SAP certification for a recent grad  I'm a new fresh graduate in
Management of IT. I would like to attend a seminar in SAP
Procurement and Materials Handling on my campus. I'm interested
in learning SAP. But the course fee and certification is quite
expensive for a student like me. How coud I learn the basic
materials by myself? How valuable is an SAP certificate? Will it
make it easier to get a job? I like your initiative looking into
SAP even as you graduate. And you are right to be skeptical of
certifications in terms of the financial cost. Recent graduates
have to watch expenses carefully. Under no circumstances should
you put an SAP certification course on a credit card, for
example, like one student I heard from did. If you go into the
careers section of SearchSAP and look through the jobs, you'll
see that certification is just not required for many SAP jobs.
The key is quality hands-on experience, which of course is not
easy to get when you are trying to break into the field. True,
certification may he