Job for Consultant: RE:[sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

lundi 11 juillet 2011

RE:[sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

Posted by Viet_Tran (Business Consultant & Sales Manager)
on Jul 11 at 4:06 PM

Dear Kate_ :

I follow some of correspondence of your case here on this forum. The most recent ones, especially between you and Typewriter, do make one thing clear: your concern about trust into and source of "Good Advice". About ten days ago, another Samaritan here on this forum Mr. R.N. White expresses that "the world out there is unkind and uncaring". And I hope that you agree that the main and decisively ingredients that makes the world an unkind and uncaring place is the humans. Can we draw a conclusion for you yet? Or do we need more and effective information? (I am convinced that you do need additional pieces of information.) And here is one of a good and accessible ways for you to get as follows:

If you would have some more time, I recommend you to step in another forum where you can see another piece of life and human behavior, especially from the ones who are (comparatively) on a much higher hierarchical than where you are at the current time, and see for yourself how they behave in their correspondence. And if you use your observation, you will understand them that they are not saints at all, in many ways, under diverse circumstances etc. The forum is for example "ERP-Project Management" on ITTooBox.Com. (I do participate in this named forum also.)

Read all the lines, between the lines and picture yourself how other people (some of them) who are almost on the top level of "the food-chain" behave in their own case (and their arguments etc.), you will come to a correct imagination. The side effect is that you find confirmation that you state and you would be able to draw a conclusion that will be a good fit for your circumstance, for now and in your professional future.

If you wish any further discussion, please notify.

Regards,

Viet Tran
Master's Degree in Business Administration
Master's Degree in Economics
Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
ERP Consultant
IBM System Programmer and System Analyst
Business Consultant

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Kate_
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: From SAP to Oracle?

Hi Typewriter,
I am not working as consultant - yet.
And I have 10 years experience for numerous reasons.
1) I have spent 5 yrs with SAP in Hungary (part of it while still on the university) and by the time I was thinking of upgrading I decided to move to Ireland instead.
2) I never knew that becoming a consultant "only" required that you applied for a junior consultant position and if you were accepted and worked hard and learned a lot than you could be a "real" consultant within a few years / after a few installations. (of course you have to keep on learning, but that is not the issue here).
3) I was actually surprised to learn, that people with other than IT degrees can do it!

4) 10 years mostly in FICO, but I am really useful with MM SD and PM too at this stage. (ie let me have a desk, a working pc and a user ID and I will do 80 % of any daily admin job within 2-3 days with minimal input from team-mates: tried and tested many times as I was temping for 2 years!)
So, the conclusion for now:
Someone senior in your line of work can supply invaluable advice regarding your career - and the earlier the better.
Word of caution though - trust no-one, especially if they say you are not good enough for some position ever. They might be right or they might be not. They are just people, they might simply not know or they might have interests on their own - and they might not have your best interests on their hearts on top of these (no problem with that, managers are not supposed to be saints - just keep that in mind) so make sure to double-check whatever you are told preferably from an independent source.
I could not get this advice at my current place, but i have figured it out bit by bit during the last year or two. Big thanks to It.Toolbox and good guys here!

Now,

is it clear now?

Cheers,

Kate_

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