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SAP Salvation - Taking The Pain Out of SAP Skills Search

4 July, 2006 - Online recruitment specialist, The IT Job Board (www.theitjobboard.com), has launched a new, skill-specific site to serve the prestigious SAP community. Sponsored by SAP users including Atos Origin, Axon, IBM and LogicaCMG, The SAP Job Board (www.thesapjobboard.com) is available in English, French, German and Dutch. It brings together sought-after SAP candidates with employers struggling to fill positions in this niche market.

Managing SAP's enterprise software applications requires bespoke training, which is not undertaken by most IT professionals. The resulting shortage of SAP expertise makes it difficult for organisations to recruit these complex skills. This problem will become more acute as SAP extends its reach beyond its traditional base of large customers and targets the mid-range market with products such as mySAP1.

SAP professionals, including The IT Job Board's 38,000 existing SAP-specific candidates, signing up with The SAP Job Board are registered on a database that provides employers, both directly and via recruitment agencies, with powerful search and targeting capabilities. In addition, The SAP Job Board will offer employers guidelines on attracting high-calibre staff in this competitive market. The objective is to streamline the overall process through careful matching of criteria specified by both organisations and candidates.

Ray Duggins, managing director of The IT Job Board comments: "We continually monitor the state-of-play of IT careers to make sure our offerings match market requirements. The SAP Job Board is a serious commitment to the whole SAP community. It will cut down the time-consuming, frustrating, and often fruitless, search that is inflicted on the HR department of organisations needing this skill. Equally, specialist SAP candidates can be assured that they will only be targeted with positions that match their aspirations."