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Training vs. Certification
Training
- Hands-on learning & theoretical knowledge
- Prepares you for real-world UAS operations
- Focus on skill development & practical application
- Ideal for beginners and professionals seeking new skills
Certification
- Validates your skills and expertise
- Recognized proof of competency
- Requires passing a third-party validated exam
- Demonstrates professionalism and readiness for advanced career opportunities
The Value of Industry Certification
Industry certifications validate an individual's expertise and skills in a specific field, ensuring they meet recognized standards of competence. They enhance employability, demonstrate commitment to professional development, and can lead to career advancement opportunities. For employers, certifications provide assurance of an employee's qualifications and adherence to industry best practices.
Showcase Your Certifications with USI Digital Badges
Highlight your USI certification achievements with digital badges. Share your credentials online and connect with a global directory of certified drone professionals to enhance your professional visibility. Digital badges provide credibility with easy validation of your certifications.
Stand Out with USI Digital Credentials
USI and digital badge provider Accredible have partnered to provide our certification holders with a digital badge of their USI industry credential. Digital badges can be used in email signatures, personal web sites, social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter, on electronic copies of resumes, and can even be downloaded into printable certificates. Digital badges help USI certification holders convey to employers, potential employers and interested parties that you possess the skills, expertise, and dedication required to earn and maintain a professional USI certification.
What is a Digital Badge?
This is what a USI digital badge looks like when you add it to your social media or email signature. There is personalized metadata included with USI badge logos, which ties the badge to your personal certification achievement profile on Accredible.
One-Click Verification
Digital badges are online representations of your achievements. USI's digital badges provide our certification holders increased value by enabling interested parties to view and learn more about the credentials you hold with a single-click. The digital badge image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them. When someone like a manager or hiring agent clicks on your badge, they will be directed to an overview page providing them with information on your qualifications and specialized skills, as well as the process you completed to earn and maintain the credential. This additional layer of content helps you more fully explain your knowledge, capabilities, and high level achievements.
When someone clicks the link corresponding to your USI digital badge, an overview page is displayed on the Accredible website, and will look like this:
Why Should I Use This Digital Badge Program?
This digital badge program helps demonstrate and verify to HR and management professionals the specialized skills and abilities that you have acquired through USI coursework or field-based training. Your utilization of the USI digital badge program will help increase the awareness of your elite, industry recognized unmanned certifications, and more importantly how they differentiate you from thousands of other unmanned systems professionals. Including that you are USI CERTIFIED greatly enhances your value as a prospective employee.
- ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE
Never worry about losing your certifications - ever. Your credential will always be present at its web address. - EASY TO SHARE & SHOWCASE
You want to share your commitment to your career, your professional development, and highlight your achievements. Digital credentials enable you to share to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with one click. - CONTROL YOUR PRIVACY
Take advantage of searchability and have your achievement be discoverable on search engines or set it to private and share only with selected people. How and when you share your credentials is up to you. - PRINT ANY TIME
A high-quality PDF of your certificate and badge can easily be printed whenever you'd like. - VERIFIED LEARNING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Your USI certifications can be verified at any time. Your badge on LinkedIn can be linked over to your live credential so anyone, anywhere can see what you have achieved. - PORTABLE, EXPORTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
Embed your badge on your own website, in your email signature, or save a PDF of your credential.
How Do I Claim My Digital Badge(s)?
Certification exams are processing on Mondays, at which time your certification will be issued to the email associated with your USI account. You will receive an email that prompts you to create an account and accept your badge.
Once you earn your USI certification, you’ll get a notice on USI’s platform prompting you to request your digital certification. Fill out the request form, and you’ll receive an email to accept your badge. Please white-list Learn@FlyUSI.org for timely delivery.