How to Get a Salesforce Job - in Under 5 Minutes?

so salesforce people are one of the most sought after in the world in terms of skill set um there's lots of rules available and there's some fantastic salaries on the back of that as well so if you've ever thought um about what salesforce is whether it's worth getting a career in salesforce maybe you've been thinking about it already or maybe you work in a company that's got salesforce and you're thinking hey i can do this as an administrator or otherwise then why not get your certification and try and get a role as a sales force administrator consultant whatever it might be as you progress through a career with salesforce well let's have a look now in this video because we're going to look within five minutes i'm going to try and stick a timer on and stay within the five minutes um about what are some of the key things that you can do to actually get a job in salesforce what is it you need to kind of start on your path and we'll also be looking at something that i've been working with it's a company called talent stacker they'll be able to help you along that path to guide you along with their five-day challenge which will look at the end and also work with a bigger group of people across the world to try and get a certification and a job ultimately uh in salesforce so let's have a look right now at some of those things that you can do to get a job in salesforce [Music] so the first thing off the bat is what is salesforce so again some of you probably know already what salesforce is all about it that's great if you are here and you're totally fresh well i'm not going to go too far into the detail of what salesforce is as a company and everything but they're one of the biggest companies in the world they're bigger than nike pepsico and all of those companies top 25 in the world in fact and they're actually a software as a service company it was referred to as sas basically means you don't need to install anything on your computer you just access it through the web and you pay subscription for it but what is it well the software is something called crm it's customer relationship management and that basically means um a software or a platform where you can pretty much do anything that you can think of in terms of selling or servicing to a customer which could be an individual like me or it could be a whole company now in fact i've done a little youtube short for 60 seconds that tells you pretty much all about salesforce which is kind of what i've just said um but a bit more succinct so go check it out i'll put a little card up there if you just want a quick little recap about what salesforce is and everything like that so one of the first things you need to do is to get online you're already online go online and go to trailhead it's the salesforce online free platform for learning how to do salesforce now do what so what we're looking at specifically although there's materials on here to learn to do slack integration they bought slack by the way they're owned by salesforce now or tableau yes they bought tableau they say analytics software um or actual salesforce itself but what what we really want to be looking at if you're going to enter a career in salesforce it's looking to become a salesforce administrator and on there there will be in fact let's have a quick look so here we are here is the website it's trailhead.salesforce.com i'll put links in the description to help out and here is where you can get started for free you set up a profile you know you put picture up there it's quite nice there's a community of people on there as well around the world thousands and thousands of people but the key thing is that you can learn and what they there's lots of multiple modules that you can do so you can look for individual bite size things that could take between five minutes ten minutes or even half an hour and do it in your own time of course but there are trails and trail mixes which are basically saying okay i'll click on the trail now um oh i want to learn how to uh i mean some of these are quite specific here so admin advanced admin beginner oh that's the one that i want so you can actually search admin beginner in the top or you can click here and you can see that they've got a point system so if you complete all of the modules in here you get 9500 points which goes against your profile now who cares about that well one thing you'll want to care because it will help you actually get a certification in terms of it's a gamification approach as you do a module you get a badge and you get points yay that makes you feel good that gives you a double mean boost to make you know that you're doing the right thing towards a career in salesforce the other thing as well is that when you are actually looking out to get a job there will be people that will be looking on obviously your linkedin but they will be looking to see if you've got a certification and you can actually check credentials on here by checking or verifying certifications and they'll also be able to see how many modules you've completed how many points you've got if you don't have a trailhead account and no points and no modules or no badges or anything they'll be like hmm where is this where's this person learning salesforce it doesn't mean that 100 of people will not get a job unless you've got trailhead but i'm telling you now you need to stack things in your favor to sit above everyone else now like i said there's lots of jobs available for salesforce but you want to be top of the pile especially for the jobs that you'll be going for in your area so anyway number one number one number one trailhead get on it get your profile start doing a trailhead trail mix as they call it or trail and admin beginner is the one you want to be looking for so get on it now the second thing and obviously this should be an obvious thing but the second thing that you need to get or you need to be getting towards is a certification the one that you need is the salesforce administrator one because that's the entry level one that's the thing that makes you go oh you know salesforce you can do all of the basics and by basics i don't mean like oh click here click there there's some quite sophisticated stuff that you'll be doing things like running or creating reports and administrating the the profiles or the users to make sure they've got the right access the security model to make sure they can see the right things so there's lots of things that an admin does it's no small thing but it's very achievable that's the key thing that i want to say hey i ain't clever okay i also don't code i don't know coding but i am like a 14-year sales force experienced consultant now i've even got my own um salesforce consultancy that i've set up so if i can do it you can do it and the first steps would be that certification that proves that you're committed to the role it also proves that you can actually do the job because that's the evidence certification very much if you you know if you go to university for degree in doctoring um then you're gonna know ah you can do doctor stuff if you don't have a doctor's degree they're probably not gonna employ you as a doctor you probably don't want anyone to be your doctor same thing here and the certification is a very well respected thing because it's salesforce's own certification so they don't just give it to anybody but again it's achievable believe in yourself and don't forget like we've just seen in the previous step with the trailhead everything's in bite size so you can just wait you could spend the next few months or so just working through them maybe do one a night you know five ten minutes that's absolutely nothing in fact if we just go back into um into my browser here you'll see in trailhead that there is a credentials bit and if you go to two certifications you'll be able to see that you've got these different roles so what's required in order to do these roles well for a lot of the ones after you need salesforce administrator as a basis you can't be an architect you can't be a developer you can't be want any of these unless you've got the salesforce administrator certification and there's a there's a couple of them so you've got administrator this one here you've got advanced administrator cpq specialist cpq means configure price quote it's for things like things like a shopping cart thing where you've got products and you price them all together um marketing cloud administrator platform app builder sounds confusing don't worry about any of these just look at administrator that's the one focus laser focus is the key to achievement so yes this is the one that you want to look for as you were doing your trail that we mentioned in trailhead um you'll be getting the information and you've even got a study and prepare guide so you'll be able to get the exam guide it's a pdf or i think it's even a site now and then you can kind of see the sorts of things that you need to be doing to prepare for it and you can see there that you've got the trail head so prepare for your administrator credential so it says 44 hours that seems like forever but you know what again we bite size you could get through that in a few months easy or even less depending on how dedicated or much time you want to dedicate to it and there's even some practice tests to do to be like am i there yet am i there yet and the key thing i'll mention here is community so yes there's a trail blazer community but like i said at the beginning of the video talent stacker um has a community of its own worldwide where you'll be you'll be with people doing the same thing there's people that are lorry drivers there's people that work in stocks and shares industry you've got people that work in warehouses factories normal offices doesn't matter where your background is there's people that have got that background that are learning how to get a sales force career and that shared learning experience that other people are doing it with you that will help you along with the accountability factor to actually drive yourself to get that certification the next thing to consider which is really important is of course linkedin you can't get away from it linkedin is the place where of course a lot of recruiters come and like oh do you want to do this job you're like no thanks but it is the place that i'm sure you have done it before the old job person stalking thing where maybe you're going for a job or maybe you're interviewing somebody or maybe you're just interested about what this person does for a living like myself um well you go to their linkedin yes because people are voluntarily posting information about what they do as a job the certifications the experience they've got um yes so linkedin is very important so again with talent stacker they'll help you along the journey with this but you need to get um a good linkedin profile what is a good linkedin profile well you need a professional looking photo no like you know pic you know selfie picture where you look really sad and miserable or something from your webcam where you've got really bad light and you can hardly make someone out or you're zoomed in too much like um just do a nice you know professional looking look smart and take the picture clear background whatever it might be maybe you've got a picture from a wedding and you know what that's the picture that i've used yes it was my brother's wedding way back when and i've got a little bow tie and a little braces and that's the photo i've used for everything and just make it look like you are the person that can do salesforce and in fact let's just go over to my profile because the other thing that's actually great about linkedin is that when you get asked for a cv you can actually generate it from linkedin itself so if you've got a more you can actually go build a resume and when you build a resume what it will do and you can see i've done a couple already um you can create from profile and then it will take everything that's already there because you're obviously spending a lot of time to build your linkedin profile and make it look nice um save the effort and put it into resume for you so there you go that's a little tip there but again make your linkedin look nice have a nice little background there and make sure that you have got all of your experience properly um properly written out there because this is again where people will be looking to see what you're doing you can see mine goes back quite a little bit showing my age i am quite old yes oh i was a camp counsellor once in them in the us yes that was great um and the certification as well and all that kind of stuff so again fantastic if you can get some recommendations even better because recommendations are fantastic as well but it's not the end of the world if you don't get it especially if you're starting out in salesforce you probably won't have any recommendations or maybe it's your first job you're going for the key thing is that you've got your certification and that you have got a nice looking sales force orientated profile page now the other thing and final thing that is really really important when you are trying to set out and get a salesforce job is experience now how do you get experience so some of you watching this might be quite lucky you might already be in a company that's got salesforce so straight off the bat if you've if your company's already got salesforce and you've used it you've got experience in salesforce now it might be as a salesperson it might be as a sales support it could be pretty much anything but if you've been in salesforce then you can put that on there yes because you've used salesforce and used it for setting up marketing or it might be for um recording customer information or using cases or whatever it might be you've got the experience now so you can put that on there if you haven't got salesforce in your company this is the first time you've had a sales force or you're just about to start on the journey well then when you are working through to your certification and you actually have your certification you can also do this before you get it as well if you feel confident um and also for the people i just mentioned that are already in companies with salesforce what is a hugely recommended thing to do if you can is to try and get some hands-on experience using salesforce and there's quite a few volunteer things that you can do so there'll be other companies that you can work with or go out there and just say hey you know i'm working towards my certification or i've got a certification and i'm going to do a little bit of pro bono work or free work um have you got anything that you'd like me to do i can start building reports for you or whatever that's something that's fantastic but it is quite tricky to do that and that's where again talent stacker comes in because within the talent stacker program what they have is the ability to work on real life projects with real life clients in order to gain some hands-on experience so you'll actually be doing some salesforce admin stuff which you can then capture as experience to put on your linkedin profile but also something that will give you confidence because that's the other big key thing as well that confidence that you'll get for yourself you'll be like ah i have actually used it i have actually done this for a company so i'm i'm the person for you what it also does as well is not only does of course like in my linkedin profile it shows that i have experience i've got something to put on my linkedin profile regarding salesforce experience uh it also garners that trust in the employer as well because they can see it there they can go oh between that period of that period or they've had some experience which is ongoing with salesforce great and they've got the certification so there you go you can have the job and it also again it stacks things in your favor compared to other people that are just trying to get a job in salesforce and haven't gone through these types of steps to make themselves look better on linkedin to make themselves have a little bit of experience to actually get a certification you'll be surprised people who don't who actually get jobs as well or try to get jobs now you know what it seems like a lot of work and sometimes these types of journeys can seem daunting trying to get a new job a new career in fact or even move into something like salesforce or some sort of i.t based thing but fear not what talent stacker does for you is give you the ability to see the path clearly to work through that path towards getting a salesforce job or career and does it within a cohort setting in other words with lots of other people around the world literally around the world in the same position as you i highly recommend that you click the link in my description that will take you to this page which is the um page that you can enter your name and email address to start a completely free the five day salesforce challenge and what is the point of it why is it free what does it do well everything that we've gone through about setting up your linkedin and going into trailhead and all that kind of stuff well it's that type of thing but it's much more structured it helps you along the journey creates that bite-size approach to help you on the path on the journey to get your first salesforce certification but ultimately your first salesforce job your role into a new career in salesforce and on this link that i will send you in the description if you sign up there you get five emails in five days with content that you'll be able to see again for free and if you want to continue with it you'll be able to do that from there you'll get information even on the site with the link you'll be able to see again some things like benefits and one thing that i think i highly recommend is really really good you'll be able to see real life examples of people that for example um got a salesforce job in 42 days um started a new career was a stay-at-home mom but now got a career and go through all of these real life people like yourself that have actually been able to get a salesforce career through talent stacker with the support that they provide without further ado go down there go into the description click the link sign up to the five day challenge completely free and let me know in the description in the um comments as well about how you get on and how you find it but yes thank you very much and as always if you see these videos i always hope that you uh go forth and live happy and productive salesforce lives until the next time the salesforce of course be with you

Channel: Adam Foyston

Views: 508

Keywords: salesforce, trailhead, no code, Salesforce, CRM, Consultants, Administrators, Developers, salesforce for everyone, salesforce career path

Id: jE1LPDIp53Q

Length: 18min 38sec (1118 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 18 2021