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The Benefits of Going Digital
These are some of the benefits that organisations experience when they move to digital credentials:
Save Money
Organisations save 80% on average when they switch from traditional paper credentials to digital.
Ambassadors
Digital credenitals are shared at a 10x rate compared to paper and PDF credentials. They are clickable and drive traffic to your site from a very relevant audience. Via Diplomasafe 22% on average share the good news on social media with 90% of those shared being shared on Linkedin.
Customer Experience
Whereas previously, a physical paper credential would need to be manually signed and issued by snail mail – which can lead to it getting lost – digital credentials can be issued almost instantly, no matter where in the world a customer is. They also have the ability to share their credential publicly with one or two clicks, allowing them to show off their new qualification – which also serves the dual purpose of additional exposure for your organisation!
Security & Compliance
With a true digital credential – not just a PDF – each diploma/credential will have its own unique digital signature and be impossible to forge. It also allows you to keep up to date with the latest EU legislation.
Open Up International Markets
By issuing credentials digitally, you can work with customers anywhere in the world who will have the same credential experience as your local customers.
Why Traditional Credentials Suck
- If you’re responsible for issuing credentials at your organisation and you are tired of the old-fashioned, manual, expensive processes, this is for you.
- Every time you need to issue credentials, you go through the same process and it takes hours and hours of manual work to organise and issue digital credentials to all of your customers.
- You might be in The Registrar’s Office, Student Services, IT Department or Administration and you’re finding the current challenges with the way you’re issuing credentials.
UPDATED 10 MARCH 2020
Cost
The typical cost per paper credentials can be as high as 75-100 EUR, this can stack up if you’re issuing thousands of credentials as an organisation!
Branding
PDF and paper credentials are hard to share with your network and on your LinkedIn profile as proof of your newly attained skills. They are not clickable and drive little to none traffic to your website!
Security & Compliance
Paper diplomas are easily forged. Even with a PDF solution – which is only halfway to a truly digital credential. Your paper version credentials do not support any of the digital credential standards for verification.
Manual, Lengthy Process
It involves manual processes and checks. It also means that the process takes much longer than is needed, which has an impact on the student experience. The creation, manual checks, printing, packing, posting, handling return to sender, and manually verifying requests from recruiters.
Skills-based Hiring
Your paper credentials are not supporting the shift in the job market which is shifting from degree based hiring to skills based hiring, leaving students with an asset that is difficult to assess.
Case Studies of organisations that have switched to digital credentials
Higher Education
Institution
Before
- Certificate-issuing process was very expensive and time-consuming and became increasingly difficult as the institution grew.
- International students had challenges proving their qualifications were genuine and needed a way to verify the authenticity of the certificates.
- Needed a secure, trackable, and simple digital solution.
After
- Secure and simple platform solution for issuing digital certificates.
- Students love their new digital certificates and many of them are shared on social media (23% so far), giving free exposure to the college.
- Significant time saving to the certificate issuing process, especially for International students and the reissuing of certificates was very easy.
Professional Membership Body, Training & Coaching
Before
- Membership was solely determined by letters after members’ names.
- This was challenging because it could not be validated or policed in any way.
- Members had no way to publicly showcase their credentials.
- ICA used hard copy or PDF certificates and the process for providing these was time-consuming and manual.
After
- ICA has issued more than 35k unique digital badges to its members.
- They have seen a large increase in social media presence due to students and members sharing their digital credentials. This raises its profile as a forward-thinking, modern governing body.
- They have seen a reduction in their teams’ workload and support enquiries due to credentials.
- Diplomasafe has directly contributed to a 99% retention rate at the top level of their membership.
Business Consulting
& Services
Before
- Very tedious credential issuing process.
- Each certificate was manually processed.
- 1-2 hours to issue credentials every time they ran a course. Calculated this was at least 200 hours per year of manual work!
- Credentials were issued in an old-fashioned design that felt a bit dated.
After
- Digital credential process through Diplomasafe takes minutes rather than hours!
- Certificates now look more professional and this process positions Crecea as a forward-thinking organisation that embraces new technologies.
- Dedicated support person at Diplomasafe on hand just in case Crecea has any queries about the credentials process.