Turn Your Internship into a Credential

Recognize your non-credit internship experience with a digital badge you can showcase on LinkedIn and share with future employers. Once an internship is verified and approved, Career Services will issue its badge on the last Friday of that month.

Submit Internship for Verification

What It Recognizes

The Internship Completion Badge recognizes students who have successfully completed an internship in their field of study. It celebrates initiative, professionalism, and a commitment to real-world, applied learning.

Earning it demonstrates career readiness and a proactive investment in your professional growth—visible right on your LinkedIn profile.

Skills You'll Demonstrate

  • Career Readiness
  • Applied Learning
  • Professionalism
  • Initiative
  • Workplace Communication

How to Earn the Badge

  1. Complete a relevant internship. Your internship should relate to your field of study or career interests, and reflect professionalism, initiative, and engagement throughout.
  2. Submit your internship for verification. Fill out the Non-Credit Student Internship Submission Form with your sponsor's contact information—this kicks off employer verification automatically.

The Process

  1. Submit the form.
  2. Your employer/sponsor will receive an automatic email to confirm the internship details.
  3. Once your employer confirms the internship details, Career Services will be notified. (You will also receive notification.)
  4. Career Services will issue badges for verified internships on the last Friday of the month in which the approval is confirmed.
  5. Next, you will receive an email from Parchment Digital Badges.
  6. Use the link in that email to claim your badge. If you do not see the message, check your junk or spam folder.
  7. Create your Parchment account. You can access, manage, and share your badge through Parchment Digital Badges.

Accessing Your Badge

  • Open the badge notification email from Parchment or go to the Parchment Digital Badges login page.
  • Sign in to your Parchment account or create a new account using your Penn State email ([email protected]).
  • Add the badge to your Digital Badges backpack.
  • Add a personal or secondary email address to your Parchment account to ensure you will have access to your badge after leaving Penn State.

Instructions for managing your Parchment account, updating your profile, and adding a personal email address are available in Manage a Parchment Digital Badges Account.

Share Your Achievement

Badges can be easily shared in a variety of ways. You can share direct links to your credential, add them to your LinkedIn Profile, and share badges with your professional networks to let others know about your accomplishment.

For additional instructions on how to share badges, see Share Earned Badges from a Parchment Digital Badges Backpack.