dead serious question for SAS

[rootsnall]

Somebody in the office just asked if anybody had heard of SAS. Apparently their cousin in India had got his training courses mixed up and did SAS instead SAP. He wants to know his job prospects in UK and Europe ?

ps. this is dead serious

[sasguru]

Somebody in the office just asked if anybody had heard of SAS. Apparently their cousin in India had got his training courses mixed up and did SAS instead SAP. He wants to know his job prospects in UK and Europe ?

ps. this is dead serious

SAS job prospects for numpties are very poor indeed. Dead serious.
I can just imagine the interview "So what made you interested in SAS?"

Move on nothing to see here.

[rootsnall]

SAS job prospects for numpties are very poor indeed. Dead serious.
I can just imagine the interview "So what made you interested in SAS?"

Move on nothing to see here.

I will pass the inside knowledge on. Was it quite popular late 80s/early 90s, seem to remember somebody I know doing it at Shell and it being the boom skill ? Could of been another similar acronym though.

[DodgyAgent]

I will pass the inside knowledge on. Was it quite popular late 80s/early 90s, seem to remember somebody I know doing it at Shell and it being the boom skill ? Could of been another similar acronym though.

I dont thing SG has ever been popular

[sasguru]

I will pass the inside knowledge on. Was it quite popular late 80s/early 90s, seem to remember somebody I know doing it at Shell and it being the boom skill ? Could of been another similar acronym though.

OK I'll be more helpful. SAS has never been a boom skill, more a steady niche one since the late 70s. Used wherever large volumes of data need to be analysed.

SAS is too huge to be classed as a single skill. In a nutshell, at the bottom level is the programming and data manipulation language, then you can produce data warehouses and OLAP cubes, at the top level there's business analytics where you produce complex business models using statistics. And there are various Web tools so you can put your results on the web.

It's highly unlikely that anyone who confuses SAS and SAP should be in the IT industry, however.

[Jog On]

I know this bird (she's quite fit) who now works at the 'SAS Institute'.. I'd never even heard of it until then.

[DimPrawn]

Wanted to learn SAP, got confused and did SAS, and ended up with the SAQ.

IGMC.

[sasguru]

I know this bird (she's quite fit) who now works at the 'SAS Institute'.. I'd never even heard of it until then.

One of the best places to work in the UK.

[Ruprect]

I know this bird (she's quite fit) who now works at the 'SAS Institute'.. I'd never even heard of it until then.

Quite fit, and does IT? Are you sure?

[Jog On]

Quite fit, and does IT? Are you sure?

Yes - a proper 'office distraction' and no dolly bird either - she now works at one of the best places to work in the UK apparently.