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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Making a career in Salesforce.com as a consultant

Salesforce.com has three distinct product areas
  • Sales cloud
  • Service cloud
  • Custom cloud (force.com platform)

In my opinion Sales and Service cloud areas do not require much development skills, custom cloud does require coding skills in Apex and Visualforce.

Certification path:
The path to certification for a certified consultant is explained here : http://www.salesforce.com/services-training/training_certification/certification/

for certified consultant (CON201) , you need to pass certified administrator exam (ADM201)

there is a study guide on the website for each of these. you can start reading more about everything online as well as you can request basic book around Sales cloud
by going to this link : https://www.salesforce.com/form/trial/freetrial-bookoffer.jsp?d=70130000000Cs47

for projects / freelancing:
http://www.odesk.com/jobs/salesforce.com

for applying for job at salesforce.com partners , goto: http://sites.force.com/appexchange/results?type=Services
and sort by "certification" to sort by size of the organization. Use LinkedIn to see who is working there and apply through them.

Search for blogs and help resource at www.cloudgofer.com , also there are some books which can help.

Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud by Jason Ouellette

Hope this helps, feel free add your suggestion and/or questions in the comments area below.
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