Navigate Your Salesforce Career
Rebecca Saar
Sr. Manager, Admin Marketing
Salesforce
@RebeccaSaar
Mike Gerholdt
Director, Admin Evangelism
Salesforce
@MikeGerholdt
Today’s Speakers
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mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our
employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com
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#AwesomeAdmin
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Salesforce Admins
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• Salesforce Economy
• Build the Skills
• Beyond the Skills
• Resources
• Q&A
Today’s Agenda
Think Lego Blocks, Not Puzzle Pieces
Navigate your Career
Salesforce
Economy
Build the
Skills
Beyond the
Skills
Salesforce Economy
Admins Drive the Salesforce Economy
Source 1. “The Salesforce Economy”, IDC, Aug 2016 2. Burning Glass Report, “Salesforce Skills Demand”, Aug 2016 3. IDC, A Trillion-Dollar Boost: The Economic Impact of AI on CRM (June 2017)
jobs in 2017
2ofthe
Top 10
Trailblazers
2.5M+
new jobs
by 2022
3.3M
in GDP impact by 2022
$859B
Rebe de La Paz, Shonnah Hughes, Jennifer Lee
$1B+
in social impact
Demand Extends Across Multiple Career Paths
For more info visit: trailhead.salesforce.com/career-path
Build the Skills
Learn all the skills you need
• Business, tech & soft skills
• On-demand & expert-led courses
Earn skill-based credentials
• 400+ badges
• 33 credentials
Connect with fellow Trailblazers
• 1 Million learners
• Trailblazer Community
The Fun Way to Learn
Learn with Trailhead
10M+
Badges Earned
1. Company
mission,
values, and
competition
2. Leadership
goals and
measures
3. How
customers
engage
4. How users
succeed and
get paid
Explore What Really Counts at Your Company
This will help you build a brilliant Salesforce strategy
Beyond Trailhead…
! Business Writing
" Improv Classes
# Community
Groups
$ Build fun apps to
get experience
% Public Speaking
& Curiosity
' Networking
Beyond the Skills
Think of Yourself as a Brand
What is your
Brand?
• Google yourself
• What is your brand?
• What are you saying?
• What should you be saying?
Rock Your Interview
• Remember interviews are a two- way
conversation so come with your questions!
• Research is NOT optional
• Interviews are an opportunity to pitch
yourself!
• Build Sample Apps
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Navigate Your Career Outside of this Webinar
←↑→
Think Lego blocks,
not puzzle pieces
It’s not about how many
Lego blocks you have,
but what you build with your
blocks.
Resources
Resources
Trailmix
bit.ly/careertrailmix
Blog Post
admin.salesforce.com/navigating-your-salesforce-career
Podcast
admin.salesforce.com/insight-navigate-your-salesforce-career
Story
admin.salesforce.com/different-paths-one-common-career-new-admin-stories
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Navigate Your Salesforce Career

Navigate Your Salesforce Career

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    Rebecca Saar Sr. Manager,Admin Marketing Salesforce @RebeccaSaar Mike Gerholdt Director, Admin Evangelism Salesforce @MikeGerholdt Today’s Speakers
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    This presentation maycontain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of any litigation, risks associated with completed and any possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter. These documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Forward-Looking Statement
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    Connect with Us! SalesforceAdmins @SalesforceAdmns #AwesomeAdmin admin.salesforce.com Salesforce Admins Salesforce Admins
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    Watch the Recording Thevideo will be posted to YouTube & the webinar recap page: bit.ly/salesforcecareer This webinar is being recorded!
  • 6.
    Join the AdminWebinar Group for Q&A! Don’t wait until the end to ask your question! • We have team members on hand to answer questions in the webinar group. Stick around for live Q&A at the end! • Speakers will tackle more questions at the end, time-allowing bit.ly/AdminWebinarGroup
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    • Salesforce Economy •Build the Skills • Beyond the Skills • Resources • Q&A Today’s Agenda
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    Think Lego Blocks,Not Puzzle Pieces
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    Admins Drive theSalesforce Economy Source 1. “The Salesforce Economy”, IDC, Aug 2016 2. Burning Glass Report, “Salesforce Skills Demand”, Aug 2016 3. IDC, A Trillion-Dollar Boost: The Economic Impact of AI on CRM (June 2017) jobs in 2017 2ofthe Top 10 Trailblazers 2.5M+ new jobs by 2022 3.3M in GDP impact by 2022 $859B Rebe de La Paz, Shonnah Hughes, Jennifer Lee $1B+ in social impact
  • 12.
    Demand Extends AcrossMultiple Career Paths For more info visit: trailhead.salesforce.com/career-path
  • 13.
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    Learn all theskills you need • Business, tech & soft skills • On-demand & expert-led courses Earn skill-based credentials • 400+ badges • 33 credentials Connect with fellow Trailblazers • 1 Million learners • Trailblazer Community The Fun Way to Learn Learn with Trailhead 10M+ Badges Earned
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    1. Company mission, values, and competition 2.Leadership goals and measures 3. How customers engage 4. How users succeed and get paid Explore What Really Counts at Your Company This will help you build a brilliant Salesforce strategy
  • 16.
    Beyond Trailhead… ! BusinessWriting " Improv Classes # Community Groups $ Build fun apps to get experience % Public Speaking & Curiosity ' Networking
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    Think of Yourselfas a Brand What is your Brand? • Google yourself • What is your brand? • What are you saying? • What should you be saying?
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    Rock Your Interview •Remember interviews are a two- way conversation so come with your questions! • Research is NOT optional • Interviews are an opportunity to pitch yourself! • Build Sample Apps ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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    Navigate Your CareerOutside of this Webinar ←↑→
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    It’s not abouthow many Lego blocks you have, but what you build with your blocks.
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