EDUCATION

Career opportunities improve for Sri Lankan IT professionals

Choosing a career these days requires much careful thought and research. One wants to be sure one is entering a field with a secure future, but many such careers involve several years of training before one can even think of getting hired. If one doesn't have that much time and money to invest, but wants a lucrative career that will support an enjoyable lifestyle, SAP is indeed worth taking a look at. For many career seekers, SAP has appeared as a bright spot in a sometimes bleak job market.

Over the years, SAP has developed a curriculum of courses that aim to educate IT professionals about their products and modules and enhance their employability.

The globally recognized certification programmes in SAP have expanded to include associates, professionals and expertise of master level for the training. This is a foundation knowledge must required by a SAP consultant. It also includes the tests to verify whether the SAP consultants possess a deeper understanding of SAP solutions, knowledge and skills, or not. Professional certification is directly related with proven project experience, business process knowledge and, needless to mention, a deeper understanding of SAP solutions. At the level of Master Certification, having a wide knowledge of SAP project experience is required. Also, the requirement of an ability to make use of this knowledge in creation of future IT vision is must. The programme consists of process oriented practical questions that are specific to a particular software release. With SAP, students are also examined for their practical job experience.

It is not an exaggeration to say that being a part of SAP training means being a part of one of the most successful enterprises across the globe or being a recognized market leader. Education in SAP lets one feel being challenged like never before, growing, succeeding and ready to take risks. The day one starts working as SAP professional is the day one starts contributing greatly to make one's customers' businesses the best-run businesses in the world. The scope of SAP is vast and the market for the SAP jobs has been very active because a huge SAP talents shortfall is predicted by the market experts. For SAP professionals, there are a greater opportunities lying ahead. SAP professionals are getting premium packages over the general IT professionals these days and the reason being that companies are finding it difficult to get the right expertise to take care of their SAP projects.