This use case describes an alumni proving their education certification when applying for professional employment.
Many enterprises required skilled resources, and use university degrees as a vital part of their selection criteria for candidates. Marketplaces such as LinkedIn exist to allow people to promote their professional abilities.
Physical degree certificates are cumbersome to have available; and integration into verification services from educational institutes requires two-way trust to implement. Recently, there have been some high profile instances where people had fradudently claimed to have certifications they had not acquired.
By using digital degrees, universities can issue degree certificates that are instanteously verifiable.
| Objective | Enable a potential employee to verify a degree certificate of a job applicant. |
| Description | Use verifiable credentials to allow a graduate and job applicant the ability to prove their qualifications. |
| Actors | Job Applicant |
| Dependencies | Applicant has a digital degree certificate in their wallet |
| Preconditions | The job applicant is applying for a position that has educational requirements |
| Postconditions | The employer receives the job application, including proof of educational certification. |
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