediate Value for Learners, Issuers, and Employers
The Verified Career Record creates immediate value:
- For Learners: A single, professional document that brings together all their achievements and keeps their digital credentials verifiable wherever they share them.
- For Issuers: A clean, consistent way for the credentials they issue to remain identifiable and trusted when shared with employers.
- For Employers: A fast, reliable way to review and verify a candidate’s accredited achievements without extra steps or manual confirmation.
A straightforward PDF may not sound radical, but in today’s employment ecosystem, clarity, familiarity, and trust matter more than anything else. The Verified Career Record offers learners a clear way to present what they’ve earned and gives employers a trusted, verifiable view of their achievements. It brings simplicity to a process that is often fragmented, helping credentials stay recognizable and credible wherever they are shared.
