Records & frameworks
Learning and Employment Record (LER)
A Learning and Employment Record (LER) is a digital, verifiable record of a person’s skills, education, training, and work experience, designed to be portable and interoperable across education and employment systems. LERs give individuals a complete, shareable picture of what they know and can do.
Key takeaways
- Spans both learning and work history
- Verifiable and portable across systems
- Owned and controlled by the individual
- Supports skills-based hiring
- Aggregated from verifiable credentials
What is a Learning and Employment Record?
An LER is a lifelong, cross-system record of skills. It brings together what a person has learned and done, across schools, employers, and training providers, into one verifiable, portable record.
Why LERs matter
LERs support skills-based hiring and worker mobility, and they put individuals in control of their own data rather than leaving it siloed in separate institutions.
How an LER works
Verifiable credentials issued by many sources aggregate into a single record the individual owns and can share, with each claim independently verifiable.
LER vs CLR
A CLR is typically institution-issued and education-focused. An LER spans both education and employment and is individual-centric, a broader, lifelong record.