The consultants at Consult-SK GmbH can once again report growth this year: Tjorven Borcherding is "the new guy", who we take a closer look at in this interview.
Tjorven, like other employees, you don't come directly from the software environment. What area did you start your career in, what are you doing with us now and what motivated you to do it?
"After completing my vocational baccalaureate in economics and administration, I started training as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant and got to know the trade in telecommunications products. After successfully completing my training, I was employed there for several years in the following areas Purchasing and sales. During this time, I was able to acquire comprehensive knowledge of the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, which is particularly important now and will make it much easier for me to start my new job.
Even though I enjoyed the work a lot, over time I asked myself whether there wasn't another field of activity that would suit me even better. And if you want to reorient yourself professionally, you should take this step as early as possible to avoid losing valuable time and experience. It was particularly important to me that the new direction was in an industry with a secure future and that I could continue to use my previous professional experience. After a lot of research, I eventually came across SAP consulting, which I researched further and was then certain - that's what I wanted to do 😉.
It has now been a few months since I made this statement and I am now part of the team and can support my colleagues in consulting. In the last few weeks, I have already been involved in many meetings with customers and partners, but also in internal coordination and have therefore been able to learn a lot about the project processes, customer requirements and generally the daily work at CSK. At the same time, I am studying business informatics alongside my job in order to further expand my theoretical knowledge of the topics I work with here."
We have two areas of focus that overlap here and there: Consulting and development. After your first experiences with us - do you already know which direction you are more drawn to?
"I was really open to it at first because the development is very interesting - especially when you see what is technically possible. But after my first impressions, I realized that I was more interested in consulting. I like working directly with people, understanding processes and find it exciting to develop solutions together. It's simply closer to the processes and fits in well with my background in purchasing/sales."
How has your onboarding with us gone so far? Is there anything that was new for you in terms of onboarding?
"The onboarding was really great and flawless. My colleagues were very friendly and helpful and helped me find my way around the company very quickly. The happy hour, which takes place regularly, and the joint lunch breaks are also great opportunities to get to know each other better. Organizationally, it was also well planned so that you were equipped with everything straight away and everything was set up. If necessary, there is also neat documentation on all the important topics if you need to look something up quickly 🤝"
When it comes to company cars, people here love to talk shop about configurations. Suppose you could add a feature to a car that you had thought up yourself, no matter how unrealistic it might be - what would it be?
"Really not an easy question, but my glove compartment is such unused space. A small mini-bar, with soft drinks of course, or a built-in airfryer for the emergency pack of dinonuggets, wouldn't be bad."
