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Free online skills assessments that turn what you can do into verifiable badges employers can check, issued to your LER.me® wallet.
Seven core skills. Plus the ones your next step needs.
Every track starts with the same seven core soft skills, practiced in real situations: group chats, choose-your-path stories, shifts, interviews and workplace scenarios. Earn a badge for each one.
💬 Communication
Listening well, speaking and writing clearly, reading body language, and sharing ideas respectfully.
🤝 Teamwork & Collaboration
Sharing goals, dividing work fairly, and working well with people who are different from you.
🔄 Adaptability & Flexibility
Adjusting to changed plans, new people, and new tools without losing focus.
🧩 Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
Analyzing situations, breaking down challenges, and finding creative solutions when things go wrong.
💙 Emotional Intelligence & Empathy
Recognizing your own stress, managing reactions, and understanding how others feel.
📅 Time Management & Organization
Balancing work, commitments and deadlines independently.
🕊️ Conflict Resolution
Mediating disagreements, negotiating compromises, and finding common ground.
Show you can use AI responsibly.
Four AI-at-work skills, badged the same way: how you task a tool, check what it produces, protect data, and disclose its use.
Prompting & Tasking
Turning a real work request into instructions a tool can act on, with the context and constraints the job requires.
AI Output Verification
Checking output against the source, the standard, or the physical work before anyone relies on it.
Data & Privacy Judgment
Knowing what may be entered into a tool, what may not, and which rules govern the record.
AI Disclosure & Fair Use
Telling people when AI was involved, crediting sources, and noticing unequal treatment.
Built for where you are now.
Pick the track that fits you. Each adds two or three extra skills for that stage, and every result maps to one shared Skill Scale.
Middle School
I'm in middle school and exploring what jobs are like.
Illustrated scenes and interactive formats: group chats, choose-your-path stories, drag-to-sort and a week planner. Every question can be read aloud.
Extra skills: Asking for Help, Digital Citizenship, Goal Setting
Skill Scale bands 1–4 · questions from O*NET Job Zone 1–2
High School
I'm in high school, and maybe working part-time or in an internship.
Real situations: group projects, shifts, tryouts and interviews.
Extra skills: Self-Advocacy, Interview Skills, Digital Reputation
Skill Scale bands 2–5 · questions from O*NET Job Zone 3
Career Starter
I'm starting my career: a recent graduate, first job, or coming back after a break.
Real work situations from your first months on the job, about 10 minutes each.
Extra skills: Using Feedback, Workplace Norms, Networking
Skill Scale bands 3–6 · questions from O*NET Job Zone 4
Transitioning Military
I'm moving from military service into a civilian career.
Show what you've led, trained and delivered in words civilian employers know.
Extra skills: Translating Your Experience, Civilian Workplace Culture, Leading Without Rank
Skill Scale bands 4–7 · questions from O*NET Job Zone 5
Career Changer
I built a career in one field and I'm moving into another.
You already have skills. Prove them in your new field.
Extra skills: Your Career Story, Learning Fast, Building a New Network
Skill Scale bands 4–7 · questions from O*NET Job Zone 5
Take an assessment. Get placed. Earn the badge.
- Sign in with LER.me® and choose your track.
- Take a scenario-based assessment. Most take about 10 minutes, some around half an hour. Answers save as you go, and you can set the scenarios in your career field.
- Get placed on four levels, set for your track.
- Earn a verifiable badge, issued by LER.me® as an Open Badges 3.0 credential to your wallet. Once you've earned it, there's no need to take it again.
The four levels
Emerging
Just beginning to learn or acquire the skill.
Developing
Moving in a positive direction. Still learning, with room to grow around the skill.
Proficient
Has functional knowledge of the skill and can apply it properly in specific on-the-job settings.
Advanced
Applies the skill naturally, without having to think about it, including under stressful or challenging circumstances.
One scale, five tracks
A level means "for your track": a proficient middle-school communicator and a proficient career changer have both done well, but not the same thing. So every track's four levels sit on one shared, seven-band Skill Scale, and the tracks overlap.
| Track | Band 1 | Band 2 | Band 3 | Band 4 | Band 5 | Band 6 | Band 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle School | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Advanced | |||
| High School | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Advanced | |||
| Career Starter | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Advanced | |||
| Transitioning Military | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Advanced | |||
| Career Changer | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Advanced |
Read down a column to see which results are equivalent. Band 4, for example, is Middle School Advanced, High School Proficient, Career Starter Developing, and Emerging for Transitioning Military and Career Changers.
Built on real competency data
Every question is written from a real occupational competency statement (NSX, built on O*NET). Each statement carries a mastery level, described in the Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Framework's own words, and the O*NET Job Zone of the occupation it describes. Each track draws its questions from a different Job Zone, so a badge never claims more than its questions measured. Middle school core soft skills align to the MCPSS Career Preparedness list.
Questions, answered.
Are the skills assessments really free?
Yes. Badge My Skills offers free online skills assessments. You sign in with LER.me®, take an assessment, and earn a badge for each skill you demonstrate.
What do I get when I finish an assessment?
A verifiable badge for that skill, issued by LER.me® as an Open Badges 3.0 credential to your LER.me® wallet, at the level you were placed: Emerging, Developing, Proficient or Advanced. Employers can check it.
Which skills can I get badged?
Seven core soft skills (communication, teamwork and collaboration, adaptability and flexibility, critical thinking and problem-solving, emotional intelligence and empathy, time management and organization, and conflict resolution), extra skills for each track, AI-at-work skills such as prompting and AI output verification, and sector fundamentals from high school up.
How long does an assessment take?
Most take about 10 minutes; some longer assessments take around half an hour. Answers save as you go, and once you've earned a badge there's no need to take it again.
Who is Badge My Skills for?
Five tracks: middle school students, high school students, career starters, transitioning military and veterans, and career changers. Each track's levels are set for that track and mapped to one shared seven-band Skill Scale.
How are the assessments built?
Every question is written from a real occupational competency statement (NSX, built on O*NET), with mastery levels described in the Pathsmith™ Durable Skills Framework. Middle school core soft skills align to the MCPSS Career Preparedness list.
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