Career prospects in SAP SD

Hi, after a long and tiring career of around 12 years in teaching as associate professor, I'm thinking of taking up more challenging careers in industry. I'm considering doing SAP SD and I'm worried about career prospects. Would anyone advise me if I'm correct in this kind of thinking...i.e., doing SAP at this age and time, would it be like risking or OK for me to move ahead? What things should I keep in mind in selection of course, institute etc for doing SAP. Pl. advise keeping my profile in picture.

Hi Sandeep,
I would like to give you some brief of SAP job market in India. It will help you to do further analysis and take a decision.
For a job as an SAP SD consultant, the requirments are 2 yrs(minimum) of domain (sales) experience and some good (may be 3 yrs of hands on with SAP SD.
The domain exp part is not important if you are applying as a fresher (the fresher needs to be SAP certified , else no chance in India)
Am afraid, your teaching exp, even if its in marketing or sales, may not be considered (even financial product sales/ or sales in banking industry is not attractive here).
Coming to hand on exp in SAP, its very important to have it may be as a trainee, some project work, end user etc..
So now, you can analyse the situation and decide on what you have to do. Age may not be a constraint in this field, but you have to consider how much time, money and efort u can spend.
Regards
Jobi

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