This document discusses various career paths available with Salesforce skills, including working as an in-house Salesforce specialist, working for a Salesforce partner firm, freelancing, and starting your own Salesforce partner firm. It provides details on the roles and responsibilities for each path, such as an in-house specialist advising on advancing Salesforce use and managing users, partner firms working on multiple small projects or single large projects, freelancing requiring technical and soft skills to understand clients' needs, and starting a firm by obtaining certification and working on initial projects. It also discusses establishing a brand through meetups, events, non-profit work, social media, and blogging.

1. Salesforce
Skills:
Career
Insights

2. Agenda
• Paths with Salesforce Skills
• In-house Salesforce Specialist
• Work for a Salesforce Partner
• Freelancer
• Start a Salesforce Partner Firm
• Establishing Your Brand

3. Paths with
Salesforce Skills
• In-house Salesforce
Specialist
• Work at a Salesforce
Partner
• Freelancer
• Start your own Partner
Firm

4. In-House
Salesforce
Specialist

5. In-house Salesforce Specialist
• A Company that uses Salesforce or Salesforce Themselves
• Certified Salesforce Administrator
• Strong Business Analyst & Reporting Skills
• Salesforce “Champion”
• Advise how to advance current use of Salesforce
• Ability to manage users and clean data
• On-boarding new employees
• Data migration
• “Culture Clash”

6. Salesforce Partner
Firm

7. Salesforce Partner Firm
(ISV vs SI)
● There isn’t any one or group of firms
dominating the market
● High M&A activity in the space

8. Salesforce Partner Firm
Small Firms
• Responsibilities often
extend outside of job title
• Work on multiple small
projects at a time
• Likely to have to pick up
multiple products quickly
Corporate
• Responsibilities clearly
defined
• Most likely tied up with one
project for an entire year
• Hone in on one or two
product specializations

9. Freelance

10. Freelance
● Experience
● About 20 projects
● Technical & People Skills
● Learn about business problems in the
community
● Unexpected Obstacles → What rate to
charge?
● Understand what the client wants built
● Every client is unique

11. Start Your Own
Partner Firm

12. Start Your Own Firm
• Salesforce Admin Certification
• Work on Projects yourself
• https://partnersignup.salesforce.com/

13. Establish Your Brand
• Meetups in your local community
• Attend Salesforce related events: https://www.salesforce.com/events/
• Attend Salesforce’s competitors events
• If possible: subscribe to different partners on social media and attend their events!
• Non-profit Work
• https://www.catchafire.org/
• https://builtwith.com/
• Join Facebook & LinkedIn Groups for Salesforce
• Trailhead
• Quora
• Blog
• Square Space (Good Blogging UI, paid but there are discounts for students)
• Wix.com (Free)
• Wordpress (Free)

14. Q&A

15. Thank You!