"Skills and certifications" allows you to view, capture and update information on skills
and certifications held by an employee, such as:
Employee Candidate ID for IBM certifications / skills information
Certifications
Non-IBM certifications
Education
Many employees achieve IBM professional certification as part of job development
for career enhancement, to build company proficiencies and in-house skills on
IBM products and to achieve PartnerWorld level requirements. Individuals achieve
IBM professional certifications in order to validate their skills on key IBM
products and solutions.
Skills and certification data in PartnerWorld Profiling System (PPS) can be
used by the Business Partner for several purposes:
To obtain a complete and comprehensive view of Business Partner certifications
To assess education requirements and accurately target skills/development
initiatives
To contribute to the points required for PartnerWorld Advanced and Premier
level qualification
To allow Business Partners to identify other complementary Business Partners
with whom they wish to work as part of Find a Business Partner directory
To meet hardware contract compliance (only for Hardware Business Partners).
Employee candidate ID for IBM certifications/skills:
Allows an employee to add a candidate ID for certifications
The employee's candidate ID is found on the test score report or by
contacting the center where the test was taken
Once a certification has been achieved, the employee's certification
candidate ID can be reported by:
The certified employee (provided the employee updates his/her own profile)
Certifications
You can select to view all certifications held by the employee
You can select whether the employee is in a sales or technical role for
the "Contract Compliance Role"
In order for certifications to be accurately applied, employees must inform
their firm's Authorized Profile Administrator of all updates and/or
changes to their candidate ID
Once the candidate ID has been reported, PPS automatically pulls in a selected
set of applicable certifications achieved by the employee and will generate
points for the company toward attaining a PartnerWorld level
If an employee's candidate ID has already been reported, any subsequent
IBM certifications received will automatically be added to the employee's
profile - no additional action is necessary. Hence, it should only be
necessary to enter the candidate ID once, per employee
Certification records do not immediately appear - the employee's
profile is updated overnight. There is also a delay of five to fifteen working
days between the time an employee takes a certification at one of the test
vendors and reporting of the results in the IBM certification database.
Non-IBM certifications
You can add or remove non-IBM certifications and include the date received
One or more non-IBM certifications may be entered at a time
Each non-IBM certification will require documentation (the certificate)
to be mailed to IBM in order to verify achievement
Select this link to view additional details on Non-IBM Certifications Reporting Process
Education
You can add or edit IBM education received via the options presented
Navigation
To add an employee candidate ID for IBM certifications / skills information
Select "Add a Candidate ID"
Enter the candidate ID for the employee
"Save"
You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
To select whether the employee is in a sales or technical role for the "Contract
Compliance" role:
Select "Sales" or "Technical" from the drop down box
"Save"
You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
To add or remove non-IBM certifications
Select "Add a new non-IBM certification"
Select a certification from the drop down box
Enter the date received (valid date format required is YYYY-MM-DD)
From the certification approval, select "approve", "deny" or "undecided"
"Save"
You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
To add or edit education received by an employee
Select "Add or Edit Entry" from the "Education" area on the page
Choose education received from the drop down box
Select "Save"
You will be taken to a confirmation page and given a confirmation number
Please retain the confirmation number for all future inquiries on the transaction
Checklist
Please note, for non-IBM accepted certifications, the test vendor does not
automatically forward test results to IBM. It is your responsibility to forward
to IBM a copy of the certification skill certificate to receive credit in the
certification data.
Fax: (800)242-6329 (in USA) or (770) 858-2070 (outside USA), and
mark the fax "Attention: BP Certify" (include your e-mail
address in case we need to correspond further with you), or
Mail: Professional Certification Program from IBM
IBM Corporation
IBM PWCS
1500 Riveredge Parkway
5th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30328
USA
(include your e-mail address in case we need to correspond further with you)
