Focus on People: Jeff DeLucas is a Salesforce consultant in New York City where he works for a consulting company specializing in Salesforce implementations for mainly financial services and healthcare clients.
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Focus on People: Sarah Amin — Salesforce Senior Consultant & Solution Manager
Sarah Amin is a real example of how you can switch to a Salesforce career. After starting her working life as a biochemist, she now has become a Salesforce consultant and solution manager.
Focus on People: Mony Kankanala – Learning Salesforce by volunteering
Mony Kankanala is volunteering as a Salesforce/CRM consultant for the non-profit sector. His journey with Salesforce is unique and a true inspiration for those who are still thinking if they should start a career in Salesforce. Let’s see how he managed to organize his learning process and getting certified.
Beyond Certifications: Blazing Trails and Changing Lives in Appalachia
Beyond Certifications:Blazing Trails and Changing Lives in AppalachiaDuring a visit to West Virginia in 1963, President John. F. Kennedy noted with admiration that “the sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia… but the people always do.”Kennedy’s words might well be extended to much of Appalachia, a region fraught for decades by economic decline and the myriad problems poverty brings: drug addiction, health problems, and, at times, despair.Yet, in spite of… Read More
A Solution Architect’s Take on Lightning
Russell O’Brienis a Salesforce Solution Architect with a depth of experience in the Computing industry from mainframe and client server to cloud and mobile. He has operated his own Integration Consultancy and has also had extensive involvement in Quality Assurance including Agile Testing. Russell currently lives in Australia and has 13 Salesforce certifications. Lightning Component Interview with Russell O’Brien In recent times much has been published about Salesforce “Lightning” technology…. Read More
Focus on people: Veronika Peycheva – Learning By Doing
Here is another interview with a Focus on Force community member, Veronika Peycheva. She shares her experience of working with Salesforce of learning by doing and getting certified.
Focus on people: A Salesforce journey of Solution Architect Chris Rolfe
Recently, we did another interview with a Focus on Force community member who shared his experience of working with Salesforce and getting certified. Meet Chris Rolfe, an architect working in the non-profit and education sectors. Chris Rolfe tells us about his journey to becoming a Salesforce solution architect.
Focus on People: Rob Kaplan
Rob Kaplan is another successful Salesforce learner who is willing to share his experience with the Focus on Force community. He is a Salesforce senior administrator and business analyst, as well as the co-leader of a Salesforce user group. For his latest certification, he studied using the usual resources and combined it with a social activity that exercises other learning styles. Continue reading to find out more about Rob’s learning process.
How Salesforce Certifications connect to employability and earning potential
How do certifications connect to employability and earning potential? Why should millennials should consider SalesForce certifications as part of their education and future career? Salesforce predicted their technology will create 3.3 million jobs across their ecosystem by 2022 and demand for Salesforce experts is growing and growing. Salesforce careers will become increasingly popular in the coming years and appeal to recent graduates or those looking to change their careers. Thankfully,… Read More
Focus on People: Salesforce in Dubai
We always want to hear and share successful Salesforce stories. By getting to know people who have had experience working with the platform, you can find out how Salesforce can help you grow in your future career. This time we spoke with Kim Carlo Noceda, a Senior Salesforce Developer in a consulting company in Dubai. As a senior Salesforce Developer, his role is to provide solutions and build the system… Read More
Mass Download Attachments Tool
Every year Salesforce has 3 releases which are full of new and interesting features. However, every once in awhile, Salesforce decides to retire a well known feature. This is going to be the case with Winter ‘18. As part of the release, we will be saying ‘adios’ to Attachments and ‘hello’ to Files as the main supreme for all docs, images, etc. Along with that comes some challenges and questions –… Read More
Richard Clarke – Expertise Matters
Richard Clarke is a Salesforce Consultant and runs his own Salesforce Consulting company called Artisan Consulting. He currently lives in Australia, and has 22 Salesforce certifications. Find out more about his extensive experience and journey below. How and why did you get started with Salesforce? My journey with Salesforce started in 2007. I was running my own business as a Microsoft Gold partner based out in New Zealand, and we… Read More
Validation Rules: Salesforce’s Hidden Figures
Validation rules can be a powerful tool to help maintain data integrity in systems. They’re custom logic tests you define so data has to meet certain standards or format before being saved. The test is run and returns either true (there is an error, do not save the record) or false (validation succeeded, carry on). In the case of an error, a message will display on the screen, the user… Read More
Creating Validation Rule Formulas – A Quick Tutorial
This tutorial covers some basic functions and logic that are useful when creating formulas in Salesforce. The examples below specifically refer to Validation Rule formulas, which can sometimes behave slightly different from other formulas in Salesforce. When writing a new formula or validation rule, I always like to have a tab open with a “formula cheat sheet”, like this one. Remember: Validation rules prevent records from being saved when the result… Read More
