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If you don’t have a LinkedIn account yet, you may want to consider creating one and start Networking. In case you are already on LinkedIn, you may want to learn how to make the best out of your LinkedIn membership. Social Networking is essential, especially in the SAP Consulting business and often times it seems, if you are not on LinkedIn or similar professional networks, you don’t exist!

I am using LinkedIn as it has about 135 million users and it targets business professionals. It became my primary Professional Social Network as it has brought me back together with many people I have worked in the past and also generated new business opportunities. With LinkedIn I am on the know who is hiring, when someone of my contacts is promoted, change jobs. I am even able to give and receive recommandations. You may even find out what company is starting a new SAP project when they start to hire SAP Professionals.

LinkedIn helps you find valuable people and informs you of the mutual connections you have with them

If you are a business professional and you do not have a powerful presence on LinkedIn, you are undoubtedly missing valuable opportunities to connect and grow your business. For me, as I mentioned before, LinkedIn helped me to grow my own business. As your success is important to me, I spent some time to research and found a few complementary publications that can help you as well to make the best out of your LinkedIn membership.

Plese feel free to download the free publications below – Not sure how long these will be available for download, so download the ones you are interested in today!

 How to Build a Powerful Business Presence on LinkedIn
In HubSpot’s newest eBook, Learning LinkedIn from the Experts, five LinkedIn specialists provide key insight into how you can use LinkedIn to successfully grow your network and business.

I’m on LinkedIn–Now What???
With over 25 million members there is a lot of potential to find and develop relationships to help in your business and personal life, but many professionals find themselves wondering what to do once they signup. Learn the different benefits of the system and best practices so that you can get the most out of LinkedIn.

Learn LinkedIn: How to Build your Living Resume
In this manual, you will see how to set yourself up on LinkedIn (if you haven’t already), establish your account, and develop your “living resume” in an easy step by step process. This manual will also go over the must-know tips and information to ensure you don’t make any mistakes and will provide some new tricks for the more seasoned LinkedIn user. Also with this manual you will receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free, courtesy of MakeUseOf.

30 Minutes to Maximizing LinkedIn
As the leading author and speaker on LinkedIn for business and professional networking, Neal Schaffer often gets asked for beginner tips to help people get started and find real value in using LinkedIn. While he can’t offer as much help here as he could by your reading his two books, he did want to offer a quick summary to help ensure that you don’t miss out on what LinkedIn has to offer and get started (or restarted) – in a 30 minute read.

Click here for more free publications!

We have partnered with PKR Beheer, a  privately-held Dutch company committed to helping SAP customers work better with their SAP business systems. One of their best selling training programs is a practical, hands-on training system to accelerate your learning, designed by SAP specialists who already have helped thousands of users to maximize their effectiveness with SAP software since 1997.

Starter Training for SAP® Software is an invaluable tool because it includes up-to-the-minute techniques for easy handling of SAP software screens and transactions. You’re practicing with simulated screens as they would look like when utilizing the latest version of SAP software, SAP ECC 6.0. Whether you’re a beginning user wishing to brush up on more efficient methods and shortcuts to make your job easier, or a candidate needing exposure to SAP screens and transactions for your next job, Starter Training for SAP® Software is the perfect training vehicle for you. continue reading…

It has been a very long time since our last post. We have been very busy with our SAP Consulting work and also are working on new partnerships with companies that offer great services & products for increasing the productivity of SAP Professionals.

We will update our blog with news as soon as we have evaluated & validated these products & services. Please stay tuned and also give us some feedback on posts, products & services you are looking for. We are also interested in authors who want to contribute to this blog and get your name out.

For now, we are presenting a few new services & products we have added to our portfolio:

Starter Training for SAP® Software (Online Version)

Starter Training for SAP® Software is an invaluable tool because it includes up-to-the-minute techniques for easy handling of SAP software screens and transactions. You’re practicing with simulated screens as they would look like when utilizing the latest version of SAP software, SAP ECC 6.0. Whether you’re a beginning user wishing to brush up on more efficient methods and shortcuts to make your job easier, or a candidate needing exposure to SAP screens and transactions for your next job, Starter Training for SAP® Software is the perfect training vehicle for you.

We will post more details about this $67.00 training class. For now, please visit the product information page.

VPN Software

You may be working in a project in a country where you don’t have the freedom of visiting your favorite websites or simply want to watch a sports game or News from your home country, but due to copyright issues, content may be censored (Yes, this can happen even if you live in the USA and want to watch News or Sports events available online THERE but not HERE!)

We found a couple of  products for starters that may be of interest to you:

SwissVPN

VPNSwiss PRO CH & USA : Pricing is in EUROS

- 100% anonymous surfing – increased security against hacking
- 100% uncensored access to internet content (e.g. web TV, Youtube, facebook, adult content sites, online poker)
- maximum security for public WiFi networks against: Man in the middle attacks, DNS spoofing attacks and more
- unlimited bandwidth and traffic volume
- Zurich based servers
- maximum security for online eBanking (256bit encryption)
- and a fully automatic installation for Windows and Mac OSX (Installer) !

 First Month will be free until further notice!

Below a few licenses.

VPNSwiss PRO CH & USA
Windows Version (10.00 Euros/Month)
MAC OSx Version (10.00 Euros/Month)

VPN Easy Versions: (one country)
Easy Swiss – (5.00/Month)
Easy US -   (5.00/Month)

Yearly

Easy Swiss -  (50.00/Year)
Easy US -  (50.00/Year)

HappyVPN

Is your Internet access restricted in any way? Are you living or traveling to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE, China, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait?

Happy VPN is a place where you can buy a VPN subscription and start accessing Internet in any way you like. Unlock Skype, bypass internet provider or government restrictions. All this in complete   anonymity, using a US – based IP.
We supply the anonymous IP adress and the best customer service.

You gain access to our virtual private network. We teach you how   to set it up, in less than 5( five) minutes!

Monthly Happy VPN plan

Biannual Dedicated IP Happy VPN plan $124.99 / 6 months

Biannual German Happy VPN plan

Beth Braccio Hering, Special to CareerBuilder

We’ve all heard that whom you know is just as important as what you know. But what can you do when you’ve exhausted your inner circle and still don’t have a job?

Branch out even farther. “If your immediate friends could help you, they absolutely would have already,” says Caroline Ceniza-Levine, co-author of “How the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times” and partner at the career-coaching firm SixFigureStart in New York City.

Although seeking out and introducing yourself to friends of friends, acquaintances of colleagues or even complete strangers who might be potential job leads can seem daunting, the payoff can be worth the effort. Here, experts give tips on making the process more natural — and hopefully more profitable.

Meeting new people
To meet friends of friends or acquaintances of colleagues, Janet Civitelli, workplace psychologist at VocationVillage.com, recommends asking people you know to invite you to events where all of you can connect. If that isn’t possible, she suggests asking your friend or colleague if he can introduce you with an email or telephone call. “Help smooth the way by mentioning to the people you know what they can say about you and why you want to connect. For example, your friend or colleague could say, ‘Tracy, I’d like you to meet Frank. Frank is a product marketing manager who just moved to Los Angeles from Boston. He has a great background in working with software startups.’” continue reading…

Alina Dizik, Special to CareerBuilder

If you didn’t have the best working relationship with your previous manager, deciding whether to list him as a job reference can be tough. It’s especially difficult because “former bosses are generally the first reference employers look for from job applicants,” says Chris Posti, president of outplacement firm Posti & Associates. “If you don’t provide your former boss as a reference, it will cause concern, unless you can give a solid explanation.” Since reference checks are often one of the last steps to getting hired, it’s even more important to not raise any red flags.

Not sure whether to list your former boss? Here, human resources experts weigh in on what to do if you think you’ll get a less continue reading…

By Careerbuilder.com

To a painter, an untouched canvas holds unlimited possibility for a bold new creation. But for each artist, the potential for something great is counterweighed by the potential for unparalleled failure.

Similarly, excitement and anxiety loom over job interviews. When you present yourself to an employer, you hope all the right words come out and you woo them. You only practice the perfect responses to questions, never the wrong answers. But in the back of your mind you know that you might end up sounding like a terrible candidate who no employer will ever hire, even if you’re actually the perfect person for the job.

For a job seeker, the blank canvas is the open-ended question. When the right answer requires more than a yes or a no, job seekers need to take advantage of the freedom they have with their responses, not fear it. But perhaps no question intimidates job seekers more than “So, tell me a little about yourself.”

You have many ways to answer, and the best response might depend on the stage of your career. continue reading…

by Simon Kirrage

How many times have you been asked by SAP recruiters “do you know anyone?” If you give a name, that person will get bombarded with emails and if you don’t, they will never know about the jobs that suit them, so you can either let your friend down or hand them to frenzied agents to chase. After all, give a consultants name to a non reputable agent and they will probably never speak with you again!

Agents ask because they have a bad combination going on – too lazy to search and too mean to pay – harsh but true. Consider contacting an agent and asking continue reading…