@Kytreeswerving
I work for Salesforce as a Consultant. I mostly end up working for companies as an Admin/BA. I'm very confident most companies post job postings for Salesforce Dev's because they don't understand the difference between the two. I get called a Salesforce Developer all the time and I don't write code.
@tanyareed4321
Thank you for being real and talking about the things other won’t. Incredible advice from someone so ingrained in the ecosystem.
@93_til
IMO, to stand out as an admin, you need to know how to translate business requirements to solution design; solving as much as possible with declarative tools, and only bringing in development when necessary.
@derekc2912
I got the admin certification but couldn't land a Salesforce admin job. Had to do other jobs first for financial security... Hope I can continue my SF study soon and one day get into the ecosystem.
@KentPaul
Admins are important if you have a large team in the double digits. We have a 14 Salesforce person team with a combination of architects, developers and Admins: 3, 4, 7 respectively. Out of the 7 admins, 2 are full time admins, doing admin stuff and first tier Sfdc support, the other five serve as second tier support, scrum masters, and RFE development with some light coding.
@kyle_8036
Great post David. Additionally, given the increasing number of multi-cloud instances (i.e. Sales + Marketing, Sales + Commerce), as well as the introduction of Tableau, Mulesoft, etc. I see the growth of the Architect role to be even more in demand in the coming years.
@DaveRider719
Starting to prepare my developer cert after getting the sales cloud cert. Your Apex Academy is gold!
@jiyaadnaeem4802
Thanks as always David! Next time you worry if what you say is going to be make people mad, please post it anyway - truth needs to be heard, this helped me make my decision much easier to focus on development!
@TiffiniTravels
Insanely helpful! I am now getting my Developer Certification.
@jmhoskinson327
You changed my mind about the admin career path - 100% agree that anything an admin does a developer can do and often better. I had one of my developers learn Flow, and within a month he knew it better than I do. I would say that most developers are not very strong at requirements gathering and can struggle with solutioning if they haven't kept up with Salesforce products... Our org has legacy code that one developer built (before me!) to calculate business hours and SLAs because he didn't understand entitlements and milestones. Hence why the Salesforce Business Analyst role has been growing too.
@dannypegus7583
Agreed, but I see rather a swift to high demand on architects while coding is outsourced. Understanding Business value is more important than coding.
@JessicaHicks
Hmm. I just filled a role for a Business Analyst role requiring Salesforce focused. It’s true I have not seen any Salesforce admin roles. Thanks for the video. Love you using LinkedIn - it’s my virtual home. ☺️
@robkoch8730
Agree about the need for admins to stand out from the pack. We should learn at the very least enough coding to work effectively on an enterprise level team with developers and project managers. That's another trend we're seeing in Salesforce jobs (call for PM skills).
@LivinwithFinesse
I have been hesitating to committing to learn to code but this helps put things in perspective. Need to start planning my strategy
@mommymeyoga2117
Why do I see all Admin Jobs when I search "Salesforce Administrator" in Palo Alto California? Did you intentionally keep scrolling until you found secondary dev postings?
@addikt
Great take, David! I think that your 2nd recommendation (learning the entire portfolio) is something that a lot of people gloss over. Salesforce products are really designed to work together, but they don't always do so seamlessly. Knowing how to knit these services together to create end-to-end solutions is something that's in high demand. As for the death of the Administrator role, it's a shame, and borne from modern hiring practices. Similar to how job postings for "full stack" developers have become a bit of a meme, it seems that SF admins are suffering a similar fate. It really is semantics in the end. In many cases, "developers" transition from other languages or frameworks and jump directly into writing code, when clicks will perform, scale, and be far more maintainable than a coded solution.
@user-qt1bq5bw6i
No Kidding. I worked for 4 certifications (1 on the way) for associate, admin, platform app builder and advanced admin (on the way) only to realize this crushing reality. Hits harder when you already took a 1.3 year career gap. I feel so lost tbh.
@serhiystasiv6743
Thank you for confirming what I do feel here (outside of the US) as well. And thank you for the free week of your Apex Academy. Just in time!
@Alireq
Your youtube channel is like GOLD. You should get more subscribers :)
@Don-cq5fg