10 Ways To Sell Yourself as a Salesforce Professional

Heather Black, the CEO of Supermums has been helping people into employment for over 20 years as a Career Coach and has been a leader of a Salesforce Consultancy, Training, and Recruitment Agency since 2012. She has interviewed many professionals during this time and sees the missed opportunities first-hand. She is passionate about accelerating people's careers as a trainer, coach and leader. Here are her 10 top tips for advancing your Salesforce Career which she shares in her Amazon Best Selling Book 'Become a Super Salesforce Consultant' .

Here are 10 ways to stand out in your interview or performance review!

1 – Demonstrate Impact and Outcomes

What difference have you made to the organisations and teams you have worked with before? Do you know how to measure the ROI of your work so show your financial impact?

2 – Professional Tools and Techniques

What professional tools, templates, and techniques can you demonstrate in your approach to Salesforce projects? What is your methodology? Get equipped with resources using the Supermums?Consultancy Skills Course if you don't have this nailed.

3 – Conduct a Bench-marking Activity

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4 – Add Consultancy Skills to your Bow Strings

Regardless of the Salesforce Role you apply for, boosting your CV with Consultancy Skills - Business Analysis, Agile Project Management and Change Management Skills will advance your salary and give you a better chance of doing a great job as well as earning more. Typically Business Analysts earn 10k more than Admins, and Project Managers can earn up to 20k more. Upskill with the Supermums Consultancy Skills Course starting on the 23rd Sept.

5 – Add DevOps Certifications to your Knowledge

DevOps is now being mentioned in most of the technical job specifications from Admin to Architect and everything in-between. It’s highly recommended that you learn and master the principles of DevOps, one of the DevOps platforms and add this to your skill set and CV. This will contribute to your earning potential. Get your first DevOps Certs with LaunchPad

6 – Add 5 x Salesforce Certifications?

To advance between the different job roles you are typically looking at earning 5 certifications each time to advance your knowledge and expertise. Product knowledge that comes with 5 certifications will advance your salary between 10-20k.?

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7 – Sell your Professional Experience

Apply for roles where you can transfer your industry experience, attributes, professional skills, management experience, or product knowledge. The more experience you can share the more salary you can leverage as they will appreciate your knowledge.

8 – Don’t Shy Away from Management Roles

Women are less represented in management roles, so companies want to balance out their gender split by hiring more women for management roles. By taking on a management and leadership role you can increase your salary, progress your career and focus on supporting a team to flourish below you through coaching and mentoring.

9 – Build your Personal Brand?

Companies will be attracted to candidates who have a good reputation and profile in the Salesforce Ohana as it’s shows goodwill and it’s also good for their own brand and customers. Can you write blogs, create videos, speak at events, produce a podcast.

10 – Become a Third-Party App Expert

Understand a suite of commonly used Third-Party Apps to improve your management and use of Salesforce and demonstrate the value they can bring to a solution. Demonstrating your experience and knowledge of Third-Party Apps, particularly ones that a potential client/employer is using, will add weight to your salary.

How can we help?

Accelerate your Career?by joining the Supermums?Consultancy Skills Course next week and learning from Heather directly to equip yourself with professional tools, skills, and confidence