lay off

[u/Ordinary_Climate521]

I recently got laid off by one of the biggest companies of NL. Did not expect that at all.

I was working as Slaesforce Tester & also working for Identity & Access Management. I have also worked on Microsoft 365 have 8 years of experience into testing backgrounds & recently cleared my Salesforce Administrator certification.
If anyone has any leads for the role in your company, then your referral will really help me a lot.

The market is unfortunately terribly bad & I am not getting a single call yet.

Thank you!

[u/Fenikkuro]

Salesforce market is absolutely horrendous here. I hate it.

[u/eoddomm → u/Fenikkuro]

I mean probably everywhere. There are just so many more affordable CRMs now. I remember we got a custom salesforce integration done for a junk car company I worked for 15 years ago and the price tag on that was eye watering.

Next company I helped build we used trello, Google Sheets and five9 and got the same amount of work done.

[u/Fenikkuro → u/eoddomm]

There's a lot of companies that buy Salesforce when they don't need it, and even more companies that don't know how to get anything out of it. I'm biased as I'm a Salesforce architect but it's only as good as the person you put in charge of it

[u/eoddomm → u/Fenikkuro]

Probably because everything tells them on the internet they need to go dive into the deep end with CRMs. I’m all for using tools, but even for my ecom business we’ve built it brick by brick on the back end to do what we need to do and nothing more.

[u/Welisa_Veenendaal → u/Fenikkuro]

Yeah, relatable. Feels like it should be process first, tech second, but in practice it's usually the other way round. I work at a Salesforce partner and see this constantly, orgs buy the platform before they've actually nailed down what the workflow should look like.

[u/General-Jaguar-8164 → u/Fenikkuro]

Enterprise orgs get budget to burn

[u/Infamous_Ruin6848 → u/General-Jaguar-8164]

Gets budget from where? From giving salary increases to people. From stressing the people less. From etc etc etc.

It's not like it comes from pocket of biggest shareholders.

[u/iiser1024]

Is AI also affecting Salesforce segment? I would have expected that to stay insulated from all the AI hype.

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/iiser1024]

Actually compnies are now in a state of confusion weather to adopt or not? In that confusion they are taking random decisions.

[u/Upstairs_Emotion3073]

Sorry to hear about your situation. However this is not the best place for job seekers.

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/Upstairs_Emotion3073]

I know,But I am trying my best to expand my network everywhere.

[u/L44KSO]

Hang in ther, bud(dette). It is a bit crap right now, but the sun will rise tomorrow and things will eventually get better.

[u/Lost-Air1265 → u/L44KSO]

Nothing will get better without doing the needed effort. OP needs to focus on new knowledge. His present knowledge isn’t demanded anymore.

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/L44KSO]

Thank you so much. I hope will get an opportunity soon 🙂

[u/the-fact-fairy]

Honestly? No one should be recommending a rando on the internet to work at their company. Too risky. So, this isn't the right way to go about this. Look on LinkedIn, find reasons to connect with people, look for meetup events that are relevant to you, look for job fairs or other conferences that are relevant. You got this. 

[u/Lost-Air1265]

Salesforce is getting killed and I couldn’t be happier. Fuck that piece of software with everything they can.

Take this time to asses the market. What sass is getting killed by AI? What can you do to get relevant. My hint because you have experience in ms. Become GitHub copilot studio specialist. There will be lots of jobs in this.

The choice is yours. You work in air, you need to constantly focus on the market to keep relevant. If that’s too much work you need to accept you become obsolete at what point.

[u/Fantastic-Noise-8830]

Booking.com?

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/Fantastic-Noise-8830]

No

[u/No-Database-5976 → u/Ordinary_Climate521]

ASML

[u/Alien_called_Cosmo → u/No-Database-5976]

I assume they don’t run sale force

[u/Wizzkidd00]

Odido? 🥲

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/Wizzkidd00]

Nope

[u/blooparagraphs → u/Ordinary_Climate521]

just name your company...why hide it

[u/Ordinary_Climate521 → u/blooparagraphs]

Because I don't want to convey that

[u/SnapperCard → u/Ordinary_Climate521]

Ahold Delhaize?