Zero to 100 - Salesforce Admin Course
Are you looking for more time, higher pay, or a better work life balance? A career in Salesforce may be what you've been searching for.Zero to 100 is a 6 month, part-time course that will teach you the Salesforce skills to start a more fulfilling life and career.
Course Breakdown:
Feel like you have no time, or no tech skills? No problem. Here is how we get you from Zero to 100.
For the first 6 weeks of Zero to 100 you'll be learning Salesforce from the ground up. We fully expect you to enter this course with zero knowledge of Salesforce.
You'll get all the answers to those bothering Salesforce questions like... What is the best way to get a Salesforce job? How do I start learning Salesforce? What does a career in Salesforce look like for me? Why does Salesforce have so many features? And which ones should I focus on?!
You will learn:
- What a Salesforce Admin does
- What a typical day of a Salesforce Admin looks like
- What sort of jobs can you get with a Salesforce Admin Certification
- Why all these complex Salesforce features exist, when to use them, and how they differ from each other
- The must-know skills and concepts for being a Salesforce Admin
Once you understand the ins and outs of Salesforce, like the difference between Org Wide Defaults and Org Level Security, you will spend the next 4 weeks building a Real World project:
- Applying what you have learned right away
- Work with a New Zealand Company working to develop a Salesforce solution custom made for them
- Working with a Salesforce team
As part of the project, you will be submitting technical documentation and a video presentation of your work. Our trainers have worked in the industry so you'll get useful feedback about how you can improve and be ready for the market!
This is a great chance for you to build up some experience and really see what being an Admin is like in real life. Plus, it provides an awesome talking point in interviews as this is real Salesforce experience.
Fresh out of your real-world project, you'll spend 6 weeks focusing solely on how to to pass the Salesforce Administrator certification and then actually sit your exam!
We start this section of the course by booking your exam within the Exam Period of the course to keep you accountable. We will cover the cost of your exam voucher and all other practice exams during this time.
On top of the usual weekly Workshop and Q+A trainer sessions you will sit multiple Salesforce practice exams, get our custom study guides, notes, dictionary, and videos.
There will be no shortage of material available so you can study in the way that best suits you! As well as this you can always message the trainers or your fellow cohort for help and questions at any time.
We spend the last part of the course getting you ready for the real deal. Your final 4 weeks will include:
- Practice interviews for Salesforce roles
- How to properly sell yourself
- Use LinkedIn to maximise your job offer potential
- Get prepared for the tech industry by learning in demand skills such as Agile Methodologies, JIRA, and more.
- Connect you to recruiters and companies that are looking for Salesforce talent!
Hear from, and talk to companies who are looking for Salesforce talent! We bring them in every week to speak exclusively to you about the careers available in the Salesforce eco-system.
This is your chance to network with a whole heap of Salesforce businesses looking to hire, and meet a whole bunch of awesome people.
It's a fantastic networking opportunity, and a great chance to get an inside look at companies you may be interviewing with at the end of the course.
Previous companies that have come to speak to students include:
- Salesforce
- Deloitte
- Accenture
- PwC
- Devianti
- Xero
- Lavabox
- and more...
Why Salesforce?
1. The demand
There's no doubt that Salesforce is blowing up right now in New Zealand.
With 4.2 Million new jobs predicted to be created
between 2019 and 2024, it's fair to say that there are more jobs than there are currently people with the skills to do them.
What's more, COVID has really corned the New Zealand Salesforce talent pool, forcing companies to begin looking more at local
talent to hire. That's great news for us locals!
This Forbes article has the following advice to graduates: "If you are a young graduate who has just entered the world of business
automation, good Salesforce training will solidify your position as a Salesforce professional in some of the best companies
in the world."
2. The pay
According to payscale.com, the average New Zealand salary for a Salesforce Developer is close to $90K, while Salesforce Technical Architects
earn anywhere from $140,000 - $300,000 per year. (Psst. It's even better if we look overseas!). The only limit to your salary
is how much you learn and your level of skills. It's simple!
3. It's a globally recognised certification
Once you have this certification, you can take it anywhere in the world. It's just as valuable here as it is in America,
the UK, Australia, Germany...everywhere is looking for Salesforce talent.
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FAQ
Want more information? Here are some frequently asked questions
Nothing! This course is designed for people who know absolutely nothing about Salesforce - we're starting from scratch. Zero Salesforce experience required!
Yes! This course focused on the first step in Salesforce certifications - the Admin Cert.
The Admin Certification is widely considered to be the first stepping stone in a Salesforce career, and is the doorway for many people with no technical background into an awesome tech industry.
This course requires zero coding or software experience. Once you have your Admin Certification, there's plenty of exciting career routes you can take! Perhaps you want to be a Salesforce developer and learn how to code? Maybe Marketing is more your thing? UI/UX design? Check out the range of career paths here.
This course is designed for those working full or part-time jobs already. You can expect to be putting around 10 hours a week towards this course. This leaves time for any work or personal commitments you have and general life activities (we love a good weekend adventure too!).
Each week is broken into 5 days of work (approximately 2 hours a day). Each day will include video snippets introducing that day's topics before getting into exercises and activities.
This 5 day structure is our recommended approach but as long as all of the work is submitted by Sunday night, the schedule is largely up to you.
All our content is pre-recorded, meaning that you can do everything at your own pace.
We'll do regular check-ins with you to see how you are getting along and how we can support you.
Absolutely! All of our sessions are recorded, so you can complete the course in entirely your own time.
We have noticed that our top performing students, and those who go on to land jobs at their dream companies, keep up with the course in live time, but it's completely up to you when and how you complete the course.
The Zero to 100 Salesforce Admin course starts on the 13th of March 2023 and runs for 6 months, ending in mid-August.
The course consists of 4 main parts.
Part 1 - Introduction to Salesforce. You'll spend 6weeks just getting to know Salesforce, and covering all the concepts of Salesforce for the first time. These 6 weeks will give us the skills needed for part 2.
Part 2 - The Project. You'll then spend 4 weeks working on a real-world scenario project. While these will be completed individually, we encourage students to work together to get speed up their learning and bounce ideas off one another.
Part 3 - The Exam. Once the project is done, we'll get straight into the exam. It's 6 weeks of exam prep, followed by a 2 to 3 week exam period. Exciting times!
Part 4 - Job Preparation. With your exam in the dust behind you, it's time to look forwards to your next steps. Whether it's a brand new job, or moving up in your current organisation, in the final few weeks we'll cover our top tips for starting an incredible new Salesforce career (and maybe even line you up with a job interview or two!).
Salesforce started out has a CRM platform (Customer Relationship Management) but as grown to include pretty much anything a business could possibly want to build and track.
Optimising a sales process? Check! Sending out marketing campaigns and emails? Check! Service desk? Check! Building a website that sells products? Check! AI functionality for predicting the next best product for a customer and generating new leads? Check!
Salesforce is all about automation, so there's a lot of work around for people who know how to use it. It's consistently ranked the world's #1 CRM system and is always growing.
Globally you'll recognise some pretty big names such as Spotify, Amazon Web Services, Toyota, The New York Post, Walmart Inc, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (GEICO).
In New Zealand, there's an extremely fast growing uptake on Salesforce. You might be familiar with some home names such as ANZ, KiwiBank, Frontera, MediaWorks, Spark, Ministry of Health, and Xero as some of New Zealand's largest Salesforce powerhouses. Not to mention the consulting partners including PWC, Datacom, Accenture, Deloitte, Davanti, SmartApps, GravityLab, and many, many more.
The total cost of the course is USD $1,200. That includes the cost of the official Admin Certification (valued at USD $200), official Practice Exam (valued at USD $100), and additional study materials, a real-world project as well as live access to a Salesforce Certified Instructor.
You'll also be a part of our exclusive NextWork community, where we run social and networking events and can meet alumni and mentors.
There sure is! We are working towards the Salesforce Administrator Exam.
The exam is tough, and many great Salesforce Admins fail it the first time around. This course is designed to walk you through the whole process and support you in every way we possibly can. We work on real-world projects, provide custom study guides, and put aside time to go over certified Salesforce practice exams.
You can find out more about the exam here.
In Summer of Salesforce, we are working towards the Salesforce Admin Certification.
This certification is widely considered to be the first stepping stone in a Salesforce Career. Whether your area of interest is in programming, marketing, design, or business analytics, the place to start is the Admin Cert.
Yes! The Salesforce eco-system was predicted to need around 3.3 million new jobs between 2017 to 2022, and we're on track to need much more than that already.
Salesforce Developers in particular in huge demand. The average salary for a junior Salesforce Developer in Australia is AU$135,150. The Salesforce Developer job market has a 206% annual growth relative to the developer market in the last 5 years! It's crazy!
Now is the absolutely the time to get into Salesforce if you're a programmer. It's on of the most sought after skills in the market, and will set you on an incredible and rewarding career path. You can find out more in this report here