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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Changing careers? Here's some advice
Refresh your skills
Certification
Networking
Consulting
Outsourcing questions Books/discussions/other resources
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| Changing careers? Here's some advice... | Return to Table of Contents |
"The best way to make career transitions is to find a way to 'leverage' your current skills and show the employer who will be 'cross-training' you that you have something to offer them right away."
-- Jon Reed
- Expert advice>FAQ: Careers/certification (SearchSAP.com)
- Finding your special niche (SearchSAP.com)
- Breaking into SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Training for a career change (SearchSAP.com)
- Hot areas: BW, portals or APO? (SearchSAP.com)
- Springing to managerial level (SearchSAP.com)
- Advisable: Project manager to consultant? (SearchSAP.com)
- Moving to the functional side (SearchSAP.com)
- Should I become an SAP trainer? (SearchSAP.com
- Should I make a move to NetWeaver? (SearchSAP.com)
- Creating a career in NetWeaver (SearchSAP.com)
- BW or NetWeaver? (SearchSAP.com)
- What is required for BW? (SearchSAP.com)
- Is mySAP ERP important for the future? (SearchSAP.com)
- Transferring from one ERP to another (SearchSAP.com)
- Using .NET experience in ERP (SearchSAP.com)
- From Java to NetWeaver or ABAP? (SearchSAP.com)
- Career move for ABAPer (SearchSAP.com)
- After ABAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Jobs vulnerable to outsourcing (SearchSAP.com)
- Switching to CRM (SearchSAP.com)
- Should I jump into SAP SD or CRM? (SearchSAP.com)
- Expert advice>SD to CRM (SearchSAP.com)
- From security consultant into SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Chance of working in security after a two-year absence (SearchSAP.com)
- Take an SRM position with no MM experience? (SearchSAP.com)
- Position within SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Switching to SAP XI or J2EE (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP PLM or XI? (SearchSAP.com)
- Starting out in SAP PLM (SearchSAP.com)
- Moving to SAP PLM (SearchSAP.com)
- Changing from authorizations to financial configuration (SearchSAP.com)
You'll find even more expert advice on changing careers in our Ask the Expert section. If you're looking for personal advice, send in a question to our resident expert Jon Reed.
| Refresh your skills | Return to Table of Contents |
- Expanding and growing in SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Keeping ABAP skills fresh (SearchSAP.com)
- Consultant wanna-be? (SearchSAP.com)
- 10 consulting notes for CO-PA analysts (SearchSAP.com)
- Is This Job All There Is? (ITtoolbox)
- Getting training down to a science (IT toolbox)
- How to Prepare for a Performance Appraisal (ITtoolbox)
- IT Skills for Tomorrow
(ITtoolbox)
- ROI, Security Driving IT Employment Trends (ITtoolbox)
- Trends in the Job Marketplace: The Reemergence of Multiple and Counter Offers (ITtoolbox)
- Career Changers Consider a
B-School Injection (ITtoolbox)
- Consulting Will Remain Bright Spot for IT Employment (ITtoolbox)
- Six Tips for Effective Career
Development Programs (ITtoolbox)
- Don't Become a Dinosaur (ITtoolbox)
| Certification | Return to Table of Contents |
- Considering certification (SearchSAP.com)
- Is ABAP certification right for me? (SearchSAP.com)
- Is SAP Basis certification required? (SearchSAP.com)
- FI or CO certification (SearchSAP.com)
- Will NetWeaver or WAS certification help advance career? (SearchSAP.com)
- Do Basis positions require certification?(SearchSAP.com)
- Do I need ABAP/NetWeaver certification? (SearchSAP.com)
- Certified, yet jobless (SearchSAP.com)
- Do Java skills help with SAP certification?(SearchSAP.com)
- Certification Navigation: Five Strategies for Success (ITtoolbox)
- Developer Certifications: Joining the Mainstream (ITtoolbox)
- Certification Navigation: Five Strategies for Success (IT toolbox)
- Developer Certifications: Joining the Mainstream (ITtoolbox)
| Networking | Return to Table of Contents |
"Improving your soft skills can only benefit your career and help your organization ... if you're an individual IT professional who wants to improve your interpersonal skills, you can pitch the idea of a full-scale training program to your upper management, or you can attend a seminar series outside the company. You can also consider hiring a personal coach. While natural leadership skills are good, few [IT managers] can claim they have nothing to gain from some extra coaching."
-- Krissi Danielsson, freelance writer, covering IT careers
- Sharpening up your soft skills (SearchSAP.com)
- Networking Resources (ITtoolbox)
- Eleven Commandments for Smart Negotiating (ITtoolbox)
- PR 101: Getting Credit for Your Work (ITtoolbox)
- Standing Out from the Crowd (ITtoolbox)
- Meet the New Boss, Not the Same as the Old Boss (ITtoolbox)
- Want to Succeed in Your Career? (ITtoolbox)
- Building Bridges: Making a Graceful Exit From a Job (ITtoolbox)
| Consulting | Return to Table of Contents |
You need two things to succeed as an independent SAP consultant: You need a hot, niche skill, backed up by years of relevant, focused experience, and you need client references from multiple SAP projects.
-- Jon Reed
- Consulting 101 (SearchSAP.com)
- Breaking into SAP consulting (SearchSAP.com)
- Common consulting job terms explained (SearchSAP.com)
- Am I good candidate for a SAP CRM consultant career? (SearchSAP.com)
- Functional vs. technical SAP consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Persuing a career as a functional SD consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Is certification helpful to become a consultant? (SearchSAP.com)
- What will be the demand for SAP Basis consultants in the future? (SearchSAP.com)
- Questions about becoming a functional consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Becoming a functional consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Becoming a functional IT consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Career change -- tech consulting to modules consulting (SearchSAP.com)
- Chance to join SAP consultancy firm and learn ABAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Establishing a part-time SAP consulting role (SearchSAP.com)
- Typical career path for an SD functional consultant (SearchSAP.com)
- Hourly rate for security consulting (SearchSAP.com)
- A State of the Union on the Consulting Industry (ITtoolbox)
- Consulting Will Remain Bright Spot for IT Employment (ITtoolbox)
- The Consultant's Fee Calculation Formula (ITtoolbox)
| Outsourcing questions | Return to Table of Contents |
- Career Strategies for the Age of Global Outsourcing (ITtoolbox)
- Life After Outsourcing (ITtoolbox)
- Offshoring and the Future of the U.S. IT Worker (ITtoolbox)
- Outsourcing Embraced In Europe As Well (ITtoolbox)
- Sea to shining sea (ITtoolbox)
- The China Syndrome (ITtoolbox)
- You Can't Outsource Everything (ITtoolbox)
| Books/discussions/other resources | Return to Table of Contents |
- Best SAP CRM self-training techniques? (SearchSAP.com)
- Becoming an SAP Consultant (ITtoolbox)
- Teach Yourself SAP R/3 in 24 Hours (ITtoolbox)
- Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse (Amazon)
- Administering R/3: The production and planning module (Amazon)
- SAP BW Professional (Amazon)
- Workflow for SAP -- Effective Business Processes using SAP's WebFlow Engine (Amazon)
- Implementing SAP with an ASAP methodology focus (Amazon)
- The SAP Consultant Handbook (Amazon)
- SAP Career Discussion Forum (ITtoolbox)
- Blog> Viewpoint of an IT Recruiter: Career Advancement & Job Search Tips (ITtoolbox)
- Are ERP Positions Immune From the Technology Downturn? (ITtoolbox)
- Career Planning: It's all about attitude! (ITtoolbox)
- Hiring in a Down Economy (ITtoolbox)
- IT salaries hold their own (ITtoolbox)
- Careers at SAP in the United States (SAP)
- The Big Payoff: CertMag's 2004 Salary Survey (ITtoolbox)
- 2003 ITtoolbox Outsourcing Survey (ITtoolbox)
- 2003 ITtoolbox Salary Survey (ITtoolbox)
- 2004 ITtoolbox Hiring Survey (ITtoolbox)
- 2004 ITtoolbox Salary Survey (ITtoolbox)
| More Learning Guides | Return to Table of Contents |
* Don't miss our companion guide -- SAP Job Seeker's Learning Guide *
- Learning Guide>SAP Certification Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Learning Guide>Application Security Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Learning Guide>SAP CRM Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- ERP guide for the midmarket (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Security Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Job Seeker's Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP NetWeaver Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP BW Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Business Intelligence (BI) Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP HR Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP XI Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP RFID Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- BAPI Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Basis Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Learning Guide for Sales Effectiveness (SearchCRM.com)
- Wireless Learning Guide (SearchMobileComputing.com)
- Learning Guide for Marketing Effectiveness (SearchCRM.com)
- XML Learning Guide (SearchWebServices.com)
- Linux basics for Windows pros (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
This was first published in June 2005
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