Question Re: Forum for SAP career in Questions about SAP Websites

Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:58:56 GMT

Hi,

There is no place in SDN specific for Career specific discussion. As a Results SAP consultants tend to diverge to other portals for advice and suggestions.

Donu2019t you think we need such a forum where we can have all discussion on career related concerns, issues and aspirations.

Its best to have such sensitive and most concerned issues to be answered by SAP Councilorsu2019 one on one.

P.S: Mod I have asked the same Ques at Coffee conner. I am not sure which will be a better place to ask so raise at both . But both have different audience so I think both forums will have different views.

Re: Forum for SAP career

matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:26:27 GMT

This is the correct forum. As you divined - the coffee corner is likely to attract more frivolous answers...

matt

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:41:38 GMT

Hi,

and as long as you are not asking us what you should do next (i. e. which area of sap to move to) your are very welcome to ask and discuss.

Siggi

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:08:22 GMT

Thanks for your willingness to help....

I would like to shot lots of Ques provided mentors are not bugged by stupidity of Questions. Because most of them would have obvious answers. Though someone like me who started career couple of years back it is less then obvious and I may not even have vague idea.

They are as follows:

What is the scope of a Technical Consultant to get into Business side of SAP services?

Such as Marketing, Product Management, Services Management, Solution Architect... etc.

It may sound as a general management Quest. But in SAP it is different cause SAP has lots of Technical Products. So to do its business you need to know the technology.

So please let us know expected profile of a consultant holding the above position along with their exposure needed in technical side of the SAP.

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:53:30 GMT

See no body volunteering to answer the question now.

Thats why a dedicated forum would be a lot more benifitail.

It not that hard to understand.

Thanks ,

Hussain

Re: Forum for SAP career

jurjen_heeck — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:34:39 GMT

> See no body volunteering to answer the question now.

Almost broke the sules here, but since there's no question mark I suppose it's within limits. Forum rules are quite clear on how posters are not entitled to answers. As you rightly pointed out, its voluntairy.

> Thats why a dedicated forum would be a lot more benifitail.

Please explain that a bit further, it does not make sense to me how a separate forum would help to get a question answered which is not answered here?

> It not that hard to understand.

It's lines like the above that will stop people answering you questions

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:07:10 GMT

Hi,

in my last answer I mentioned that we will be happy to discuss things as long as you don't want us to suggest what you should do for your own personal career, as this is something that you by yourself have to decide. But guess what: Your question was likely exactly one of those dozens of questions of people who want us to give them a direction which way to go. It was just asked in a slightly different way. And I think that is why you didn't get an answer.

Siggi

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:54:22 GMT


> Please explain that a bit further, it does not make sense to me how a separate forum would help to get a question answered which is not answered here?

Guilty of plagiarism of my thoughts

Re: Forum for SAP career

jurjen_heeck — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:41:56 GMT

> Guilty of plagiarism of my thoughts

I'll happily be ashamed of myself

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:12:27 GMT

>Please explain that a bit further, it does not make sense to me how a separate forum would help to >get a question answered which is not answered here?

This is how it goes. Being a dedicated forum for career, people will look towards it for clarification of droughts in career.

As such people them selves are going to come together, and going thought the same phase, they too will willingly help others with what ever research they have done or knowledge they have.

Also it will attract many other mentors and experts who are expert in this career counseling .

Well about My Questions I don't think its personal Its very much general cause they are the first thoughts that will come to mind of a technical Consultant in SAP if he is looking to broaden his career prospects.

If aspiration of all such technical consultants is too specific. Then let it be answered by a specific answer. I assure you there are lot new comers in SAP who don't know how to go about it and arenot willing to wait. Cause now we don't believe in wait and watch, not at least in career. We need to crate opportunities and not wait for it.

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:24:13 GMT

... that still doesnt answer why you need a seperate forum for that. Why not here? People do ask these career-counselling-type-questions in the buckets and those who are interested in answering, do tend to answer, the others just ignore it. You will observe the same phenomenon if a new forum is created for the purpose.

There have been many discussions on similar issues (you can do a search on it) and till date there has been no official word on it from any of the SAP employees, which could either mean they are right now non-commital or something is cooking.

But either way, such discussions have been widely broadcasted here and in CC, meaning SAP is aware of it. So for the time being its just better to wait-and-watch.

Re: Forum for SAP career

jurjen_heeck — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:36:57 GMT

> Being a dedicated forum for career, people will look towards it for clarification of droughts in career.

Point taken.

It would however (among a lot of other forums) one that I would ignore. The career threads here or in the CC sometimes take interesting turns and do catch my attention.....

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:05:52 GMT

Anyways things seem hard to change out here.

So Thanks all of you for your valuble input.

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:11:35 GMT

Hi,

This is one place https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/ua-career

Regards

Ayyapparaj

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:35:47 GMT


> Hi,
> 
> This is one place https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/ua-career
> 
> Regards
> Ayyapparaj

Good to see this initiative from SCN

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:30:18 GMT

Its was a general discussion ... and now we have a career center on SDN..

So that answers my question

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:09:57 GMT

On hindsight, it was a good idea after all, to have a separate Career Center forum.

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:17:12 GMT

Hi Hussain,

You had it in your mind for a long time and waiting to reply to this thread.

Anyway something good has happened.

~Andrew

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:25:30 GMT

November 13, 2008

Auwwwhh... I love the smell of flamewars in the morning...

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Forum for SAP career

Former Member — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:51:16 GMT

...got it

initially thought of 'kindling some flame' to warm up the coffee corner in this cold winter morning

but alas noticed

November 13, 2008

and kept low

~Andrew