From Retail to Salesforce – Transfer your skills

The Retail industry, particularly high street shopping has unfortunately been hit by Covid -19 at a significant level, so we are seeing redundancies of more traditional roles and a shift towards retail technology as online shopping becomes the new norm.

This week explores how people have shifted their career from traditional retail roles into the Salesforce and technology space.

Listen to our podcast to learn more about retail technology, with Cathy McCabe, who took a journey from store manager, to operations manager to global IT Director for global fashion brands before launching her own retail technology product at Proximity Insight. Tune in here.

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Look out for our next Day in the Life story of Tom Lynds, who was made redundant as a retail manager, retrained and now works as a Salesforce administrator for a global brand.

Salesforce is a technology leader in the retail space. Find out more here:  https://www.salesforce.com/uk/solutions/industries/retail/overview/

So, what are the next steps?

You have a couple of options, you can choose to transfer skills into a retail role with a Salesforce customer, or you could retrain and repurpose your transferable skills to work in a brand new sector.

How can we help?

Looking to retrain and land your next job? Then join our Salesforce Admin Course starting in September. Applications are open until 24th August so don’t miss out! Our flagship course is sponsored by St James Wealth Management in EMEA and Validity in USA.

Can you benefit from career coaching? Would you like to tackle your imposter syndrome and get confident in a new outfit and job role? Yes! Then join our Accelerate your Salesforce Career Coaching Programme. Deadline for signing up is Wednesday 2nd August.

Do you have a background in Marketing?

Then look at our Salesforce Marketing Cloud course, sponsored by Accenture and in partnership with Salesforce’s Trailhead Academy. Our next cohort starts in October and early bird discount is available until 1st September!