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General Discussion

Is it tacky to display Team Treehouse Badges or Points on your professional website?

Since Team Treehouse offers a JSON API for grabbing the statistics from your profile, it could be possible to display these statistics on your professional site. But would you want to?

What are the thoughts of the Team Treehouse community on this?

Pros: You can display a proven track record of professional development in your spare time. Perhaps there may even be skills that you haven't logged on your resume that someone might catch a glimpse of and contact you about. Displaying just the points in ascending order might show which skills you are most proficient in.

Cons: The Badges themselves are a bit amateur-looking and in fact the whole point system might seem like more of a game-ification of your skill set than an actual accomplishment. Displaying points of skills that you are less proficient in might turn some recruiters or potential employers off... for instance having only 14 points in Databases - when in reality, you might be fairly proficient in Database work but simply have not logged the time on Team Treehouse.

Thoughts?

2 Answers

Why would it be tacky?

I've actually been talking to a few companies that recommended me to put a link/display what I've done with treehouse. If anything it definitely shows that you have accessed some level of knowledge of a certain language.

It can never hurt :)