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Victory's avatar

This is quite interesting, slightly surprised that you put Trailhead & community events at the center, isn't the SF ecosystem so mature that you can probably build+prove expertise by doing projects etc. with solution partners and the like as well? I know Hubspot definitely hire a lot of Solution Partner folks and there are a lot of them so seems plausible?

Grant Varner's avatar

This is also a valid route, and honestly would probably help you improve your skills even more than just going to Community Events/Workshops

With that said, if your goal is to get a job, you should probably balance actually improving your skills for the job with meeting face-to-face with real people or promoting your work on LinkedIn to build a brand

Also to worth calling out that this is how I did it, but everyone’s path will be different

Health Otaku's avatar

Nice post! Curious, why did you decide to move from sales to se?

Grant Varner's avatar

Thanks! Glad you found it useful. I was an SE previously at Oracle, and it was a great fit for my skills. It felt like time to go back into it

Health Otaku's avatar

Never knew u were the SE at Oracle. So you moved from sales to SE.

Grant Varner's avatar

SE to Sales then back to SE