Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] In-house training for newly recruited FICO consultants

mardi 13 septembre 2011

Re: [sap-career] In-house training for newly recruited FICO consultants

Posted by sgururaj
on Sep 13 at 1:10 PM

I agree with Mr.Wilhite.
Learning is the 'kick'. (Irrespective of the learning curve). If not learning
in SAP, then everything is just "data entry" in SAP.

Regards,

Sumanth.Gururaj

Consultant/Systems Analyst- SAP SD/MM/CIN

---------------Original Message---------------
From: R. N. Wilhite
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: In-house training for newly recruited FICO consultants

<<<but I am inclined to think they do on-the-job training, where their
clients pay for it.>>>
Roy,

It seems very clear to me, from having worked along side them, that at least
some of the Big consulting firms have practiced this. More over, many
times, I have had people billed as Mid or senior consultants asking me
questions that I'd have been embarrassed to ask as a 2 year man...

Learning on your own is commendable as you say. However, it is not
reasonable to attempt to learn on your own without a real subset of base
knowledge. Being able to spell SAP does not qualify as a real subset.

Often, I have seen consulting firms pair juniors with seniors. When they
are at the same site, this has worked very well. It's not so good if they
are only available via phone or email...

As you implied, no one knows everything. In fact, I have never met anyone
who knew more than, say, 1/10 (more likely, probably 1/100) of SAP. Without
100% knowledge of SAP, no one can be completely independent of the rest of
the world. If you aren't being challenged, then you are only working on
problems that I would give to my juniors for practice... So, everyone
should expect to have to research, until they leave SAP...

Neal

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