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Q. I am a recent graduate holding a Bachelor degree in Computing, and I'm interested in becoming a SAP consultant.
I'm getting the impression that a SAP consulting career is for those non-IT graduates with some years of experience in their respective fields such as finance, sales and production planning. Is this view of mine correct?
Career advice from Roger Olofsson, associate director of executive recruitment agency Robert Walters:
No you don’t need functional experience in a particular field such as finance or logistics to carve out a successful career in SAP consulting. SAP at a broad level is divided into two different streams: technical and functional.
As a Computer graduate you are strongly positioned to enter the SAP consulting realm through the technical stream and I would advise you to scan the market for graduate hiring programs by the large IT consulting firms and other MNCs with large SAP set-ups in this part of the world.
On this track you would probably spend a couple of years doing technical programming work on SAP systems, after which you might decide to continue your career in the technical field up to a senior level or move across to a functional SAP role through getting exposure in a certain business domain.
Starting technical = Always Technical
It is often very difficult for people who start on a technical track to move across to a functional role.
Posted by anonymous on Friday, March 07 2008 11:34 PM