One source of truth. Every credential. Every learner.
Programs, occupations, opportunities and services — registered once, aligned to every standard, and issued as OBv3 and CLR 2.0 credentials and personalized recommendations directly into the learner's LER wallet.
Free contributors and paid providers welcome.
Four catalogs. One Talent Marketplace.
The Credential Registry is the structured backbone of every LER.me Talent Marketplace — programs, occupations, opportunities and wraparound services, all aligned and connected.
Education and training pathways from any provider — colleges, technical schools, bootcamps, registered apprenticeships.
- Degrees, certificates, certifications
- Apprenticeships & pre-apprenticeships
- Short-form training & bootcamps
- Stackable & modular credentials
The full O*NET / SOC occupation taxonomy — with skills, wages, and BLS jobs projections aligned to every program.
- Skills & competencies
- Median & entry wages by region
- 10-year jobs projections
- Career pathways & mobility
Real, claimable openings tied to programs and occupations — from employers, sponsors and intermediaries.
- Jobs & career-track roles
- Registered apprenticeships
- Internships & co-ops
- Work-based learning (WBL)
The wraparound supports that make completion possible — registered alongside programs, with eligibility built in.
- SNAP · TANF · WIC
- Childcare subsidies (CCDF)
- Transportation assistance
- Housing & emergency aid
Issued to LER wallets.
Every program, work experience, demonstrated skill or assessment can be issued as an Open Badges 3.0 or Comprehensive Learner Record 2.0 credential — cryptographically verifiable, citizen-owned, and portable across every LER-aligned system.
From the registry to the learner's wallet — in one click.
Any credential registry record — a program completion, a WBL placement, a skill assessment — can be issued as an OBv3 verifiable credential and dropped directly into the learner's LER.me wallet. The standard is open. The data is the learner's. The credential travels with them, forever.
- ✓ OBv3 — Open Badges 3.0 verifiable credentials
- ✓ CLR 2.0 LER — Comprehensive Learner Record assemblies
- ✓ Cryptographic verification & revocation
- ✓ Citizen-owned, portable, free for learners
Free contributors. Paid providers.
Same registry.
Every LER.me Talent Marketplace is open. Anyone can register a program, occupation, opportunity or service. Both free contributors and paid providers can issue validated, verifiable OBv3 credentials.
Anyone with a verified record
Community-based organizations, employers, public agencies and individuals can contribute records to the registry at no cost — with the same verification standards as paid providers.
- Register programs, occupations, opportunities & services
- Issue OBv3 credentials from any registry record
- Issue WBL & work experience credentials
- Issue demonstrated skills & assessment results
- Issue up to 100 badges at a time per registry record
Everything free, plus the platform
Paid providers get the full Talent Marketplace platform — case management, AI catalog parser, branded marketplace, advanced analytics — on top of the same registry & credentialing capabilities.
- Everything in Free Contributor
- Automated bulk issuance via systems-of-record integration — SIS, LMS, ATS, HRIS
- AI-enabled catalog parser & alignment
- Branded Talent Marketplace
- Case management + WIOA-aligned reporting
- Workforce Pell eligibility calculator
- Priority support & SLAs
Issuance covers: programs · work & WBL experiences · demonstrated skills · assessments (virtual & in-person) · in-process credentials
LER holders self-attest. Issuers endorse.
Credentials don't only flow top-down. Any LER holder can self-attest any registry record — a program completion, a work experience, a skill — and then request endorsement from a verified issuer to upgrade it to a verifiable credential.
Claim any registry record
Pick from the registry: a program you completed, a job you worked, a skill you have. Add evidence — files, links, a description.
Marked self-attested
Lives in the LER wallet alongside verified credentials, transparently labelled. Visible to anyone the holder shares it with.
Verified credential
Request endorsement from a verified issuer — an employer, college, instructor or registered provider — to upgrade the record to a fully-validated OBv3 / CLR 2.0 credential.
Self-attestation puts the learner in the driver's seat. Endorsement keeps the record trustworthy. Both states are transparently labelled in the wallet — so consumers of the credential always know what they're looking at.
Lossless ingest. Automatic alignment. Hours, not weeks.
Drop in a course catalog, a program PDF, a provider website. The AI parser delivers a lossless transformation into structured, standards-aligned registry records — saving providers tons of manual work and making programs transparent and accountable.
Lossless ingest
Every detail in the source catalog is preserved. Nothing thrown away, nothing approximated — providers don't lose institutional knowledge to standardization.
Occupational alignment
Automatic alignment to O*NET skills, BLS wage data, and 10-year jobs projections — every program connected to the careers it actually leads to.
Eligibility calculator
Calculates eligibility for federal & state programs — including Workforce Pell, traditional Pell, WIOA ITA, GI Bill, and state-specific scholarships.
Standards crosswalk
Crosswalked to every major standard, code and source — so the same record is accurate whether queried by O*NET, BLS, IPEDS, CIP, SOC, NAICS, or CTDL.
From any registry record to a skills-based opportunity — in seconds.
The job-description generator turns any registry record — a program, a career, an occupation, an existing job — into a fully skills-based opportunity and personalized pathway. We call them opportunities because they cover more than employment: jobs, apprenticeships, internships, co-ops, fellowships, work-based learning.
From program → opportunity → candidate match. Same skills profile, end to end.
Three modes for every opportunity
Pick the mode that fits — switch anytime. The skills profile stays consistent.
Public job post
Indexable, crawlable, application-ready. Reaches job boards, search engines and GenAI surfaces and matches with qualified candidates.
Internal / invite-only
Same skills-based opportunity, but only surfaced to a defined audience — case-managed clients, partner programs, sponsored cohorts.
Reference / catalog
Use the skills profile as a description for career exploration, planning or alignment — no application surface attached.
Publish once. Reach everywhere.
Open posts published in the LER.me Talent Marketplace registries are indexed by major job boards, optimized for GenAI platforms and LLMs, and surfaced through traditional search. One publish action, full distribution.
- ✓ Crawled by major job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn, Google for Jobs, ZipRecruiter, etc.)
- ✓ Optimized for GenAI / LLM citation (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini)
- ✓ Schema.org JobPosting markup, sitemap inclusion, structured data
- ✓ Skills-based candidate matching against verified LER wallet holders
A registry that makes every AI more accurate.
A national, standards-aligned credential registry isn't just useful for our apps. It's grounding data for every AI experience that touches workforce, education, or career questions — local agency chatbots, state-developed marketplaces, and the big GenAI platforms.
Crosswalked to every major source.
The registry doesn't pick a winner — it speaks every standard. See the full coverage at ler.me/codes-skills and ler.me/ler-standards.
A registry, scaled.
Free, open-access registries
Aligned to CIP, SOC & NAICS
O*NET · BLS · CIP · SOC · NAICS · IPEDS · RAPIDS · OBv3 · CTDL
Free, open-access by design
Sibling LER platforms
Each LER.me promo site goes deep on one slice of the workforce ecosystem. These are closely related to this one — same data, same wallet, different front door.
Learning & Employment Records
Your citizen-owned LER wallet — every program, skill and experience you have earned.
Durable Skills Marketplace
The Pathsmith Durable Skills Framework — exclusively on LER.me.
LER Recommendations
Hyper-personalized recommendations across opportunities, learning paths, careers and services.
Bring your catalog. We'll do the rest.
Whether you're a state agency standing up a Talent Marketplace, a college aligning programs to occupations, or an employer publishing apprenticeships — get on the registry in days, not months.