XI Career Path..

Hi XI Guru's
I need a advice from SAP XI Guru's.
I have around 2 years of SAP XI experience and would like to know going forward what can be the career paths for SAP XI Consultants.
Thanks..

Hi Snehal,
If you want to grow into the EAI domain, you can consider picking up other middleware technologies like Tibco, Biztalk etc. Else, if you want to continue with SAP domain, you can go for Portals, BI, MDM and slowly move toward Enterprise SOA.
See an SAP centric discussion here - [SAP Consulting Market Outlook in 2008|http://www.riyaz.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/28/sap-consulting-market-outlook-in-2008/].
Regards,
Riyaz

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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.)
You've moved to Southern California, which is chock full of companies using SAP, by the way, and you're having a hard time finding the right job. Your education is probably going to be problematic at this point. Most SAP related jobs require a Bachelor's Degree at a minimum. Definitely keep on going with your degree. I don't know where you're doing your associate's degree, but you might want to look in to Cal State Fullerton, which has an *excellent* SAP focused business degree program. (http://business.fullerton.edu/).
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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Hi Experts...
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Hi Anupama,
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Hi everyone am a SAPling. My highest academic background is Masters in I.T. I need an expert advice on SAP career path and specific SAP module to take to accomplish this. Presently i am running a training program in CCNA.

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Dear Gurus
respect n regards to you....
I have problem related to "Network Graphics-Display Career Items" Tcode OOQ4.
I have created a career "Management Trainee to Manager HR".
Manager HR
AM HR
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On each position employee have to serve for 3 years. I have done this for each position via "Maintain Duration"
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Dear Gurus
respect n regards to you....
I have problem related to "Network Graphics-Display Career Items" Tcode OOQ4.
I have created a career "Management Trainee to Manager HR".
Manager HR
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On each position employee have to serve for 3 years. I have done this for each position via "Maintain Duration"
My client wants that this duration should display with object beside name of the position/job in "Display Career Items" or when we want to take a print of selected career.
for example, I want each Object in career path should display like below
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3 Years
Kindly help in this...
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I have written an article on IT toolbox which gives folks new to SAP an idea of what a typical career path looks like. It can be found at http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Advice_for_Recent_College_Graduates_(aka_%22Freshers%22).
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Please don't choose your future career based on what random folks tell you the future is in a forum. Regardless of anyone's predictions, the correct choice is the area about which you feel most passionate. Neither HR nor FI are going away any time soon, so your passion for one topic or the other will drive you to learn more and become a vital part of any company you join. Passion is the key.
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Edited by: 978321 on Dec 21, 2012 5:00 PM

Hello,
As the other guys have pointed out, it's difficult to get the experience when no one wants to hire someone without experience. Did you do a work placement year at university? If so, that's valuable experience if it's related to IT. You could use that to get a job in a related field. If not, no worries, you can find other ways....
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It might not be the best paid position but the experience you gain will be valuable. You'll probably work very closely with the developers as well. Along a similar note, there are differences in the DBA role. Some roles are called [url http://www.ora00600.com/articles/development-and-production-oracle-dbas.html]Production DBA and others Developer DBAs.
Have a read through of these [url http://www.ora00600.com/articles/oracle-dba-article-list.html]Oracle DBA articles which should give you a little more information on the subject about [url http://www.ora00600.com/articles/what-does-an-oracledba-do.html]what an Oracle DBA does.
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Edited by: Rob_J on Dec 28, 2012 9:38 AM

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