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.”

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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…

By Clinton Jones

Your BASIS administrators will tell you that your SAP system is idling along with 10% system utilization and plenty of memory and few or no system locks. So why are your users complaining that their batch upload processes are taking so long or that that form is taking too long to respond?

The answer isn’t a simple one. There are many factors that influence overall system response time and the length of time it takes to complete a load. Here are a couple of areas that you should consider with respect to your environment and some areas you may want to discuss with your IT support teams to ensure Winshuttle users have an optimized experience.

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We all know that SAP systems can save a businesses a lot of time and money. However, if systems are not implemented properly it can cause a lot of problems, including reputation damage, financial losses and inter-departmental mix ups. In some cases, badly set up systems can be more of a hinderance than a help.
If you’re looking at using ERP systems such as SAP in your business, it can be a bit of a daunting task. Knowing what kind of system will suit you best, which modules will be most cost effective and efficient, the projected budget and the implementation timescale are all vital to integrating the system smoothly.
Failure to take proper care of any of these variables can result in a lot of hassle and potential lost revenue.  For this reason you really should consult a professional SAP company that will have the experience of setting these systems up, if only to seek advice.

So there are lots of questions when considering SAP systems. If you’re looking for some tips and points to consider when looking at these integrated systems, try GuruOnline.

We would like to introduce to you a new GRC Suite that may be of interest to you:

The Security Compliance Suite is an SAP-centric application used to manage system compliance, provision temporary authorization for system support, and to manage permanent authorization change requests. The solution includes best practices SOD rule set. It can be initially configured in your system for evaluation purposes in less than 90 minutes.

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Managing the consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of data in your SAP system is critical to keeping businesses running efficiently and profitably. However, moving critical information in and out of data-intensive SAP transactions is typically time consuming, costly, and error prone. Companies need a convenient, timely, manageable, and  maintainable data entry solution.

“Winshuttle TRANSACTION gives us the ability to do things we weren’t able to do before. We have significantly reduced our manual data entry costs, reduced headcount, and minimized the burden on IT.”

- Paul Cahill, Director of Information Technology, Hubbell Wiring Systems

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