How Can I Get My Experience Certificate After Being Marked as Absconding?

I was an employee of Cognizant Technology Solutions. I worked for nearly 2 years. Since I had to complete my 2 years of experience and appear for the MBA exam, I asked my manager to let me complete the 2 months' notice. However, I didn't go to the office in the meantime to prepare for the MBA exams. I kept checking the emails for the last date, but no such mail had come. After 2 days of my last email check, I was unable to log in. (I should have gone to the company at that point only.) Considering it as a technical glitch, I went to the company, and my manager informed me that I was released a week back. When I asked him about serving the full 2 months, he suggested I have a chat with HR. Unfortunately, I brought up the issue of being absent for more than 1 week, and he said he wouldn't provide me with the experience certificate.

What Can I Do in Such a Case?

I will have a gap of 2 years in my career!!

When you stopped going to the office, was it a sanctioned leave, or did you decide for yourself not to go and prepare for the MBA exam? If it was not sanctioned, your company has done what it should do. Before going on leave, or if your intentions were not wrong, the same should have been communicated to HR along with the Manager to put up an official resignation, serving a proper notice period, and then EXPECTING to receive the experience certificate.

Clarification on Leave and Experience Certificate

When you stopped going to the office, was it a sanctioned leave, or did you decide on your own not to go and prepare for the MBA exam? If it was not sanctioned, your company has done what it should do. Before going on leave, or if your intentions were not wrong, the same should have been communicated to HR along with the Manager to put up an official resignation, serve a proper notice period, and then expect to receive the experience certificate.

I totally understand that the decision I made was hugely erroneous, unprofessional, and immature. Kindly suggest the future course of action because even MBA plans will fall apart with a 2-year gap in my resume.

Thanks in advance.

Only if your company is ready for that, you can request your intentions of paying the notice pay in lieu of an experience certificate. But this call completely depends on what kind of responsibility you were handling and whether it was necessary to hand over the same properly—notice period is meant for that. You can even loop in your manager and ask him to convince the management and HR.