Dovetail 1.0 Guidelines.pdf

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Dovetail

- An Overview

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What is the program?

A one-year technical certification program for trainees in their very first year in Cognizant

A skill upgrade program to provide structured competency development in a specified technical track to enable a career growth path

A benchmarking program to baseline the technical skill set of the trainees in their first year to dovetail them into a set of career development opportunities as they progress after year-1

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What is the program?

Competency development is through self-learning (alongside regular project work)

Dovetail Certification is split into 2 Phases (or assessments)

Phase I Competencies to be acquired in the first 7 months in the specified track

Phase II Competencies to be acquired in the next 4 months in the specified track (successful Phase I completion is mandatory before starting Phase II)

Successful completion of Phase I and Phase II assessments is a pre-requisite for confirming the trainee in the 12th month


Benefits

To provide strong organizational engagement with the associates from their very first year at Cognizant

To incubate learning as a critical activity

To promote career development of the associate right from the first year through structured competency development

To enable consistency in benchmarking campus recruits from diverse educational backgrounds


Learning

When to start

Trainees are enrolled into Dovetail after CATP.

Learning Mode

Self paced

Learning Materials

Trainees are provided access to Skillsoft e-learning courses in ELM. Trainees are also advised to enroll themselves to internal eLearning's and ILT (classroom) training sessions conducted by the Academy from time to time and benefit out of the same. More details of the same would be available at https://compass.learning.cognizant.com

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System demo screens

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System Screens Associate View

Log on to https:\\compass.learning.cognizant.com

using your Network ID and password

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Click on your dovetail track link from All learning page

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Click on Register button to register for Phase1 track

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eLearning - Dovetail system Guide

Log on to https://compass.learning.cognizant.com with your Network ID and the password.

Click Search Catalog on Self-Service and then enter the code NQTLF8 to access ELM for Dovetail Users (eLearning)

Submit Enrolment and launch the course

Go through this e-learning ELM for Dovetail users to know more about

1. How to register for Phase 1/Phase 2 2. How to launch the contents 3. How to Schedule/reschedule an assessment 4. How to View scores


Dovetail Assessments

Phase I Assessments:

Scope: Competencies to be acquired in 1-6 months in the specified track

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of CATP

Assessment window: 5th to 7th month from Date of Joining

Max. No. of Attempts for each assessment: 2

Phase II Assessments:

Scope: Competencies to be acquired in 7-11 months in the specified track

Pre-requisite : Successful completion of Phase I

Assessment window: 8th to 11th month from Date of Joining

Max. No. of Attempts for each assessment: 2


Dovetail Assessments

The assessments must be scheduled in ELM.

The assessments have to be taken only on the date and timeslot scheduled in ELM and only in a proctored environment at one of the designated Cognizant locations.

Trainees are required to clear assessments conducted through internal dovetail portal as applicable.

A two week gap is mandatory between taking two attempts of the same assessment

Passing grade is 60%

No extension of timelines / extra attempts would be given.

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Dovetail Tracks


Tracks offered in Dovetail 1.0

AS400

DW

Data Architecture

SAP ABAP BASIS Netweaver

CSP Siebel MSCRM AmdocClarify SFDC CRM Testing BPM CDI Chordiant

A track is a specialization on which a trainee needs to acquire specific set of competencies. Below are the competency tracks that can support long-term career growth of the associate.


Tracks change process

Default track assigned to trainee

A trainee is by default allocated to the track in which he or she has been trained

during the CATP and based on the vertical/Horizontal allocation.

Change of default track

In case of any changed business requirement / technology, the Business Unit

decides on changing the dovetail track of a trainee. Any change from the default

track should be relevant to the trainees current project engagement or the

long-term career growth path of the trainee.

Track change is entertained only if there is a compelling business case

associated with it.

The trainee should send an approval mail from the supervisor to the Dovetail

helpdesk team requesting enablement of track change in ELM.

Change of track needs to be initiated within 2 weeks from the day of dovetail

enrollment


Performance Management

The trainee needs to clear Dovetail certification (i.e. successfully clear Phase I and Phase II assessments) before the completion of 11th month from Date of Joining (DOJ) in order to be eligible for confirmation.

Obtaining Dovetail certification only does not guarantee confirmation. It is one of the eligibility criterion.

If the trainee has not cleared Dovetail assessments, his or her performance document will not be generated and the supervisor will be intimated of the same.


Dovetail Caf - Community

Dovetail Caf Community offer many paths to help you succeed in the Dovetail Certifications.

Happenings of Dovetail Caf:-

Dovetail Track Booths

Announcements

Ask the Expert

Knowledge Sharing

Connect with Batch Owner

Discussion threads


Dovetail Support

Supervisor: Overall support and guidance Approval for change of Dovetail track

Academy Service Champion Academy POC for Intervention programs to assist your learning

Dovetail Help Desk Queries related to

Track change Process Assessments Any other issue

GSD For any queries related to Dovetail, please raise a GSD ticket under Academy category against the relevant category (refer snapshot in the next slide)

GSD Helpdesk


Dovetail 1.0 Guidelines.pdf

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