11 Jun 1997
Specialist SAP consultancies have slammed Price Waterhouse adverts which offer contractors with SAP skills a job on the spot if they attend an open day.
The SAP market is lucrative, with contractors costing customers about #700 a day. Price Waterhouse is trying to build up a SAP business in the UK and has been advertising for contractors in the Sunday Times and Computing.
Peter Hopkisson, a director of SAP partner Druid, said: 'The SAP market has had enough bad publicity without a high-profile international consultancy bypassing normal recruitment procedures.
'This kind of ad fuels criticism that SAP contractors are overpaid techies without experience or other important business skills.'
Russell Charlesworth, marketing director at 121 Consulting, said: 'Aggressive tactics like this carry the inference that if you simply turn up with three letters on your CV you will get a job.'
A spokesman for Price Waterhouse denied this: 'Candidates come to these open days by invitation only. They still have three interviews and psychometric testing. We do not cut corners.'
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