"How to Get the Job 101" with Dimple Kochikar, B2B Workforce Resource Manager

Dimple Kochikar is very likely a name that is well known to many of our B2B Workforce Consultants. In her 5 years with B2B Dimple has placed over 500 consultants in Oracle, PeopleSoft, EAI/BI, Siebel and SAP career-growth consulting roles. Although she is currently focused in SAP, Dimple's breadth of experience working with many clients and skill-sets over the years makes her an ideal candidate to share some top tips for staying ahead of the competition and landing your next B2B consulting role. Read on for some no-nonsense advice from a seasoned B2B Workforce Resource Manager.

Dimple's tips:

1. One point I consistently make to our Consultants is to not only always have a very clear resume, but to have a couple of versions of it readily available. This is especially important if your skill set reflects a combination of skills. You need to have a resume that highlights each of your specific skills.
   
   
2. You should never put anything on your resume that you do not have hands-on experience with. It can be tempting to list skills that you were exposed to as part of a project team. However, there is a huge difference between "can-do" and "have done." You will be the most successful in getting the position if you are using your resume to simply sell your strengths.

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SAP in the news

Hobby Lobby Turns to SAP to Help Build Its Future: Click here

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New SAP Podcast!

Jon Reed Interviews Thomas Jung of SAP Labs on the Future of SAP Development, Presented by B2B Workforce. "A NetWeaver Project Manager Shares His View on How the SAP Skill Set is Evolving."

SAP development is changing rapidly, and this technical evolution is impacting both technical and functional SAP professionals. To get an inside look at the future of SAP development, Jon interviewed Thomas Jung, NetWeaver Product Manager with SAP Labs and an influential blogger on the SAP Developer Network. Jon asked Thomas about a number of "hot button" topics in the SAP development space, including the innovations of the CE environment and the modeling tools needed for eSOA-driven development, the impact of outsourcing and how to make your skills "outsourcing proof," why ABAP development is alive and well, and how's SAP's SDN and BPX communities are affecting how SAP professionals interact with SAP and enhance their skill sets

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Ask the SAP Career Expert

Q:I am an SAP professional with two years of ABAP experience, currently working as a techno-functional resource in the SAP-SD module for the last 11 months in a maintenance project. I am thinking of shifting into the cProjects domain of ECC, how will it suit my profile?

It will be helpful if you can explain a bit of cProjects's future

JR: This is an excellent question because it gets to the heart of how SAP is repositioning its functionality in the ERP core, perhaps with Enterprise Services in mind.

To get the bottom of where cProjects is headed, I checked in with Brian Trout, SAP Practice Manager with B2B Workforce. Brian explained that cProjects began as a PLM- based function to extend project collaboration around the Engineering Change Management (ECM) function.

Obviously, PLM is a product that is not part of SAP's core "ECC" functions (SAP now considers ECC to be the central ERP functions within the SAP ERP 6.0 release, so the "ECC" lingo is being phased out). PLM is currently one of SAP's Business Suite components. If we were considering cProjects solely as part of PLM, we would be talking about a skill that is tied to a niche SAP product - one that could be very successful, but is never going to have as broad a presence as, say, SAP Financials or even SAP HCM.

But Brian reports that SAP has broadened the use of the cProjects functionality: "Right now, we have a CRM developer on a B2B Workforce project who is helping his client with a Portals-based cProjects initiative that will help their sales team estimate costs against the sales in the pipeline. This is a Java-centric NetWeaver Portals project that involves the use of iViews to present this information to the sales team in a form they can use and consume."

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Oracle in the News

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Health Tip from WebMD

Too Sick to Work?
How sick is too sick to go to work? Advice on when you should just stay home.

By Susan Seliger

What's a good enough reason to call in sick? If you wake up feeling sneezy, sleepy, dopey and grumpy, as if you've turned into nearly all of Snow White's dwarves overnight, you might be wondering whether you should tough it out or just stay home. Here's some advice on how to tell when your symptoms warrant staying at home - or when you have to roll out of bed and get to work.

#1 Good reason to call in sick: You're a danger to others

"You have to ask yourself the key question: Are you a danger to yourself or to others?" says Michael Bagner, MD, attending physician at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital and Medical Director of Roosevelt Hospital Doctors Offices in New York.

If, for example, you have an earache that affects your balance or concentration, you can't do much harm sitting at your computer.

"But for someone who drives a bus or is a pilot, that earache could be very dangerous, for everybody," Bagner explains. Also, if you are taking medication that can make you so groggy as to make it dangerous to perform your routine duties, you should do everyone a favor and stay home.

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