How do you add your MOS Excel certification to LinkedIn and your résumé?

Nothing is handed to you at the testing center beyond your score. Certiport, the company that administers the MOS exam, uses Credly as its digital badging platform — that is confirmed directly on Certiport's own MOS badging page, which describes Credly as the service that "helps students move forward professionally by quickly establishing credibility for opportunities in higher education and the job market." Credly badges issued through Certiport are managed on Credly going forward, including any badge that was originally issued under Credly's older Acclaim branding.

There is no published guarantee for exactly how fast the claim email arrives, and Certiport's own FAQ does not commit to a number either — what it does confirm is that a printed paper certificate takes 2-4 weeks to arrive by mail inside the U.S., and 3-5 weeks internationally. Whatever the exact timing on the digital badge turns out to be for you, it is the faster route to something you can actually show someone, and it is worth checking for before assuming your certificate hasn't arrived yet.

Credly's own badge-earner support page describes the process directly: "You will receive an email notification from Credly (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account." From there, "Follow the link in the email you received telling you about the credential... You'll be asked to create an account and confirm your email. After you create the account and log in, accept the badge!"

If you cannot find that email, do not assume it means nothing was issued. Create an account directly at credly.com using the same email address Certiport has on file for you — badges are matched by that email, not by searching for one specific message. If a badge you expect still does not show up, that is a Certiport account issue rather than something Credly or LinkedIn can fix on their end: Certiport's own badging page lists 800-497-8923 as the number to call.

Once the badge is claimed, Credly's badge-earner support page describes the sharing flow: log into credly.com, select the badge, click the green Share button at the top of the page, and use the Share Badge screen's tabs to connect to LinkedIn and post it directly. That is the fastest path if you want the badge to show up as a shared post as well as on your profile.

To add it as a formal credential rather than a post, LinkedIn's own Help Center describes the manual route: from your profile, use "Add profile section," choose "Add licenses & certifications" from the Recommended options, and fill in the pop-up form. Type the issuing organization carefully — a matching company entry appears as you type, and selecting the real one is what makes its logo show up next to the entry instead of a blank placeholder.

Here is the detail worth knowing before you start either route: LinkedIn changed how its "Add to Profile" button behaves — the kind of button an issuer like Credly can put in a claim email or share screen. It used to prefill your certification details automatically. Per LinkedIn's own Help Center, "certificate or degree information doesn't autofill, but you can add the relevant information directly" — existing customized buttons "will continue to work, but they'll now direct to the new experience without auto-filling certificate or degree information." In plain terms: expect to type the credential name, issuing organization, and dates yourself now, whichever route you take. Have them ready before you start rather than discovering the form is blank partway through.

One field is worth filling in deliberately rather than skipping: Credential URL. Paste in the public link to your Credly badge here, and LinkedIn adds a "Show credential" button to the entry that lets anyone viewing your profile click through and verify it themselves. Leave it blank and the entry reads as a self-reported line, no different from typing the certification name with nothing behind it.

A résumé is a static document, so none of the LinkedIn or Credly sharing mechanics apply directly — there is no equivalent "Add to Profile" flow. What you can do is make the entry checkable rather than just a claim: copy the badge's public URL from Credly's Share screen and add it as a line under the credential, the same public link that gives LinkedIn its Show credential button.

Get the credential name exactly right rather than paraphrasing it. The MO-210 credential's actual title, per Microsoft's own credential page, is "Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps)" — write that (or a close, recognizable version of it) rather than something looser like "Excel Certified," which a hiring manager familiar with the credential landscape will not immediately map to a real, verifiable exam.

A Credly badge is keyed to the name and email your certifying body has on file — for MOS, that is your Certiport account. If the name on the badge is wrong, fixing it on LinkedIn or in Credly's own profile settings will not fix the underlying record; you need to correct it with Certiport directly, since a reissued or corrected badge follows from a corrected Certiport record, not the other way around.