Talent Hub Talk

In today's episode, we're joined by Waruna Buwaneka, a Salesforce CTA and Enterprise Architect.  Waruna talks us through his education and early career, including his initial exposure to consulting and some of his early lessons. We discuss what Waruna learned from working in a family-run business for several years and how he had a varied and broad role when he returned into the consulting world, a...

In today's episode, we are delighted to be joined by Chris Pearson, an Enterprise CRM Applications Director. Chris talks us through his early career, how he came to work with the Salesforce platform, and what the transition into leadership was like for him. We discuss the importance of still staying close to the technology as your responsibilities and teams grow, and what changes when you manage b...

In today's episode, we catch up with long-term Talent Hub friend, USA-based Salesforce Recruiter, Christopher Hopper, for a chat about Salesforce recruiting in the current market. We look at both the USA and ANZ markets and delve into topics such as what’s happening with Salesforce salaries, the current timeframes to fill Salesforce roles, and whether there is a demand for industry-specific produc...

In today's episode, Ben answers the questions he's asked most frequently, such as is there currently an oversupply of available candidates? Are companies offering employer-sponsored visas for overseas applicants? And what exactly is a "hidden" job market? We hope you find this insight useful and that you enjoy the episode!

In today's episode, we’re joined by Martin Vyskocil, a Salesforce CTA and Associate Partner at IBM in the UK. Martin talks us through his early career, how he came from a non-I.T. background initially and explains how working in different sales support manager roles has actually benefited him in his Salesforce career. Martin explains how he first came to work in I.T., why he felt the company gave...

In today's episode of Talent Hub Talk, we’re joined by Anita Hedges, Social Impact Lead for Merkle in New Zealand. Anita provides insight into her early career, how she came to work with Salesforce, and what she had initially focused on. We discuss how she came to focus on sustainability before stepping into the Social Impact Lead role and why this was important to her. Anita talks us through Net...

In today's episode, we're joined by Srini Munagavalasa, a Vice President for the Salesforce COE at MUFG Financials and the author of the Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook. Through the episode, we discuss how Srini moved into customer-facing business engagement roles, having started his career as a Developer in SAP. We look at what has made him passionate about the role of a Business Analyst, wh...

In this week's episode, we cover the results of Talent Hub's annual ANZ Salesforce Survey, of which Part 2 focuses on the results from Salesforce managers. Click here to download your copy of the ANZ Salesforce Market Survey! In this podcast episode, listen to Ben's response to the data, what he believes that it means and why, and how it compares to what he's seeing on the ground day to day. We lo...

In this week's episode, we cover the results of Talent Hub's annual ANZ Salesforce Survey, of which Part 1 focuses on the results from Salesforce professionals, followed by next week, where we bring you insights from Salesforce managers. Click and download your copy of the ANZ Salesforce Market Survey! In this podcast, listen to Ben's response to the data, what he believes that it means and why, a...

In today's episode of Talent Hub Talk, we’re joined by Anand Narasimhan, the CTO at S-DOCS with 15 years of experience previously working for Salesforce. He was the 11th person to become a Salesforce CTA globally and has sat as a judge on numerous CTA Review Boards, including being involved in judging the first 10 CTAs ever to pass. Anand shares his insights into how he first came to work in the S...

In today's episode of the Talent Hub Talk, we are delighted to be joined by Wendy Zveglic, a Senior Manager of Solution Engineering at Salesforce. Wendy talks us through how and why she transitioned from a successful career in finance to becoming a Solution Engineer at Salesforce, without prior experience in an IT role. She explains what the first few months were like, what she felt Salesforce saw...

In today's episode of the Talent Hub Talk, we are delighted to be joined by David Sinclair, Founder of CROxCRM, who has a wealth of experience in the Salesforce ISV space, and is currently helping product businesses holistically maximise their potential. Through the episode, David provides insight into his early career and when he was first exposed to the ISV model, plus how he's seen other techno...

In today's episode, we are delighted to be joined by Jordan Baucke, a Salesforce Technical Architect based in Denver. Jordan explains how he first came across Salesforce in 2008, what interested him about opportunities in the ecosystem back then and why he has always found his way back to Salesforce after running his own startups or venturing into the world of Crypto. Jordan talks through the diff...

In today's episode, Ben shares a quick update on the market and what he has seen in the last quarter, January to March 2023. He touches on the contract space, the impact he has seen on the market following pockets of redundancies made within the quarter, how consultancies are currently hiring for projects, and how Salesforce salaries are tracking Our aim is to give some context and commentary as w...

In today's episode of the Talent Hub Talk , we are delighted to be joined by Neha Nagori, a Salesforce CTA based in Dubai. Through the episode, Neha provides insight into her education and how she was assigned to a Testing role when she moved into the workforce, which made her consider moving overseas for further study and to retrain. Neha shares how she did find her way into a Salesforce Develope...

In today's episode, we are excited to be joined by Christopher Hickman and Tiffany Devlin-Drye to discuss the power of being and having a mentor in the Salesforce ecosystem. Chris and Tiffany are both working as Solution Architects and have deep expertise in CPQ. Through the episode, we discuss how they first came in contact, what made Tiffany stand out to Chris, as someone he wanted to invest tim...

In today's episode, we are delighted to be joined by Joey Chan, Salesforce MVP and the Founder of Cloud Jedi. Joey shares what first interested him in a career in IT, how he got started in the Salesforce ecosystem, and what encouraged him to start his own business only one year into his full-time working life. We discuss the Salesforce ecosystem in the Philippines, how he differentiates his busine...

In today's episode, we are delighted to welcome back Emily McCowan, Salesforce CTA and Public Sector Solutions Lead. Since the last time Emily was on the show, she has successfully passed the CTA review board, so we unpick her journey from the beginning to now. We look at the different roles Emily has held, why she has doubled down on working in the consulting space more recently, how her CTA jour...

In today's episode, we are excited to be joined by Sima Samara, Senior Salesforce Developer and the recipient of the Golden Hoodie at Dreamforce 2022. Sima shares her brave and inspiring story, from studying for 6 years to be a Pharmacist to arriving in the Netherlands as a Refugee and working as a Cleaner, before finding Blue Road Academy, where her Salesforce journey started. Sima talks us throu...

In today's episode, we are delighted to be joined by Daniel Sanchez, Co-Founder of 21b, a Slack Consulting business. Daniel talks us through his early career, his roles in the Salesforce ecosystem, where he first worked with Slack, and if he saw the Salesforce acquisition coming. Daniel shares where the idea for 21b came from and what he has seen post-acquisition that has encouraged him to build a...

In today's episode, I am delighted to be joined by Nadina D. Lisbon, a Salesforce CTA and Enterprise CRM Architect in the US. Nadina provides insight into why she pursued an education in IT, how she started her career with Salesforce and what some of her early practices were that set her up for success. We discuss certain career moves that Nadina has made and how she has been strategic with decisi...

In today's episode, we welcome back Sam Hoult, the Founder of Dataimporter. Sam was on the show around 12 months ago, just as he was launching the product and before he had paying customers. We invited Sam back on the show to hear how the last 12 months have been, what he has learned, how the business has grown and his plans for the future. Sam is building the business in public, so we recommend f...

In today's episode, we are delighted to be joined by Georgii Saveliev, a Salesforce CTA and Specialist in Salesforce Industries, Communications Cloud. We discuss Georgii's initial interest in IT, how his Salesforce journey started and what excited him about the opportunity to join Vlocity back in 2018. Georgii passed the CTA review board while employed by Salesforce, but while specialising in Vloc...

In today's episode, Ben shares some insight into how he sees things taking shape in the ANZ Salesforce market this year.

In today's episode, we look back on some of the highlights from 2022. Thank you to all of our awesome listeners and amazing guests, we hope you have enjoyed the episodes as much as we have. Topics discussed: (00:48) Entrepreneurial Spirit & Goal Setting; (06:31) Giving Back To The Community & Helping Others; (11:59) The Salesforce Community & Togetherness; (17:07) Mental Health & Maintaining a Wor...