XI as Career!!!

Hi! Everybody
As SAP is moving towards new Dimesnion components i am seeking some guidence from you...
I have 1 yrs exp in abap , now i m confussed with should be my next step, which would be better for my future career and growth aspects..whether it should be:
1)XI--as i have abap exp, but dont know abt future prospects of XI and demand in market.
2)EP--as i hve some knowledge of core java, but i dont see enough prjs on EP nd also Java exp candidates already in the market they would be having upper hand.
3)BW--It can be other good option but dont know abt it more...but heard good pay in this field..:)
Please help me in deciding what should be my primary and secondary skill...???
Regards
stan

Hi,
You have Abap and core java , then it will be very easy to learn XI , and to work also , try to concentrate on the ALE - IDoc related and Webservice related , imporve your java skills , coming new XI will have more focus on Enterprise SOA. and completely service oriented ..
So presently huge requirement in XI , be an Expert , sure you will get it.
see the below links
New to XI - /people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/22/new-to-xi
XI Links -- SAP XI Free Documents
/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/25/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-i - Part I
/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/26/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-ii - Part II
/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2006/12/27/aspirant-to-learn-sap-xiyou-won-the-jackpot-if-you-read-this-part-iii - Part III
Regards
Chilla

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I had recently bought a Nokia N91 handset for Rs 28,000, about 3 months back. Within a week, it had to be dispatched to customer care centre due to malfunctioning. I received the phone back after a month. After a month again, it had to be dispatched to Nokia care centre on 5-Sep-2006. The target date for delivery was 5-Oct-2006. In Nokia, it takes minimum 1 month to repair any phone. The complaint number is 2-1JKT61.
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I have to say that my experience of Nokia is just the same and it only adds insult to injury when moderators on here patronisingly lecture to the very customers who pay Nokia employee's wages by buying the handsets.
This is a help forum. People may want help on how to formally complain to or about Nokia. I'm afraid moderators and those fortunatel enough not to have suffered at the hands of Nokia's appalling customer service need to be realistic. Nokia cannot have it both ways; they either take customer service seriously and train/remove the idiots they have on their helpdesk or theyt accept that there will be a backlash.
I have exhausted just about every avenue I can think of to recover a handset I have been without now for the fifth week. See 'Beat this' in the Smartphones forum for more info.
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Career for SAP Strategy management & BPC?

Hi Guys,
Could you please advise me on SAP Strategy management & BPC. How about the future for this?
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Thanks in advance!
Anil.

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Presently I m working in TCS(2007 Passout). recently I hav undergone ABAP training conducted in TCS by SAP Education Services,and now waitiing for related projects here..But as told by HR currently no requirements for ABAPers..and also they will be providing Course attended certificate but dont know when.
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also Some people say Certification wil not matters much for getting jobs
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1.is it necessary to attend certification exam and how should I plan for completing ABAP certification?
2.How well should i plan for my career?
3.Incase if i get project in someother technology in TCS, how i should come back to SAP?
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I will be expecting ur reply and grateful to you for ur suggestions.
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EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_DIRECT_APPL_SERVICE
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What is the best way to build a career path where I can evolve into an SAP role instead of one that is Customer Service based?

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However, after all of the fun I was having while working in SAP and truly gaining a ton of useful experience and knowledge, "life" happened and I had an opportunity to move from Atlanta, GA to southern California. I've searched for months to find a new career here in California with a company that I could continue my learning experiences and become more proficient in SAP, but I'm a little lost. My search to find jobs have only given me possibilities in Customer Service positions or ones that are SAP sales/programming based. I'm floating in limbo and looking for help from the SAP community on where I can go from here to get back into a career path with SAP.
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I appreciate the length and detail of your post. I struggle answering questions from folks who give too little info. It's refreshing to have too much info for a change.
I'll summarize your post and give suggestions:
You have very strong end user experience, almost bordering on support level SD knowledge. You have experience with the way that at least one company implemented SAP SD but don't have many years of experience with different approaches, so you can't pitch yourself as someone who's "been-there, done-that" outside of the SD world and you can't bill yourself as having SD functional knowledge to the extend that you could be a consultant for SAP SD. (See FAQ: Different Career Paths in SAP for descriptions of different traditional SAP career paths.)
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You've found work at a company but had to start over at a lower level of responsibility. Since the job you just landed will be transitioning to SAP in 3 months, you have an opportunity to repeat your previous rise by volunteering to be a super-user again. Alternatively, you could talk to the group within your company and express your desire to help out supporting the system from the back end. Traditionally, companies lose a few folks immediately following an implementation, so there's a good chance that if you make your desires and skills known, that you'll be able to move onto the support team once a position opens up.
All of the above assumes that you want to continue on the functional side of SD. You didn't mention any aptitude or preference for programming. It is certainly easier to get programming jobs than functional jobs (see How did you get your start in SAP?), but it seems like you really enjoyed the functional side of SAP. I do *not* recommend learning an SAP skill for which you have no desire simply to get a job, hoping that you can switch later. Use the skills you have to get the job you really want, doing something that really excites you. It's far to easy to fall into a job simply because it's there and get trapped and burned out.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
--Tom

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Ever since my teens, I've been dabbling in computers.
Learned Dreaweaver 3 with a bible in just over 3 months and made my first website back in 2000.
Since 2005 I've always had a windows server at home ─ it seems like it's not really my home unless it's a domain. I've been sharing coffee daily with ADDS ever since.
I like starting from scratch, designing and building entirely new IT systems (my home is my lab) every other year.
All my hobbies, at some point, got "computerized". For instance I learned everything I could about metadata for media/content files, from the Dublin Core principles to real-world popular DBs schemas (MusicBrainz notably) passing by actual implementations on my system, just because I need my music and video files to be properly sorted and browsed "smartly", you know... Also built a few home audio/video studios setups for friends...
Many people around me come to me for advice on technology, of any kind ─ I like science and tech, always reading up the latest and greatest, and apparently able to research what I have yet to know. I get good feedback on my advice, more often than not.
These are just a few examples of a trend in my life that says "I don't work in IT, but on a daily basis I spend a few hours, often having actual fun, with geeky-IT tasks, even just reading".
I'm extremely thorough by nature. Reading and carefully understanding, checking and applying a Best Practices whitepaper is often a paradoxical treat to me ─ it may be somewhat boring come page 14, but it's just beautiful when a system runs close to perfection, I often find a deep motivation for these ironing-out/optimization tasks. I'm also very practical, down to earth. I love ideas, I get my good share of it, but ultimately what matters to me are actual results ─ though I never rush things unless I have to, I'm infinitely patient with a project. I spend hours designing, testing (seeking real-world proofs-of-concept) so I don't mess up in actual production. I like things neat, sober and efficient, from variables to comments and names passing by external documentation ─ which I highly value, probably stems from my research-oriented mind. I do document my home setups to some degree!
Do these things matter? Do they help me, along with these certifications, or is my professional IT inexperience, at 32, the end of that road?
From what I've read, I'm fairly confident that with the right self-traning, hands on, I have a shot at VCA6-DCV. Practical questions:
I can get a good book, I can get online training, I probably can build a decent lab for virtualization at home. But how can I get hands-on with the software?
Evaluation doesn't seem like an option since it's limited in time.
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Is there any way I can run a non-productive fully-featured VMware ecosystem at home, just for the sake of training? (note: I'm willing to pay for that right, just can't or rather won't afford $2000 licences of course, I'd rather spend that on training classes)
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PS: I apologize for any english mistake, it's not my mother tongue.

Thank you very much for your answer.
I think I do hear you. Assuming I can clear that first step you suggest (get a job supporting a company IT infrastructure, probably at the desktop), then I need to ramp up towards servers and eventually, it's somehow up to me to either help bring VMware to that company, or join another one where VMware is already present. And, as usual in business, ROI/TOC is the sinews of war. I suppose VMware, as a global IT leader, is somehow built on that premise. All of this makes a lot of sense to me. I think it will help me when making future choices. Very practical ideas are already popping up in my head.
I think, for now, I'll focus on
getting that first job in IT infrastructure,
while training for my VCA at home.
Then see from there. Regardless of my job, I can probably keep on self-training towards VCP ─ it never hurts to learn, and ultimately it may help me make the best out of a required class training.
Just a follow-up question, specifically about VMware and security. I'm digging this way because, thinking of your suggestions, here's one aspect of IT in particular that seems a very good bet to me. Here's the context in France (and several european countries):
Studies show that small and medium-sized french businesses (SMBs, up to 250 employees) have mostly missed the digital revolution of the last decade or so. The root causes go deep, as there are about 100,000 IT jobs available in France because of a lack of skilled workers, and the general population shows very poor technological culture overall. Thus, there's a lot to do in the backend to ease that necessary transition (cue for newcomers like me, willing to enter this market, I suppose).
More specifically, there is a huge need for security, which is, too often here, nowhere near acceptable standards. It would be easy to blame IT departments, but they in turn blame their CEOs for not understanding the issue ─ whose main reasons for negliging security are often misconstrued or outdated perceptions: increased cost, tediousness of the end-user experience; but more often than not, it's just blatant unawareness of the risks.
I think VMware delivers very good solutions to this issue.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that virtualization brings a layer of abstraction that makes it inherently superior, from a security perspective, to physical equivalents. And I think it's obvious the end-user experience, should it be different, is better virtualized than not. Therefore ─ you see where I'm going with this: if I had to show a company how VMware is interesting, not only for saving costs or ease of management/deployment, but above all in terms of security, what would be the main selling points, specifically? Also when training myself, which products, which specific designs or implementations or features, in the vast VMware ecosystem, are key to security if I want to bring that to my company? I'd like to have my eyes on that from the beginning. Basically knowing what to say when, one fine day, a manager/recruiter asks me: "how would using VMware be better for our security?" or "how will sponsoring you for VCP-DCV help us in this regard"? (again, rather from a small or medium-sized business perspective)
I'm thinking SSO, vShield and vSECR from the top of my head, but I confess the whole set of VMware server products and features is still a bit overwhelming to me. Obviously I'll do the bulk of research myself, I just need a few pointers.
Thanks again for the inspiration and support!

Career Help Needed for me and my wife..your suggestion would surely help!

Hi Guys,
I would really appreciate if you can solve our mid career Dilemma. Me and my wife both want to get in to SAP..Kindly suggest which module should we pick..
My Wife's Profile: She is an Economics honors graduate and an MBA too. she has got 7 years banking exp in two of the biggest Pvt sector Banks in India. Kindly Suggest which module would be in line with her domain Experience, she wants to get in to the functional side of SAP using the domain knowledge..
My Profile: I am a Science graduate and MCSE, have got 7 yrs exp in Sales and Business Development, should I opt for SD, CRM or HR? Though I am more keen on SD or CRM, but I mentioned HR as I have been doing Business development in staffing industry for the last 4 yrs now..
I am sure I would get the best advise in here..Also, do let us know the future prospects it will/may add..
Look forward to your suggestions..
Thanks!
Rohit
Edited by: Rohitgulati on Feb 7, 2012 9:11 PM

Hi Leon,
Thanks for your quick revert, but just wondering if Banking domain is good for FI/Co, as I guess it has more to do with Finance and not Retail Banking, I in the mean time searched another Module for Banking Industry called IS- Banking..I think, this module will be in line with the Banking Exp but whats the demand of this module in Banking sector that has to be seen!!
Thanks for your help!
Rohit

I want to make a copy of slide show create from my own photographs and with a an audio track behind them. I have carefully followed the iDVD tutorials and burnt the result to a disc but image quality is very poor. What is wrong?

I want to make a DVD of a slide-show with an audio track behind the photographs. I have carefully followed the iDVD video tutorials but the result is far from satisfactory. The quality of the images on the resulting DVD are blurred and indistict although the original photographs are of a very high quality. Where am I going wrong? Would I have better results from a different program than the inbuilt iDVD and if so so what programs have others found to be better? I should be grateful for some expert guidance.

Hey Falcopebo,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Looks like you have image quality issues when using iDVD to burn.
iDVD 7.0: Burned DVD has interlacing, pixelation, or image quality issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4078
A standard DVD made by iDVD is made to the standard DVD resolution of 720 X 480, which is smaller than most HDTVs and monitors. When expanded to fit the entire screen or monitor, the image will distort slightly due to upscaling to fit the screen or monitor.
Have a nice day,
Mario

What's the power of spending more time every day in your IT career ?

What's the power of spending more time every day in your IT career ?
When you do the research to find the factors of the successful people, you'll find that they ALWAYS spent a lot of time every day in their businesses.
The IT technologies change so fast and explode. The performance of IT people with 20 years experiences can be EASILY catched up by a IT people, maybe you, who has only 6 or 7 years or even less if you spend over 80 hours or even more every week on your job and on the latest technologies.
The reasons are listed below:
1. The out-of-date IT technologies is no use anymore. It's like the out-of-date IT books. The people with 20 years experience can't rely on his last experience any more.
2. If you spend 80 hours every week, you'll absorb doubled the knowledge and experience than the people who spends only 40 hours every week. You may catch up with him who has 20 years experiences with your 10 years experiences. Not only this, most of your knowledge and experiences are newer and useful than his.
3. Because you spend 80 hours, you have plenty of time to focus on your tasks. When the task comes in, you may finish your tasks many times faster than him and you may be the only person who still has the time to do any extra or urgent tasks. Because you have more time, you may prepare your next task to be ready to finish your next task even faster and you may absorb the latest IT technologies from a learner level to an expert level while other people is still doing his tasks. And due to your more spare time to learn the technologies all the time needed to do your task, you have much more knowledge needed to do your task and can finish your task much faster than others.
According to my experience, if the comparison of the knowledge the worker has is 1 to 5, the real hours needed to finish a task may be 1 to 10. In IT field, if you know how to do it, you need minutes, but if you don't know how to do it, you need months to do the error-try or starting to learn it and do it. Please notice that the knowledge can be used for many times and the 1 to 5 and 1 to 10 comparisons will repeat again and again. Without spending more time on getting more knowledge, the comparison of 1 to 10 is still happening.
4. Like trying to save the money, most of his 40 hours will be spent on his tasks. He may have only 5 hours left to learn new IT technologies. If you still need to spend the same time to finish your tasks like him, you still will have 45 hours to learn new technologies. You grow 9 times, 5 hours to 45 hours, faster than him. If you keep working and learning the new IT technologies 80 hours every week, you'll find that you'll need much less than 35 hours like him, you may have 60 or even more hours every week to do more tasks to get more experiences and to learn more latest technologies.
----- Someone asked me after read the above "You're absolutely right, but, what motivation can make people do that ?". I told him that "Don't ask me. Ask your boss" -----

1) LabVIEW is a graphical based programming environment and
LabWindows/CVI is a C based programming environment. Both can be used
for similar tasks. Users familiar with C may prefer CVI. LabVIEW is
typically easier to learn if you are unfamiliar with both.
2)
The Run-Time Engine is a separate component that can be installed to
execute LabWindows/CVI programs and LabVIEW programs. It is free of
charge for both LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI.
3)
LabWindows/CVI does not convert any LabVIEW programs into C code.
LabVIEW programs are already compiled as you write them, so you won't
need to convert them to C to use them. You should see similar
performance in similar LabVIEW and CVI code.
Allen P.
NI

Error while saving skills in Career and Job Subarea regd ESS

HI Experts,
I am workin with ESS and it is configured.
There is an error while saving the SKILLS in Career and Job I am getting an error
Important primary table entries are missing in table OBJS -> no tran, error
I am pure portal guy and no idea on Backend tables
Any solutionsfor this issue will be awarded
Thanks
Mayu

HI all
This si the actual error I am getting
com.sap.tc.webdynpro.modelimpl.dynamicrfc.WDDynamicRFCExecuteException:      Important primary table entries are missing in table OBJS -> no tran, error key: RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.modelimpl.dynamicrfc.DynamicRFCModelClassExecutable.execute(DynamicRFCModelClassExecutable.java:101)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.FcSklBusinessLogic.saveProfile(FcSklBusinessLogic.java:240)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.wdp.InternalFcSklBusinessLogic.saveProfile(InternalFcSklBusinessLogic.java:715)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.FcSklBusinessLogicInterface.saveProfile(FcSklBusinessLogicInterface.java:136)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.wdp.InternalFcSklBusinessLogicInterface.saveProfile(InternalFcSklBusinessLogicInterface.java:382)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.wdp.InternalFcSklBusinessLogicInterface$External.saveProfile(InternalFcSklBusinessLogicInterface.java:474)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.review.VcSklReviewNavigation.Save(VcSklReviewNavigation.java:222)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.review.wdp.InternalVcSklReviewNavigation.Save(InternalVcSklReviewNavigation.java:163)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.review.ReviewNavigation.onActiononSave(ReviewNavigation.java:163)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.review.wdp.InternalReviewNavigation.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalReviewNavigation.java:166)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Action.fire(Action.java:67)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.doHandleActionEvent(WindowPhaseModel.java:420)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.processRequest(WindowPhaseModel.java:132)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WebDynproWindow.processRequest(WebDynproWindow.java:335)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.AbstractClient.executeTasks(AbstractClient.java:143)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ApplicationSession.doProcessing(ApplicationSession.java:332)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessingPortal(ClientSession.java:761)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessing(ClientSession.java:696)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doProcessing(ClientSession.java:253)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.RequestManager.doProcessing(RequestManager.java:149)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.core.ApplicationHandle.doProcessing(ApplicationHandle.java:73)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.portal.pb.impl.AbstractApplicationProxy.sendDataAndProcessActionInternal(AbstractApplicationProxy.java:869)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.portal.pb.impl.localwd.LocalApplicationProxy.sendDataAndProcessAction(LocalApplicationProxy.java:77)
     at com.sap.portal.pb.PageBuilder.updateApplications(PageBuilder.java:1356)
     at com.sap.portal.pb.PageBuilder.SendDataAndProcessAction(PageBuilder.java:327)
     at com.sap.portal.pb.PageBuilder$1.doPhase(PageBuilder.java:869)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.processPhaseListener(WindowPhaseModel.java:755)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.doPortalDispatch(WindowPhaseModel.java:717)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WindowPhaseModel.processRequest(WindowPhaseModel.java:136)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WebDynproWindow.processRequest(WebDynproWindow.java:335)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.AbstractClient.executeTasks(AbstractClient.java:143)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ApplicationSession.doProcessing(ApplicationSession.java:332)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessingStandalone(ClientSession.java:741)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessing(ClientSession.java:694)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doProcessing(ClientSession.java:253)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.RequestManager.doProcessing(RequestManager.java:149)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doContent(DispatcherServlet.java:62)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doPost(DispatcherServlet.java:53)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:401)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:266)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:386)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:364)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:1039)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:265)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:175)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
     at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:104)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:176)
Caused by: com.sap.aii.proxy.framework.core.BaseProxyException:      Important primary table entries are missing in table OBJS -> no tran, error key: RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE
     at com.sap.aii.proxy.framework.core.AbstractProxy.send$(AbstractProxy.java:150)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.model.Skills.xss_Skl_Save_Profile(Skills.java:524)
     at com.sap.xss.hr.skl.model.Xss_Skl_Save_Profile_Input.doExecute(Xss_Skl_Save_Profile_Input.java:137)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.modelimpl.dynamicrfc.DynamicRFCModelClassExecutable.execute(DynamicRFCModelClassExecutable.java:92)
     ... 54 more
Please guide me
Thanks
MAyu

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When I click on "Apply Directly" link on Career&Job page, I get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error message. But for example I can run "Skills Profile" link without any problem. So I think this is a customizing issue.
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Thansk a lot!!!
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Eren,
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