Whether you are looking for your first job, a change of direction, or a way back into work, we can help you show what you can do and find opportunities to build on it. We do not place anyone into a job. What we do is make your skills visible and easy to check, point you at chances to grow them, and surface live vacancies matched to the learning you are doing.

A digital badge is a record of something you learned or achieved that you can share across the web. It carries who issued it, what you did to earn it, and proof that it belongs to you.

Every badge you claim gets its own public page. Share that link with an employer, or with anyone else you want to show it to.

The page shows the badge, who issued it, when it was issued and who to, and the skills you demonstrated in earning it. Anyone looking at it can select Verify to check the badge for themselves, and they do not need a Navigatr account to do it.

Once you have claimed a badge, put it where a recruiter will see it: your CV, your LinkedIn profile, or your email signature. Adding Badges to Your CV covers the certificate, the badge file itself, and adding it to LinkedIn.

You will find both on the Discover page, where you can filter by Activities and Pathways, on a provider's or community's own page, or from a link someone shares with you.

Activities are single things you can take part in, including workshops, training, courses, events and volunteering. Each one is tied to a badge, which you earn once the organiser marks you as having attended, so the time you put in leaves you with something you can show for it. Understanding Activities on Navigatr covers what is in an activity and how to register for one.

Volunteering is worth a look if you are between jobs. It builds recent, evidenced experience you can point to on an application.

A pathway goes further than a single activity: it is a set of badges grouped into steps, built to take you through a topic or a skill set. Work through the steps and you finish with a record of the whole journey, and on some pathways a completion badge as well. Understanding Pathways on Navigatr explains how they are put together.

Pathways also drive the job matching below. Each one is tagged with the skills and industries it covers, and those tags are what we match live vacancies against.

Some pathways carry a section called Related Jobs at the foot of the page, below the badge steps. You may also see this called the Job Feed.

These are real vacancies from the live job market, powered by Lightcast, matched to that pathway's skills and industries. They are not our own adverts. Selecting one takes you out to the site advertising the role, where you apply directly with the employer. Each listing shows the job title, the employer, the salary and location where the advert gives them, and how recently it was posted.

You do not need to have started the pathway to see it. Anyone viewing the page can browse the listings, though logging in gives you more control over what appears.

A row of chips sits just above the listings. Select any chip to open its options, choose what you want, then select Apply. You may see up to five:

Two of the options, Near my desired location and Near my current location, work only when you are logged in. If nothing matches the location you picked, we widen the search rather than show you an empty list, and say so above the results.

The filters above last for one visit. Your career settings are remembered, and they pre-fill the filters on every pathway you open.

To set them, select your avatar, then Settings, then My Career in the sidebar. There are two groups of fields, one for where you are now and one for where you would like to be, and everything in them is optional.

Two fields do most of the work for job matching. Your City/Town under Where I'd like to be feeds Near my desired location, and your address under About Me feeds Near my current location. Setting Your Career Aspirations walks through every field.