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Hi all,
Newly qualified and struggling to find a role. Have missed out on a few roles where experience was needed specifically in Sage or Dynamics or Oracle. My only experience to date is with system SAP (4.5 years).
Does anyone know a good way of overcoming such barriers – would having certification help? I can see a Sage 50 certification for c. 200£ online, but I think most medium or large companies use Sage 200 so not sure how similar they are or how worth it would be?
And more generally, would certification be deemed a worthy substitute for experience? Or anyone have any insight or advice? Must be a commonly enough encountered problem. I guess its tricky because unlike learning something like Excel which is used across all roles, there are quite a few accounting systems.
Thanks
Sage 50, 100 and 200 are completely different board games. They are completely different layout, work mechanism, system and paths. Sage 50 certification might help, but you better have some industrial experience on Sage 50, as this is vast majority of companies use, and it has capacity to up to turnover £30m. Sage 100 and 200 are for big companies where their turnover are £60m+ or £100m+. You will be most unlikely to touch of them unless you work for them or you work in a big auditors.
Interesting question!
Many years ago I was thinking of ways to add more skills to my portfolio and I signed up for Sage 50 certification. It was a waste of time! There were constant server issues where the learning portal would not upload and the customer service team could not resolve the issue. At least I got my refund.
I ended up getting Sage Line 50 experience at a small company I temped at. Therefore in my experience one just learns these different accounting systems by moving companies.
Lack of experience in a particular system is not a massive barrier.The fact that you have the least user friendly system – SAP – in your profile is a massive boost to your credentials. Employers should know that if you can adapt to SAP, then you have the aptitude to learn anything.
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