SAP AG, its partners, and its customers create thousands of jobs each year. SAP career path is very rewarding and challenging. However finding a right opportunity could be a difficult task specially if you are new to SAP world. Managing your SAP career is important.

If you have done your SAP homework and are now to enter SAP job market then it is a good idea to start with your current employer. As you know there are more than 100,000+ SAP installations worldwide. There is a good chance that your current employer is a SAP customer. It is important that you do some due diligence before assuming that your employer is not a SAP customer.Even if your employer is not a SAP customer then next find out if your employer is a vendor or customer to a company that uses SAP. In that case your employer might have interfaces sending and receiving data with the company that uses SAP. If any of these scenarios are true, then there might be SAP related jobs in your existing company. Check the job board of your company. Also do a search on internet using your company's name in the search criteria.

Popular job search websites are:

• dice.com
• monster.com
• workopolis.com

SAP has about 50,000 employees in more than 50 countries. SAP AG and its subsidiaries create many jobs all around the globe.

You can search SAP's career site at http://www.sap.com/careers/index.epx

Although all of available opportunities may not be technical or functional. Working with SAP in a non-technical and non-functional capacity can still provide valuable exposure to SAP product line. You can eventually work towards your main goal.

SAP partners provide software and services for SAP and SAP customers. There are various small specialty companies as well working as SAP partners providing discrete services.

SAP partners could be categorized as:

• Business Process Outsourcing providers (BPO)
• Channel partners
• Content partners
• Education and training partners
• Hosting and outsourcing partners
• Consulting Services partners
• Software solution partners
• Support partners
• Technology partners

SAP has more than 50,000 customers worldwide. Customer base cover various industries. Broadly these industries could be divided as:

• Financial and Public Services (e.g. Banking, Health care etc)
• Manufacturing (e.g. Automotive, Chemicals etc)
• Service (e.g. Media, Retail etc).

Chances are that there is a company that runs SAP in your city.

When a company implements SAP, it needs a staff to support the software from both perspectives technical and functional.

This might be a great entry point for your career.