Here are some frequently asked questions about the Pathway to Management Recognition initiative at King’s.
This is an opportunity for liberal arts graduates who use managerial skills in their work and community lives to have their skills assessed and validated by industry professionals and work towards a professional designation.
King’s acknowledges the support of the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration.
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Pathway to Management Recognition
The endurable skills learned in the liberal arts are a great fit with management, but often liberal arts graduates lack a clear professional credential to prove what they know and can do. If you would like to have your existing management skills assessed and validated by industry professionals and work towards a professional designation as Certified in Management or Chartered Manager, this program could be for you.
A seasoned manager looking for a clear portable credential to prove it?
Use this program to prove your skills and join the profession as Certified in Management or as a Chartered Manager.
A liberal arts graduate and emerging manager?
Use this program as self-initiated professional development: gain professional vocabulary, identify skill gaps, and build an incremental record of your emerging skill set as you elevate your performance on the job.
A liberal arts graduate with more potential than your employer realizes?
You don’t have to start over. Use this program to start from exactly where you are and build a path to where you want to be.
If you are a liberal arts graduate (defined as humanities, social sciences, creative and performing arts) and currently living in Nova Scotia, you are eligible for this opportunity. This initiative is not limited to individuals who attended Nova Scotia universities and there is no limit on years since graduation. Participants self-identity and can start challenging training items and units at any time. At this time, the program is not available to current liberal arts students.
No, you can complete them in any order.
Yes. Every Training Unit lists both “Workplace” and “Civic/Community” as eligible settings, and each Training Item offers evidence examples for both — so one item’s evidence could come from your job and another’s from a volunteer or committee role.
The workplace and civic/community examples are illustrative, not an exact checklist—the learning standard is explicit that “indicative content is not a fixed curriculum.” Evidence is assessed against what the artifact needs to show, not against matching a named example word for word.
Possibly in practice. Each Training Item’s evidence is formally tied to that item’s own Learning Outcomes. The two Training-Unit-level artifacts are separate pieces that come later and consolidate learning from all three training items.
Someone who was close enough to the work to credibly confirm what you contributed and that it matches the stated outcomes, such as a supervisor, manager, or operational lead in a workplace setting or a board officer, committee chair, or volunteer coordinator in a civic/community setting.
You can refine your evidence and resubmit.
This really depends on each individual learner. If you have existing evidence that can be used as artifacts the process could go very quickly. Other evidence you may need to work towards obtaining, which you would do through your own work.
During this pilot program, the full cost of completing Training Items and Training Units is covered by a training levy provided by the Province of Nova Scotia. Having your skills validated and earning digital badges (non-expiring) is free for as long as the levy lasts. However, if a participant completes the full training standard of four core competency areas and four elective competency areas, they may apply to Chartered Managers Canada to be Certified in Management or apply for the higher Chartered Manager designation. These are professional designations that require an annual fee to maintain. Learn more about the CIM and C.Mgr designations by visiting the Chartered Managers Canada website.
Absolutely not! Pathway to Management Recognition is about what you know and can do.