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Daniel Bjørkholm
9,593 PointsHow can I use my TeamTreeHouse achievements in the real world?
Hey Team Treehouse
This is a suggestion on how you can develop your site and also maybe an opening for a discussion.
Because I believe I spend quite a lot of time in here and I learn a lot. This is my go-to place for technical knowledge in my daily work life. Working as a consultant in IBM, It's important that I can effectively prove, that I know something, and I often do that by sharing my acclaim badges -> https://www.youracclaim.com/ - You guys run almost the same concept, although your badges represent a very small portion of knowledge, since there is one for every little bit of a course.
My suggestion: would be to make some larger badges for whole courses or even tracks and make them easy to share. Maybe on acclaim?
That could mean, that I could show my clients a badge that says that Team Treehouse approves, that I know how to do Spring APIs or even Full-Stack JavaScript? Or other students searching for a job could comprehensively include them in their CVs.
Could this be an idea? - It would improve the value of the learning from team treehouse greatly, I believe.
What do you say?
3 Answers
Max Senden
23,177 PointsHi Daniel,
Perhaps the Team Treehouse's Techdegree is what you're looking for? Once completed they provide you with a certificate.
Cheers, Max
stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 PointsHi Daniel,
The way I personally see it, the best way to prove that you know something is to use that skill. It could be a mini-project just to show that you actually know how to use that skill.
I think companies prefer to see your skill used or examples of it more than a paper saying that "This person finished a course, and here's a badge showing it.". So my recommendation is:
After finishing a course, use that skill, it doesn't have to be a huge project. It doesn't even have to be a useful program, just something that helps you practice and then later be able to show that skill off.
Jonas
Daniel Bjørkholm
9,593 PointsHey - Thanks joining in :)
As I understand it, the techdegree's are actual educations. I would get fired if I began a min. 3 months course. Instead, It's quite normal to have 2-4 days courses, and then get some kind of certificates to show to clients. Many of the large IT companies use these badges to prove a certain amount of skills or competencies within an area; ex. Oracle, vmware, IBM and Microsoft. The certificate proves that you are allowed to claim, that you are the holder of a particular badge.
The reason for the badge is that I find, that most clients don't have the time to see or evaluate a project, they want a visual mark that proves that you can solve the challenge, and preferably a badge from a trustworthy site. (Which I believe Team Treehouse is, of course).
I'm not saying that techdegree's are not good, they are just for a different (and important) use case. So I'm just suggesting an expansion of the use of badges, because I've experienced that this format can have a huge value in "the real world", especially in consultancy.
Daniel
stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 PointsI definitely get your point, and I do actually think it could be done.