I graduated college a little over a year ago and started working at a big four firm in salesforce consulting. I have 2 certs (admin and app builder) + vlocity/“salesforce industries” developer cert. I’ve been in both functional and technical projects over the last year, but don’t really love the implementation space. I know I don’t have a ton of experience so far but wanted to see feasibility of jumping to a solution engineer role at salesforce with only 1 year exp to help pivot. Thanks!

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Well of course you don't want to do implementation- it's long days and tedious, boring work... BUT it's a great way to learn.

At 1 YOE, you'd be coming in as a demo engineer, which isn't that great of a position.

In my opinion, the best career path is to stay in implementation for another year or two. You'll learn more and you don't look like a job hopper. Most importantly, there are very different expectations for experienced goes than new grad hires in terms of knowledge base, communication skills, and general professionalism... at 1 year into your career, navigating that will very likely eat you alive.

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S2, I'm not trying to be negative about the position. I just think that a career switch at 1 YOE would either see OP stuck in technical, behind- the- scenes work - the exact work OP is looking to leave behind - or put OP in a position to fail. It would be best for now to seek out client facing opportunities in design, strategy, etc at their current firm they've built a rapport with - OP would have less career risk and more coaching this way.

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Hi OP, I am actually looking into the consulting partner program with SF and was wondering if you would be willing to give me some info?? I can dm you

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