need some SAP career advice.. can anyone help?

[dmodele]

I worked at Harvard University at a job thats more or less like SAP Basis Admin. I want to learn SAP and move away from the nonprofit scene. Unfortunately, the system I learned at Harvard is only used there. My plan is to get certified in SAP Basis Admin and move all of my experience to more lucrative platform. I have a couple questions that I hope someone here could answer:

- Should I learn SAP/Unix? or for windows? I wonder.. what is the most common? What should I start with?

- How do I find companies that use SAP? I know for example that Reebok near Boston (where I live) uses it.. but thats about it. Should I contact an SAP recuiter?

Basically, Im sick of learning all this complex stuff thats only applicable in Harvard because they are a nonprofit that uses the most outdated and ridicules software. I have some great experience in interfacing their old systems and making them work.. I used Perl, Excel, Access via ODBC, SQL queries, etc to comb the database and remove corrupt records and tune performance, etc. I know I can apply this to a Basis Admin job, but I need to know what to study and where to enter. Please, Ive been following this forum for a while and I know you guys really know your stuff.. what should I do? How should I go about this? Is my plan of get certified and starting out, using my parallel Harvard experience, going to work? Please, any help will be appreciated greatly!

 

[mukimball]

How about you take this route.

1.) Go to monster.com and see who is hiring and for what, then structure your learning towards the job marker.
--> I would guess you will find UNIX to be the flavor of choice.

2.) Try going to a SAP user conference or simply search job postings to find the companies in the SAP areas.

Hope it helped..
Dave
SAP Basis Admin. OMX