NetWeaver Career Strategy
Two step evolution is required
1 - Skills acquisition strategy
2 - Social identity Strategy
Changing Job Market
GFC has caused a shift towards cost reduction
Less employment positions advertised
More focus on careful skill selection
Much more competition for fewer positions
Only the strongest will evolve
Skills 
acquisition 
strategy
Determine your 1-5 year plan
How much hands on content do you want?
Are you Independent Consultant focussed?
Any Management or Team Leader abilities?
The market is looking for specialists not generalists
Assess and prioritise you technical skills portfolio.
Select 1-2 core skills (your focus)
Select 2-3 emerging skills (your edge)
Select 3-4 consulting skills (soft skills) 

Core Skills
core to your career
expert skill level
your bread and butter
Process Integration
Business Warehouse
Enterprise Resource Planning
Supply Chain Management
Web Application Server
Customer Relationship Management
Enterprise Portal
Composition Environment
Solution Manager
Emerging Skills
linked to core skills
use your gut feel
pick areas you like
J2EE admin
Environmental Compliance
Governance Risk 
and Compliance
Infrastructure and virtualisation
Oracle administration
Operating Systems 
(Unix, Linux, Windows)
Printing and Output Management
Batch Management
User interface
Consulting Skills
non technical
helps to differentiate you
may be ITIL based
Change Management
Business Process Expert
Process Modelling
End user management
End user Training
Testing
Team leader
On call support
Identify skill gaps
Determine how to fill gaps
Prioritise gaps
Actively get skilled up
constantly re-assess gaps

Book study
Formal training
Certification
Podcasts and webcasts
SDN, Wikis, Articles, blogs
Write a weblog
Hands on experience
Regular innovation forum
More daily system checks
Work on more severity 1 trouble tickets
Install a NetWeaver preview system
Social 
Identity
Strategy
Your social and professional identities are connected
Make yourself known professionally
Pursue things which matter to you
Connect with other like minded people
Interract and exchange information
Converstation fosters and develops expertise
Build a reputation and your credentials
Become a thought leader

SAP Developer Network
SAP User group
Talk at a conference
Keep Linked-In current
Listen to other professionals on Twitter
Find your place at your speed
treat it like an adventure
many opportunities will arise
raise the bar on yourself
indentify industry gaps and trends
make the SAP community a better place
Backup and recovery
Build social capital
Solve problems
Become super-user or go-to person
Performance and 
capacity management
Community based
open source projects
A simple plan?
Online CBT
Slowly does it