Job Market in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

Can somebody tell me how is the job market in SAP right now...Has it been affected by recession or is it likely to be affected negatively by global recession like other software jobs.

Waiting for your replies eagerly.

Thank you,

Nazim.

Moved to right forum

Edited by: Lakshmipathi on Feb 24, 2009 11:47 AM

[Former Member]

Hi,

>Can somebody tell me how is the job market in SAP right now...

Where ? Do you realise that the world is big and is composed of a lot of different countries having each its own job market ?

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

As far as I can tell, it is bad like everything else. Lots of my consultant friends are either riding the bench or unemployed.

I think Eastern Europe is doing okay.

[former_member194669]

And employers take this as an opportunity to slash billing rate also.

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[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

I was going to ask the same, but searched the forum to look for a similar thread.

In Spain, where I live, the situation is pretty bad in SAP. There are 1/3 the offers that before the crisis. However, depending on the seniority level, it is not that bad. There are no chances of recovery during 2009 as economists say. reards

[Former Member]

Market bad;

demand - flat at current levels for next 12 months at least;

compensation - down and never going back to earlier peaks.

[Former Member]

I would tend to agree with you. I originally predicted in another thread from last year that things will start stabalizing and picking up in May 09 again. I think this happened after the statutory reports of large companies which is what I was waiting for, but don't want to put my name to it. It was just a 2 cents...

I don't doubt that SAP implementations create value if implemented properly, but the implementation process is often quite long... so there is a knock-on effect to the job market once the existing projects end.

Additionally, for existing customers, the roll-ins and consolidations over the past years are in advanced stages and central component systems is a big hit as evidence.

I am pretty sure that activating user-exits is dead... Maintaining them is probably still very alive...

Cheers,

Julius

[matt]

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> I am pretty sure that activating user-exits is dead... Maintaining them is probably still very alive... 
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Maintenance demands a very different mindset from implementation. With implementations, you only have to make sure it works day 1 of go live. ( Or possibly month 1 ). After that - you go onto the next project. With maintenance/support/operations, you have to make sure it's working day 2, 3, 4,... When you're going to be responsible in perhaps two years time, for what you are doing now, you tend to take a bit more care. The "hack it and bung it in, who cares whether it's pretty just make it work" approach suddenly seems to be tremendously short-sighted. And expensive.