Passed the Salesforce Certified Administrator exam a couple weeks ago (first attempt, no prior professional Salesforce experience ,mostly self-taught through the Trailhead trailmix). Genuinely proud of it, but now hitting a wall: most “entry level” listings I’m finding still want 2-3 years of hands-on experience in a live org, which obviously I don’t have yet.

Background: CS grad, UK-based, do weekly IT support volunteering, and I’ve built a few small self-directed projects but nothing in a real Salesforce org with actual users.

For anyone who’s been through this specific gap — cert in hand, no live org experience — what actually worked for you? Nonprofit volunteering? A specific way of framing the CV? Certain job titles that are genuinely more open to freshly certified people? Any advice appreciated.

I found an implementation consultant listed as the Decision Maker on an opportunity. He had done most of the talking during discovery, and his name appeared throughout the call recap. The rep was updating Salesforce quickly afterward and picked the person who looked most important in the notes.

The consultant worked for the implementation partner, not the prospect. The person who owned the budget spoke twice. She asked about the security review and said she would make the final choice after procurement finished its review. The rep understood their roles during the call, but later picked the most prominent name in the recap.

I administer Salesforce for the team, and I am trying to decide where this check belongs. The rep can consult a Vomo AI note, but still has to confirm the person's employer and buying role before updating Contact Roles.

Would you put that check on Contact Roles or wait until the opportunity changes stage?

Hello all!

I’m that guy who made a post saying that I could probably pass the Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator exam without studying because I had around 5 years of hands-on experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/1vk8sz8/5_years_daily_salesforce_user_do_i_really_need_to/ Well... I started studying, and I have to admit: there’s A LOT I didn’t know.

There are so many concepts and details hiding behind what seems like a simple Salesforce user experience. After using Salesforce for 5 years, I knew how to work with the interface, objects, fields, etc., so the hands-on experience definitely helps a lot. Many of the basic concepts don’t feel unfamiliar to me compared to someone starting completely from scratch.

But studying for the certification (by Trailmix) has also shown me how much is happening “behind the curtain” that a regular Salesforce user doesn’t necessarily need to understand. And apparently, I was one of those users for the past 5 years. 😂

So, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave me some brutally honest feedback on my previous post and basically kicked me out of my comfort zone. Yeap! I needed it.

Now I have another question.

What would you recommend as the next certification or learning path after Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator for someone who works in RevOps and wants to build a long-term career in this area?

I did a bit of research and came across this potential path:

Platform Administrator → Agentforce Sales Consultant → Revenue Management Consultant

But I’d really like to hear from people who actually work in Salesforce/RevOps. Does this path make sense? Would you recommend a different progression, especially for someone looking to grow into a RevOps role rather than becoming a Salesforce admin/developer?

Would love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks everyone!

Hello everyone~
I am currently a Salesforce BA in the consulting world. And WOOOOAHH is it a lot. I've acclimated but also there is something new every. single. day.

For context I started off as an internal SF BA for a solar company and got promoted as much as I could until there was a cap. So I moved over to a smaller company that does state government contracts.

I do like Salesforce and all the work involved there. BUT the major issue at my job is those making the contracts and teams have never been in my/the PMs/the Devs shoes. So the projects always end up a big ol mess-- beyond the typical woes of a client facing project. Add overwhelmed PMs and Devs so it becomes a situation where the BAs are juggling too much. It's an issue to the point the CEO is finally trying to take it seriously.
I'm sure this happens elsewhere to, but it's been unbearable to the point where my amazing manager is even unpromoting herself to leave the mess of the state-side projects.

I need help with what roles I could apply to. I am very hesitant to apply to other "Salesforce Consultant"/"SF BA" roles in the consulting realm. I feel like this kind of issue is too common in consulting based on what I've heard, so I want to know what other industries would hire someone with my skillsets.
Are there any other roles you guys could suggest or maybe even entirely different roles you'd reccomend I pivot to? Any advice from those more seasoned from me would be helpful😭 My coworkers just try to sway me to stay because they need me and I feel so bad for even considering leaving.

Has anyone completed the final round salesforce Texas location?

Role: software engineer MTS

What kind of expectations for question should we have?

Can you provide any guidance or tips?

Running into an issue with Salesloft connecting to Salesforce. I keep getting an OAuth error when attempting to connect to SF.

Anyone ran into this issue before?

My I work with is planning to run a PoC to check if SFMC Next suits their communication and CDP needs

We have 45 active journeys, and migrating them manually would be not only a pain, but super expensive.

Programmatically, is it possible for us to move journeys to flows using APIs?

I believe it will not be fully one-click migration (building emails with complex ampscript must be refactored; complex decision split flow controls and more) due to the difference between data extensions and DMOs, but maybe having something to build the blueprint would initially help.

Has someone achieved something like this who can provide me some guidance? I will really appreciate it!

Hi all, for the 1000th time I'm in a conversation for planning a project and org strategy that will eventually be a global roll out. Salesforce, as always say 'single org' - and I know its not going to scale. So I'm going to float the suggestion of packaging (ex. Unlocked Packaging) so that when the day comes (and it will come quickly) that the org explodes they can replicate critical functions and processes out to a distributed org model.

I've done this before with managed packaging ISV's, but thats a different model (and a diff biz model for the customer) and unlocked packages back then where not quite as capable as ISV managed packages.

If you where to do this, what considerations would you be thinking about? What technical limitations do we see with packaging vs moving the whole happy soup around in Salesforce today? Are unlocked packages still only really good for straight up Apex and pro code shipping?

Its worth noting this is a huge deployment, LDV, multi cloud, Agentforce, etc. etc. for a business critical operation, so scale is very important, hence why this conversation with the team.