SAS Career Path

About SAS

Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS is a trusted analytics powerhouse for organizations seeking immediate value from their data. A deep bench of analytics solutions and broad industry knowledge keep our customers coming back and feeling confident. With SAS, you can discover insights from your data and make sense of it all. Identify what’s working and fix what isn’t. Make more intelligent decisions. And drive relevant change.

Certification Options

There are plenty of courses / certifications available to kick-start your career in analytics. These courses are provided in online, offline or hybrid mode. The only difficulty student face is to decide the best out of these courses. With some newly introduced courses, it has become even more difficult to make a convincing decision. The fear of investing in unworthy courses continues to remain the biggest hurdle for students. Being a certified Professional gives a professional a distinctive edge among the competition. Also, it is an opportunity to learn data science if you’re still a student or a graduate, and then confidently advance into the vast realms of data science.

SAS is the globally recognized analytics software provider and it has helped many organization across the globe in achieving their targets and desired results. When the organization grow with the help of such a sophisticated product, it is obvious that those organizations need people and engineers. So ultimately, SAS has provided many professional opportunities to those who have preferred to choose SAS software-related career. SAS has many professional certificates to award to those professionals who successfully demonstrate their SAS skills at the SAS certification exams.

I should not start with this as we all know this, however, this always gives me a good start! : ) “SAS is one of the most popular Data Analytics tool currently available in the field.”

As the above statement is true, we can assume (it is fact indeed) that the demand of the SAS Professional in the market would be high almost every time. So those who are looking for the entry level or intermediate job in the SAS Data Analytics field, the most important is to clear a face to face interview or I would say to get oneself selected for the face to face interview. Establish self in the right position to get SAS used as propeller for your career flight as SAS is easy to learn and provides an easy option (PROC SQL) for people who already know SQL. SAS is on par with all leading tools including R & Python when it comes to handling huge amount of data and options for parallel computations. Globally, SAS is the market leader in available corporate jobs, and if we go by country, in some countries SAS has market share as high as 70%. If you are planning to build career in the field of Data Analytics with SAS technologies, we feel this is the right most time to start with SAS Certification Training. As we move ahead in this article, we will discuss some of the features and some of the common areas which will be very hand for those preparing for the career launch and getting ready for the upcoming interviews.

Be Familiar with Programming workspace

First thing first, lets us become familiar with SAS workspace. The SAS environment is designed to be easy to use, with windows for accomplishing all the basic SAS tasks. After you become familiar with the starting points for your SAS tasks, you are ready to use the full range of capabilities that SAS offers.

Below shown is the method for you to use SAS windows to manage your SAS session, to work with files, and to process SAS programs.