SAP PS Job opportunities in Canada

[Ramya Das]

Hi ,

I am Ramya. I have completed Btech in EEE and i have about 2.5 years of experience. i have completed my SAP in Project Systems ( PS) and i have about 2 yrs of relevant experience.

I am planning to immigrate to Canada and i will write IELTS in Apr or May. i was planning to immigrate and then look for a job there but i want to know hoe are the job opportunities in Canada for SAP PS.

I would really appreciate if someone can help me give me proper advice.
I have been trying to search for some SAP PS jobs but i am not able to find the right website or job portals.

Regards
Ramya

 

[Cdn28]

I'm not familiar with all of your Degree Acronyms - it's likely they just have different names here, however when I just typed in SAP into and then Toronto for the area one of the popular job boards I got over 270 hits. Obviously the more info you can put in here the better, but I'd start just with SAP, so you can ensure you're using the correct Canadian jargon/acronyms to pull back the maximum number of positions. Try these sites:

www.eluta.ca
www.indeed.ca
www.workopolis.com

 

[CharlotteJ]

2 years of relevant experience is really not much! ... You should at least be able to show the Canadian employer 5 years of experience and the more the better and you make more money.

 

[Ramya Das]

thank u guys !!!!

Btech is engineering degree, and EEE is Electrical & Electronics.. i am an Degree holder in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.. and i am now a SAP Project System ( PS) functional consultant. .

IT Profession is not listed in NOC or any job categories so i am worried wethr i will be able to apply for immigration or that wethr i am eligible for applying ??

Regards
Ramya

 

[abelkwh]

Check out the Canadian immigration for skilled worker list, the list is only 26 or 29 NOC occupations now, U have to check it out yrself to see if yr occupation qualify. Some of the computer or comp engineering jobs have been removed. Do check it out for sure.

 

[Ramya Das]

thank u ..

i did check the list and i believe there are no IT jobs listed..

Regards
Ramya

 

[kumbu.bumbu]

There are opportunities in SAP. Not difficult to find the SAP job. Problem is IT jobs are taken of from PR list. Unless you are in Manager capacity it is not now eligible for applying. But I wouldn't stop for that. Just take a free assessment with an attorney of this web site.

 

[newtone]

There are opportunities in SAP. Not difficult to find the SAP job. Problem is IT jobs are taken of from PR list. Unless you are in Manager capacity it is not now eligible for applying. But I wouldn't stop for that. Just take a frees assessment with an attorney of this web site.

Yes there are opportunities for Doctors/Engineers/Architects too but they need Canadian experience. The point is lots of qualified people are doing low level entry jobs

 

[abelkwh]

Why are these new immigrants taking low entry position jobs? ask yrself why! Most of them, though have qualifications of masters degree or bachelors degree or even PHD are useless cause Canada employers usually recognize Canadian qualifications or US degrees only in terms of academic qualifications and with respect to job experience, they would only consider Canadian or some US experience.

Next comes, the language skills and accent of these new immigrants. For those of u, who speak with a local accent from yr home country, its actually fine but it has to be easily comprehensible to Canadians and to be able to get a job, it all really depends on yr ability to speak well with good clear English, better still with Canadian or North American accent, to be completely accepted by the Canadian interviewers. Without most of the above requirements, its definitely not at yr advantage to find a job or compete with one who can fulfill all these requirements.

Further to that, professional jobs, those that are heavily regulated in Canada, such as Engineers, Doctors, Nurses, Bankers etc. U simply just have to get the proper education to qualify for the certification or the professional association recognition to be admitted into the profession. As such, those who are not educated in Canada or North America, in general, will face hurdles in this very first step to accreditation and then not be able to land a job of yr profession or previous profession in yr home country, be it in India or Phillipines or Africa or anywhere in the developing world.

This simply leads many professionals from developing countries, other than those who have completed their degrees in US or Canada to face numerous hurdles and lead them to low entry jobs for survival.

 

[kumbu.bumbu]

Yes there are opportunities for Doctors/Engineers/Architects too but they need Canadian experience. The point is lots of qualified people are doing low level entry jobs

I believe you are non IT guy. IT works differently. Indian experience is better than Canadian experience in IT. US and Canada most IT jobs are done in off shore in India. I worked in New york for 4 years. Go to Margon Stanley, CSFB, DeutscheBank(My former employer) MerrillLynch any major industry more than 50% of IT jobs are held by south asians. As a matter of fact North American experience may be a -ve unless system or business analyst job. Canada is no different. Marketing, Doctor, Engineering, Management and other jobs are different IT jobs are different animal. For IT jobs some one need to be intelligent, hard working. Original Poster being an Indian who are dominating IT jobs will have little difficult in finding a job provided she has sufficient experience.

 

[newtone]

I believe you are non IT guy. IT works differently. Indian experience is better than Canadian experience in IT. US and Canada most IT jobs are done in off shore in India. I worked in New york for 4 years. Go to Margon Stanley, CSFB, DeutscheBank(My former employer) MerrillLynch any major industry more than 50% of IT jobs are held by south asians. As a matter of fact North American experience may be a -ve unless system or business analyst job. Canada is no different. Marketing, Doctor, Engineering, Management and other jobs are different IT jobs are different animal. For IT jobs some one need to be intelligent, hard working. Original Poster being an Indian who are dominating IT jobs will have little difficult in finding a job provided she has sufficient experience.

As you said rightly IT jobs are being outsourced to India, why would a company pay an IT professional who immigrated from India with Indian work experience when the job can be done in India with one fourth the cost. Therefore the company saves money. I am not disputing the fact IT people are not intelligent or hard working, I am just re stating the problems most IT people face here.

 

[Cdn28]

For a lot companies, outsourcing IT to India (or Brazil, which has become popular) is often strictly done as a cost savings exercise. It doesn't have to do with who's smarter, as any IT graduate from Toronto, or Waterloo University would definitely argue this issue. Unfortunately Canadian and US salaries for the same job are payed a fraction of what they're payed here and more more and companies are thinking of how to deliver higher profit margins to their investors and shareholders - it all comes down to how to make more money.

I have seen however, while outsourcing is still occuring, there are a number of other large companies that went this route 5+ years ago and are now bringing the resources back to Canada/US. They discovered it's not just a matter of having someone else with the same skill level do the job from eg) India, but there are a lot of other issues to consider when having a helpdesk is half-way around the world.

There is a bit of a wave occuring with companies bringing back these outsourced IT/Helpdesk/Call Centre facilities. As in any country, we want the jobs here for Canadians and the companies have to balance this against shareholder demands for higher dividends.

 

[kumbu.bumbu]

As you said rightly IT jobs are being outsourced to India, why would a company pay an IT professional who immigrated from India with Indian work experience when the job can be done in India with one fourth the cost. Therefore the company saves money. I am not disputing the fact IT people are not intelligent or hard working, I am just re stating the problems most IT people face here.

I don't know whether that is the mind set or refuse to admit. I have seen several people whose spouses never worked in IT even in home countries found IT jobs here. Check with some one you know works in IT or IT testing.

 

[newtone]

Thats great, we need to hear more from these so called people you know who dont have any experience and got jobs here. I havent come across one in this forum, and even if there is one we need to find more. Cause there arent enough otherwise we would have more people with their success stories in Canada

 

[canyeah_Can]

Not any more sir, I know lot of people , who make $50k in India and these are people with 5 to 8 yrs experience in IT. Infy, ZS,CTS,IBM have around 500K employees and avg salary is about 20k and goes upto 50k.