The Salesforce Community is made up of students, innovators, experts and game-changers. These professionals use their Salesforce skills to define new paths to success in their careers, businesses, and their communities. It’s the willingness to help others that makes the Trailblazer community so unique. Their mindset is, why spend the time carving a successful career path to have no one follow in your footsteps?
From having common questions answered, to local meetups across the globe, and blogs offering thought-leading content. The Trailblazer Community is the perfect place for connecting with millions of like-minded Salesforce professionals. The community provides career advice and help, inspiration, and a path to Salesforce success. If you’re a Salesforce professional and aren’t already involved within the Community, then there’s no better time than the present to get started.
Here are five ways in which the community can advance your Salesforce career and improve your success.
Community Group Meetups
With over 700 community groups across the Trailblazer community, there is something for every kind of Salesforce professional. Attending local or virtual community meetups provides Salesforce professionals with one of the best opportunities, the chance to network.
Community meetups offer you the chance to network with those who have similar interests, operate in your region, and with a similar skillset. The groups are organised by Salesforce users. The purpose of these meetups is for individuals to share knowledge, ideas, and best practices on how to get the most out of Salesforce.
The great thing about these meetups is that you can choose the best ones to suit your current needs.
Answers
Ask or answer a question in the valuable Answers section in the trailblazer community. Being able to source support from a global community of Salesforce users is incredibly beneficial, regardless of whether you’re a novice or an expert.
98% of questions receive an answer from community members with 100% receiving an answer in less than 48 hours. Some trailblazers go above and beyond for their community, becoming significant contributors and achieving Salesforce MVP status.
Trailhead Help and IdeaExchange
If you can’t find the answer you are looking for using the Answers page, visit Trailhead Help. This is a self-service help centre with a library of useful articles. It’s a great port of call to help with any number of Salesforce related issues.
Trailblazers have some of the best insights and ideas for improvements to the Salesforce platform. In the IdeaExchange, Salesforce professionals openly share their ideas and vote on other community member’s ideas. Occasionally, these ideas are implemented, and changes are made in order to improve the platform.
Collaboration Groups
Collaboration Groups offer another space to connect with peers. Topics vary widely ranging from advanced code to surviving as a working parent. Employees of Salesforce lead groups helping customers with everything from getting started, to meetups.
Salesforce MVPs
MVPs are professionals who are recognised by Salesforce for their outstanding contributions to the Salesforce community. Learn from and with, over 200 product experts. Salesforce MVPs can provide answers, thought-leadership, mentorship, and inspiration to users and customers across the globe. Connect with Salesforce MVPs on Twitter, and check our SalesforceQA series for interviews with a range of Salesforce professionals.
If you are a talented Salesforce professional looking to take the next step in your career, get in touch today!
