Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] Go for SAP FICO or Stay with Web Development?

lundi 24 octobre 2011

Re: [sap-career] Go for SAP FICO or Stay with Web Development?

Posted by VidhyaDhar (User-friendly SAP FI Consultant)
on Oct 24 at 11:18 PM

Hi Kal,

Had you mentioned something about your academics and about your work
experience it would have been more helpful, I guess.

The first parameter that I would reckon as important is your answer to the
following question:

*Do you have a strong knowledge of accounts and business related activities
( acquired by virtue of studies and / or by virtue of practical work
experience ) ?
*
*If your answer to the question is NO*, then the general suggestion that I
can offer you is " Why not try to gain more expertise in what you already
know ?" This has more advantages such as

1. Further expertise learning becomes easy and a fun job since you already
know something of the subject
2. Since you are not starting your career from scratch , you do not have to
spend much time toward teething activities involved with learning something
anew.
3. You can plan your job prospects since you may be aware of the related
condition and demand in the job market in your arena of web development and
can prepare yourself accordingly.

Learning SAP without knowing the ground concepts of Business process
activities makes learning a more difficult and a laborious process.
Moreover, please do remember that you will have to compete in the job
market with candidates who are well qualified and experienced in Business
and SAP domain.

I am not sure if your friend considered these factors before suggesting to
your learning SAP and FICO , in particular.

Of course, this is my general opinion. There can be
exceptional people willing to accept challenges, do hard work and
excel in whatever they do and are born fighters even in dire
circumstances. If you belong to that clan, then go on ahead and
learn SAP. But please plan it out and do it in a methodical way (as I
have described below):

*If your answer to the question is YES, *then you could, as a first step ,
refurbish yourself with all business process activities , knowledge of which
might have rusted out a bit owing to your recent (!?) five years' experience
in web development ( which is a different domain, altogether). You could
achieve this by joining a business related job (even if it is not a well
paid one) and gaining practical exposure to all business processes.
Thereafter, you could proceed to learn SAP (FI at first and CO
next........FICO is not treated as a single course curriculum these days).

It is true that the SAP market is good and there is great demand for apt
candidates, especially in FICO. But it is a wiser idea to find if you are
suitable for such a requirement and if not, gear yourself up to it
methodically if you are serious about switching career. I am not
discouraging you, am only pointing out ground reality so that you do
not regret later about your decision.

Wishing you success in all your endeavors.

Regards,

VidhyaDhar

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Kalyan Bondada
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:55 PM
Subject: Go for SAP FICO or Stay with Web Development?

Hey all!

I know this questions has been asked in several ways but still wanted to get a specific opinion on this. So, here goes.. I have more than 5 years of experience in Web Dev and Design, but am not happy and want to learn SAP FICO and move to that field. Am I thinking correct? Or should I stick to Web Development? If it is OK to go ahead with SAP.. is FICO the correct module for me to learn (I was suggested FICO by my friend)?

Thanks,
Kal

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