Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of folks getting hired into Salesforce roles (either by the company itself or being an admin at another company) after doing Salesforce training & certs on their website? I’m considering a career change/boosting my employment opportunities by doing the training and certs, and wanted to see if anyone has any personal experiences or stories from others.

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I did it 5 years ago, with 7 years of IT experience already at that point. Right now the market for admins is quite rough, and unless you plan on learning to code the "learn Salesforce admin and make 6 figures!" path ain't what it was just a few years ago. Not to say it's impossible, but a lot of people got that same idea during the pandemic and now the market is pretty saturated with admins with little experience. Really tough for an admin to break into the ecosystem right now, especially for folks that aren't fresh out of college(cheap)

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Flows aren’t intrinsically bad…but admins doing a lot of flows without architectural oversight is an easy way to end up with a ton of tech debt.

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I’d try at other companies too.

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You will probably need to wait it out. Market is full of admins. Salesforce laid off a bunch of people and is continuing layoffs. Those people are flooding the market. I think H2 will look better.

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