Recommended Credentials

Why It Matters

“Familiarity with AI tools is a plus” sits in a job description and nobody acts on it. A recommended credential names the same thing at the moment a candidate is actually paying attention — just after they applied — and points them at free courses. Candidates who already hold it can say so; candidates who don’t can go and get it.

It is a recommendation, not a requirement. Nothing about it is automated.

Enabling It on a Job Posting

The Recommended credentials section sits on the job posting form, when you create or edit a posting. It is off by default: no credential is ticked, no candidate is emailed.

The help text on the form states the rule the whole feature runs on:

Tick a credential you would value for this role. Candidates are invited to show it if they have it, and you see exactly what they sent. Kit does not score, rank, filter, or reject anyone on this, and nothing here happens automatically.

Tick the credentials you would value and save. The catalogue is curated by Kit, so the courses behind each credential are the same for every account. Today it holds one entry, AI literacy — knowing what generative AI can and cannot do, and how to use it responsibly at work.

What the Candidate Receives

A few minutes after their application is submitted, the candidate gets one email. It names your company, the role, and the credential you flagged, lists free courses that cover it, and offers a page where they can share evidence they already hold it.

The email says plainly that this is optional, that doing nothing does not weaken the application they already sent, and that it is the only email Kit will send them about it. There are no reminders, no resend, and no deadline.

On the page they can either paste a link to a public badge or certificate — only from recognised credential sites — or upload the certificate as a PDF, PNG, JPEG or WebP. They can also decline, or simply close the tab.

The email and the page are sent in the posting’s communication language and carry your branding, so a candidate never leaves your hiring process to read Kit’s own documentation.

What You See Back

If the candidate shares something, a Credentials the candidate shared section appears on their application, under the heading’s note:

Sent by the candidate. Kit does not open, check, or verify any of this, and nothing here is scored, ranked, or filtered.

Each entry shows the credential, the date it was shared, and the evidence itself:

• A link — the host is shown first, in bold, so you decide whether to open it before you click. The full URL sits underneath.
• A file — an attachment you download and open yourself, like any other file on the application.

The applications list also puts a small link or paper-clip icon on rows where something was shared, so you can spot them without opening every application.

Judging what you see is entirely your call. Kit never opens the link, never reads the file, and never changes a candidate’s position in your pipeline because of either.