Scaling up with self-paced and guided SAP learning
Key Takeaways
⇨ Workers are increasingly seeking to expand their skills, particularly in areas like AI, machine learning and cloud computing, to enhance career opportunities and personal growth.
⇨ Approximately 60% of businesses report skill gaps in the local labor market, creating significant opportunities for workers with the right skill sets, especially as companies focus on digital transformation.
⇨ SAP is leading efforts to bridge the digital skills gap by pledging to equip two million people with digital skills by 2025, offering extensive learning resources and certification opportunities to support continuous growth and development.
As businesses are gearing up to capitalize on the revival of international economies, workers are looking to expand their skills to reap more success, with sought-after skills such as AI promising exciting career opportunities, personal growth and salary increases.
However, as about 60 percent of businesses report that skill gaps in the local labor market hold back their transformations, according to a January report by the World Economic Forum, this presents opportunities for workers with the right skill sets.
At the same time, some of the fastest-growing digital skills include AI, machine learning and cloud computing, with demand for them seemingly moving from Silicon Valley closer to home as most organizations seek such workers to thrive in the workplace of the future.
One such company putting the development of digital skills at the forefront is SAP, offering self-paced and learning resources for people interested in building in-demand skills. This helps expand the opportunities and learning access to everyone who wants to gain a new skill, stay up to date with the latest innovations and get certified to start or boost their career in tech.
Major upskilling efforts
As the organization has pledged to equip two million people with digital skills by 2025, bridging the skills gap with engagement, enablement and experience, SAP is creating opportunities through learning and development for all with free, self-paced and guided, premium resources on the SAP Learning site.
For a guided learning experience, SAP Learning Hub subscriptions unlock access to hands-on practice systems, expert-led live sessions and certification opportunities to maximize skills. This helps provide everything needed to get and stay certified, stay up-to-date with continuous learning and achieve more with SAP software.
As many learners decide to pursue the route of certification to showcase their skills and boost their careers, the enhanced SAP Learning Hub also offers four certification exam attempts per learner per year to encourage a culture of continuous growth.
SAP is heavily focused on supporting AI-related knowledge, offering learning and enablement for future-focused areas, roles and SAP solutions, including key innovation areas such as SAP Cloud ERP, SAP BTP and AI. Some examples of available resources include: Exploring the SAP Business AI Portfolio, Navigating Large Language Models fundamentals and techniques for use cases and Enabling Prompt Engineering with SAP Business AI.
On top of future-focused enablement content, SAP has established a community of peers with over 3.2 million unique users per month, this is where people create new networks, share knowledge and ideas, and learn from each other.
With many organizations embarking on high-stake transformation efforts to stay ahead of the competition, ramping up your skills and expertise with the help of SAP can help you boost your career.