Trick to get early Date of Joining in Top IT companies like Cognizant
Early Engagement modules implies to your early joining in most of the cases but only doing Early Engagement modules are not enough to get early Date of Joining.
Early Engagement is a learning portal, where you can learn basic concepts of C programming, SQL, OOPs, UNIX and Shell Scripting, Datawarehousing Basics, DBMS and Data Modelling, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and Testing etc.Based on your performance in Early Engagement you will be classified into two things. One is POS(Potential Orbit Shifter) and another one is PSE(Potential Shift Enabler).
POS (Potential Orbit Shifter): a learner who has exhibited consistent self-learning ability, daily attending all the learning activities (attending, scoring, winning) and who has hence displayed the self-drive to craft their Information Technology (IT) career path seriously.
Pic Courtesy: Cognizant Early Engagement
Advantages of POS:
As an Early Engagement Top Performer, you'll be given the opportunity to be considered for the following:
Pic Courtesy: Cognizant Early Engagement
It's just an opportunity, not guarantee. To clear this opportunity, you'll have to prove that you are a Top Performer when you join the organization!
PSE (Potential Shift Enabler): A person who has exhibited moderate consistency in self-learning, working on Early Engagement activities and needs a bit of assistance or push to work on their IT career path.
Advantages of PSE:
Post joining, PSEs will be given some assessment in their first week at Cognizant. In the past, it was either Hacker Earth challenge, or Programming Fundamentals & SQL assessments. Clearing such assessments will enable a PSE to become Shift Enabler. Not clearing will retain you as PSE.
Shift Enablers get into an experiential learning mode, where learning happens by working on real projects with real use cases or users. You don,t have day-long classes, with trainers talking for hours. You just do and learn!
PSEs will get into an active learning mode, where learning happens like in the Programming using Java modules, but more intensive and focused. You will daily huddle in the morning to set the agenda for the day. You will timed events, and you will also have a daily review of where you went wrong or what you should have done. Again, you will not have any trainers, and you will learn on your own!
Some PSEs will also get into a gamified learning set-up, where your entire learning will be like playing Age of Empires or Clash of Clans.
Bottom-line - POS & PSE will have to learn on their own!
If I am POS or PSE once, am I guaranteed to be POS or PSE forever?
Ofcourse no. You have to keep performing to retain your position as POS or PSE.
All you have to do to become a Top Performer:
Do Early Engagement well, learn how to learn, participate in as many EE activities as possible, win as much as possible, practice-practice-practice, and finally.
Now coming to the most awaited part,
When will i get my Date of Joining?
Well! it depends on their business requirements. Secondary it depends on your EE profile where your skills are considered and if those skills meets their business requirement then you will be called but at the same time if many people have got the same skills as you got then your EE rank will play crucial role where you have to be on front-foot. Sometimes we wonder that person who didn,t even start his EE learning but got Date of Joining, in this case they own very unique skills which you may not have.
So yes! Early Engagement helps you in many aspects but it doesn't mean that you will be getting early joining just because of EE performance.
By March of next year 99% of learners can get their date of joining as per previous record.
You can get further clarification in comment section below.
Early Engagement is a learning portal, where you can learn basic concepts of C programming, SQL, OOPs, UNIX and Shell Scripting, Datawarehousing Basics, DBMS and Data Modelling, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and Testing etc.Based on your performance in Early Engagement you will be classified into two things. One is POS(Potential Orbit Shifter) and another one is PSE(Potential Shift Enabler).
POS (Potential Orbit Shifter): a learner who has exhibited consistent self-learning ability, daily attending all the learning activities (attending, scoring, winning) and who has hence displayed the self-drive to craft their Information Technology (IT) career path seriously.
Pic Courtesy: Cognizant Early Engagement
Advantages of POS:
As an Early Engagement Top Performer, you'll be given the opportunity to be considered for the following:
- Project in niche & trending technology.
- Very senior coaches for Business, Learning & Communication.
- They will consider personal technology aspiration.
- No training and assessment will be conducted for POS.
- Just on the job learning, like apprenticeship.
- Exquisite regular connect with senior leaders.
- Direct visibility at top level leadership.
Pic Courtesy: Cognizant Early Engagement
It's just an opportunity, not guarantee. To clear this opportunity, you'll have to prove that you are a Top Performer when you join the organization!
PSE (Potential Shift Enabler): A person who has exhibited moderate consistency in self-learning, working on Early Engagement activities and needs a bit of assistance or push to work on their IT career path.
Advantages of PSE:
Post joining, PSEs will be given some assessment in their first week at Cognizant. In the past, it was either Hacker Earth challenge, or Programming Fundamentals & SQL assessments. Clearing such assessments will enable a PSE to become Shift Enabler. Not clearing will retain you as PSE.
Shift Enablers get into an experiential learning mode, where learning happens by working on real projects with real use cases or users. You don,t have day-long classes, with trainers talking for hours. You just do and learn!
PSEs will get into an active learning mode, where learning happens like in the Programming using Java modules, but more intensive and focused. You will daily huddle in the morning to set the agenda for the day. You will timed events, and you will also have a daily review of where you went wrong or what you should have done. Again, you will not have any trainers, and you will learn on your own!
Some PSEs will also get into a gamified learning set-up, where your entire learning will be like playing Age of Empires or Clash of Clans.
Bottom-line - POS & PSE will have to learn on their own!
If I am POS or PSE once, am I guaranteed to be POS or PSE forever?
Ofcourse no. You have to keep performing to retain your position as POS or PSE.
All you have to do to become a Top Performer:
Do Early Engagement well, learn how to learn, participate in as many EE activities as possible, win as much as possible, practice-practice-practice, and finally.
Now coming to the most awaited part,
When will i get my Date of Joining?
Well! it depends on their business requirements. Secondary it depends on your EE profile where your skills are considered and if those skills meets their business requirement then you will be called but at the same time if many people have got the same skills as you got then your EE rank will play crucial role where you have to be on front-foot. Sometimes we wonder that person who didn,t even start his EE learning but got Date of Joining, in this case they own very unique skills which you may not have.
So yes! Early Engagement helps you in many aspects but it doesn't mean that you will be getting early joining just because of EE performance.
By March of next year 99% of learners can get their date of joining as per previous record.
You can get further clarification in comment section below.
Trick to get early Date of Joining in Top IT companies like Cognizant
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