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💃 So...You're Getting a Junior Salesforce Resource... 🕺

💃 So...You're Getting a Junior Salesforce Resource... 🕺

...And They're Your Responsibility 😳

Salesforce ChaCha
September 07, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! Your Salesforce workload is too much!

But your prayers have been answered 🙏! Your company is hiring a junior resource 😃!

Wait, what 👀? A junior resource?

What is a peon, with their admin cert and little-to-no real-world experience, going to bring to the table?

And you’re responsible for them 😳?!?!

Your concerns are valid 💯. And this is an incredible opportunity to augment your own career 😍!

Let’s cover all these things ⬇️

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💃 (Some of) Your Concerns Are Valid 🕺

💃 But Here’s the Benefits 🕺

💃 Do These Things! 🕺

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(SOME OF)YOUR CONCERNS ARE VALID

🫣 It will take YOUR time and effort to onboard and develop the junior new hire.

🫣 You will repeat yourself. A LOT. All the time!

🫣 There will be significant double effort!

You do → They do → You correct → They do.

This cycle will be a daily occurrence! You will need 2x, 4x, 8x the time to complete a task together, versus you doing it yourself!

😓

BUT HERE’S THE BENEFITS

👍 Leadership

Emotional Intelligence. Accountability. Strategy. Humility. Effective Communicator.

These are just a few leadership qualities. All of these, and more, will contribute to your successful development of a junior resource 🫡.

👍 Management Experience

Management isn’t for everyone, but it’s beneficial to get a taste of it 👅.

You’ve been in roles where you have a backstop, aka a manager who is responsible for catching any of your falling plates. You being that plate-catcher for someone else is Management Experience 😅.

This also means YOU are accountable for THEIR work, so you’ll want to double-check important stuff, like their solutions going into Production.

👍 Delegate

Delegation is a superpower 🦸!

It is also a skill that must be developed over time. A junior resource is the perfect opportunity to strengthen your delegation muscles 💪!

And eventually, that junior resource 👶 ain’t gonna be so junior anymore 👨‍🦳 - they will be making valuable contributions that will free you up to do bigger, better things 😊!

These are HUGE benefits.

Resume-worthy.

That’s because they’re challenging. It will not be a comfortable experience 😅, but totally worth it 🙌!

DO THESE THINGS!

✅ Kindness and Patience

When developing your new junior resource, plan for at least 9 months of putting on your patience pants👖.

This is as much for you as it is for the junior resource. Walking in, knowing this is closer to a marathon🚶‍♂️ than a sprint 🏃‍♂️ is a good mindset.

✅ Make Them Drive 🛞

You’ll have to initially explain stuff, but utilize your opportunities to make the junior resource do the thing- create the custom object, apply report filters, or update page layouts.

They’ll stumble, at first.

You’ll need to tap into your patience reserves, but this method pays off big in the long term, by setting the right expectations with the junior, and getting them in the habit of ⬇️

✅ “Show Me!”

Make the junior resource show you what they’ve done.

Pull up the screen, enter an input, monitor the thing, and review and validate the output.

This is more good expectation and habit setting, as well as validation that the junior is putting their money where their mouth is 😉.