Hello everyone!
I am going for my SF Admin certification exam soon. I am going to enter the SF ecosystem at a tumultuous time but I believe it's as good as any to enter and climb my way up the ladder.
Any tips on how to navigate the job market, future certifications that can help me give the edge over my competition.
Any help would be much appreciated.
FYI, I'm based in London.
TIA

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Don't know if it's different in London, but here in Chicago it's...to put it mildly...not a great time to break into the ecosystem. If you're just starting your professional career, it's largely just a matter of applying to the right place at the right time and being able to sell yourself to an employer well. Admin cert will be required/minimum table stakes, and I'd suggest some of the general(BA, sales/service cloud) certs to help back up the case you make for yourself. If you're transitioning from another career, I'd lean into that experience heavily; were you previously an office admin that ran reports for your employer? Lean into and learn as much as you can about reporting/tableau/etc. Did you do fundraising for a nonprofit? Dig into nonprofit cloud and target firms that specialize in it. As a phone screener for my company, mid-career transitioning candidates that can tell a compelling story about how previous experience can be applied to being a Salesforce admin/consultant tend to be ones I pass to the next stage most often. The fresh/new/young candidates tend to largely be based on attitude/culture fit as much as anything. How that helps-good luck out there, it's not the golden days of just a few years ago out here!

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Thank you! This certainly helps.

It’s saturated ecosystem at least in US.

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