Open Campus launches credential hiring pilot with SKALE and Le & Associates in Vietnam

New initiative will test whether verified digital credentials can improve how students move from education into employment.

Open Campus, Le & Associates, and SKALE are launching a pilot in Vietnam to test whether verified digital credentials can be used to support recruitment and hiring decisions.

The initiative will explore how academic achievements and skills records can be shared directly with employers through digital credentials, allowing companies to evaluate candidates based on verified information rather than relying primarily on traditional resumes. The project will initially focus on students leaving high school or university and entering the workforce.

Testing digital credentials in recruitment

The pilot combines Open Campus’s credential and identity infrastructure with Le & Associates’s recruitment expertise and SKALE’s digital hiring platform.

The partners say the project will examine whether portable credentials can improve how employers verify applicants’ skills while helping candidates present formal learning achievements in a clearer way during hiring processes.

Pham Thi My Le, Founder and Chairwoman at Le & Associates, says: “In Vietnam’s fast-moving labor market, candidates and employers often struggle to clearly signal and match skills and capabilities.

“Verifiable credentials can help bridge this gap by giving employers more trusted information, while enabling candidates to present their achievements with greater clarity and confidence.”

AI-powered recruitment tools included in the pilot

SKALE will contribute its online recruitment platform as part of the initiative, including AI-based tools designed to support candidate screening and job matching.

Truong Binh Nguyen, Chief Executive Officer at SKALE, says: “SKALE is proud to contribute our online recruitment platform to this initiative.

“By leveraging AI-powered matching and intelligent screening, we seek to accelerate hiring cycles, enhance talent quality, and foster a more transparent and scalable bridge between enterprises and educational institutions.”

Exploring credential infrastructure for hiring

The project also reflects wider experimentation across EdTech and workforce technology around digital credentials and identity systems.

Open Campus says the Vietnam pilot will test how verifiable credentials could function in real hiring workflows, including how employers validate candidate achievements.

Jonah Lau, Project Lead and Core Contributor at Open Campus, says: “Vietnam is a market where education, skills, and employment pathways are rapidly evolving.

“We are excited to collaborate with Le & Associates and SKALE to demonstrate how verifiable credentials can be used in real hiring workflows - helping learners demonstrate what they have achieved and supporting employers to evaluate candidates with more trusted signals of skills and capabilities.”

The partners say insights from the pilot will inform future development of credential-based recruitment systems and broader adoption of Open Campus ID across Vietnam’s talent economy.

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