Launch Your Salesforce Career: Newbie to Paid Professional

Welcome to your future career in Salesforce! In this lecture we will go over what you can expect from this course.

Why start a career in Salesforce? In this lecture I will be covering all the reasons on why you will want to pursue a career in one of the fastest growing tech industries.

In this lecture I will be talking about what your end goal is for pursuing a career in Salesforce and setting these four types of goals:
1. Knowledge/experience goals
2. Job role goals
3. Compensation goals

4. Work life balance goals

In this lecture I cover the job opportunities that are available in a career in Salesforce.

In this lecture I go over the basics of using Trailhead and how you can use it to improve your Salesforce admin and developer skills. This will help you a ton as you go through this course.

In this lecture I go over the pros and cons of doing consulting or permanent work and some major considerations with each one.

In this lecture I will be helping you set up your developer org of Salesforce. This will enable you to follow me along in Salesforce and through the future tutorials. Here is the link to get your own FREE developer org:

In this lecture we will cover the differences between apps, objects, records and fields. I'll also go over the similarities that Salesforce has with a standard database structure and the easy way to remember how objects, records and fields work in Salesforce.

Understand the differences between Salesforce Lightning and Classic versions. As well, you will see the big differences between these two interfaces and which one you want to use.

In this lecture you'll learn about the Setup Menu in Salesforce and how to use it to navigate around Salesforce. I'll be covering this in Lightning and Classic version.

In this video I talk about Salesforce objects and I walk you through creating your first custom object and all the moving parts and pieces that go into that.

This is part 1 of 3 lectures on becoming a security expert in Salesforce. Security might seem overwhelming but understanding the different pieces of it will have it all make sense. Roles explains how users in Salesforce can see records depending on who owns them.

In this lecture we cover in depth how to create and assign permission sets so you can customize the security of your organization to the fullest.

In this lecture we will learn about what page layouts are and all the different ways to customize them so you can personalize user experiences in Salesforce.

In this lecture we will learn about how to assign layouts dynamically so you can customize user experiences.

In this lecture we will learn about how to use record types to boost your org security to another level!

In this lecture we will review all the different data types for fields and how to create your first field and set the security and layouts for that field. By the end of this lecture you will have a strong understanding of the different types of fields you can use with objects.

In this lecture I will be covering what field dependencies are in Salesforce and how to create and edit them.

In this lecture we will learn how to use formula fields to take your data needs to another level.

In this lecture we will be talking about how to create data relationships between different objects and how to use lookup and master-detail fields to accomplish that.

In this lecture we will go over how to learn how to bulk upload data into Salesforce with the Data Wizard tool. Every admin should have basic knowledge of this tool and how it works, and then from there you can become a data wizard yourself.

In this lecture we will cover how to import data into Salesforce with Data Loader. You will learn how to install data loader on your computer, how to run it, and how to perform mass data updates and imports with this powerful tool. 

In this lecture we will learn about how to understand and visualize your data with reports. We will cover how to create reports and report types. As well we will cover the basic fundamentals of report manipulation.

In this lecture we will learn about how to use basic and advanced filtering to customize your reports to handle business needs and data needs.

In this lecture you will learn how dashboards work, how to create them, configure them, and add advanced filtering on them.

In this lecture you will learn about how to create basic, powerful automation with workflow rules.

In this lecture you will learn how to improve your automation skills to another level using Salesforce process builder.

In this lecture you will learn how to create flows and you will understand the basics between screen and automation flows, as well as the elements that make up a flow.

In this lecture you will learn the best practices behind change management in Salesforce, the differences between Salesforce's dev environments, and how to push/validate your changes between sandboxes.

In this lecture you will learn about what validation rules are and how to create them to help with data cleanliness.

In this lecture you will learn about the basic structure of how companies manage their data with CRMs, so you can better understand the object structure in Salesforce.

In this lecture I will teach you about:
1. How to best optimize your LinkedIn profile so recruiters FIND YOU

2. How to job search on LinkedIn

3. My tried and proven technique on networking to land your dream job

In this lecture I will walk you through on how to use Trailhead and Success.Salesforce.Com to build your network of Salesforce professionals and how to use that to your advantage when looking for a career in Salesforce.

In this lecture I will cover Salesforce's biggest conferences, what each one focuses on and the MOST important one you'd want to attend.

In this lecture we will talk about overcoming the hurdle of having no job experience with Salesforce.

In this lecture I will be covering the essentials of a Salesforce job interview.

Here are my closing thoughts for this course.