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Digital Badge FAQ
APA's Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) and Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) digital badges are proof of certification. FPC and CPP digital badges enable you to showcase your professional achievement. With digital badges, you can easily demonstrate your understanding of complex payroll concepts on social media, emails, personal websites and resumes.
APA's digital badges allow you to provide employers with easy, valid verification of your credentials, while make it simple and easy to communicate your professional knowledge, skills, and abilities. Digital badges are protected with a verifiable link that cannot be tampered with.
We have translated the learning and testing outcomes you have demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the Acclaim Platform. The technology Credly uses on its Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
Once you have passed the FPC or CPP examination, you will receive an email notification from the Acclaim Platform ([email protected]) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
You can find answers to frequently asked questions here: support.youracclaim.com
Representing your FPC or CPP credential as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you're now capable of. The digital badge platform also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the platform.
You can share your badge directly from the Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You're in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
No. Digital badges for certificants who hold an active FPC or CPP designation is complimentary. If you would like a paper certificate, you may print the certificate from the PDF version, available at no cost, through the Acclaim Platform or you may order a certificate through our vendor, Scribes Inc.
If your FPC or CPP certification expiration date has recently passed, your digital badge will change to an "expired" status until you complete the appropriate recertification or reinstatement process. Once the reinstatement period has passed, you will not be able to display a digital badge. Review the Recertification Guidelines.
While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly's Acclaim Platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through the Acclaim Platform. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.
Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.