Has anyone done the Supermums Salesforce Course?

[BelBabe]

Quick bit of context. I currently work from home full time as recruiter, on 35k PA, age 34.
I've been looking at a bit of a career change, my job is OK but I'm in rut and can't see any real career progression where I am and to be honest I don't even know if it's a career want to progress.

Have been doing some research and have come across SuperMums, basically you pay around £2000 for a five month course to become a Saleforce administrator and they also provide a lot of career coaching, a job placement and help you get interviews once qualified.

I actually searched Mumsnet for Supermums and found it mentioned on a few threads but would love to find someone who has actually done the course. They make it seem as if as soon as you're qualified you'll work straight in to a fully flexible work from home role on 60k, but I'm really not too sure how realistic that is

My gut is

No
No
No
Avoid at all cost

Just following. I’ve also been looking at this to do whilst on mat leave hopefully, I work in project change today and fancy a sidewards move but can’t afford a massive drop in salary really so keen to know what starting salaries have been etc.

Sounds too good to be true, so it probably is

Definitely sounds too good to be true and I would definitely avoid!

It’s doesn’t even sound too good to be true

a course costing £2000!

Sales force have just been making huge redundancies so I’d be wary of checking there are jobs before paying for a course. The super mums bit sounds like a scam.

Let me guess, you “earn £60,000” getting other mugs mums to pay £2000 for a course.

I'm going to say no to this one. Purely because we had a candidate in my last role who was mocked and her CV was torn to shreds by the office for having "Supermums" on it.

She wasn't invited for an interview. But the "Supermums" joke continued for a good 6 months afterwards. 😱

There was also a post on LinkedIn about how it's all a bit scammy and anyone with it just proves they're gullible and lacks awareness. Their words, not mine.

Don't do it!

Surely as a 'recruiter' you would be wise to these sort of scams offers?

I never fail to understand how gullible some people are.

Supermums are a registered Salesforce trainer on the Salesforce website so I doubt it’s a scam but agree that perhaps the optics aren’t great and you’d be better off doing training for more tech related role at a uni or somewhere with better name, Salesforce also list “Revolent” as a trainer OP.

Baffling isn’t it?! A recruiter asking about this!

Why doesn't Salesforce recruit and train staff? I'm confused. Or do people buy the software and then need someone to run it?

I don't get why everyone thinks it's a scam? 2k for a 3 month technical course with a decent amount of live tuition time sounds about par for the course?
Salesforce admin pretty high demand and a good way into a tech career. It depends if that's of interest to you op.
I have no idea if the company is good and agree the name is crap! There will probably be many other companies offering similar.

@OneFrenchEgg the latter. Salesforce will have consulting but the software is so widely used and most companies don't have people from Salesforce itself adminning their set up

But I also don't think 60k with no experience except the course is realistic but if you're good at it might go up quite quickly?

Oh that makes more sense thanks. summer

Salesforce provides free training on their Trailhead site, at least in the US. As a manager i wouldn't consider anyone with "Mums" of any sort in their "qualifications".

Supermums salesforce sounds like such a scammy name. The PP saying their office was laughing at it doesn't surprise me - I would not want that on my CV.

Free Salesforce training here:
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/credentials/administratoroverview/

It's Developers we struggle to recruit, but would not generally hire anyone without hands on industry experience.

We do have one Admin who retrained using Trailhead, got experience working free for a charity, joined us as a contractor and is now permanent.

I would suggest you research salaries local to you, it varies a lot but is usually well paid.

It is a legit Salesforce initiative, not a scam.

but £60k work from home is an average. To be honest, I cross paths with a fair few Salesforce consultants; and some of them make a lot more than that - so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the average. But they absolutely can’t promise flexibility or work from home; because that’s down to the client - and in my experience; it’s anything but work from home and family friendly.

Fun, if you like the hotel life and a new challenge often; and meeting new people - but let’s face it; big companies paying £££ for Salesforce want it up and working QUICKLY, want to see the people who are implementing it, and the good money comes when you’re burning the midnight oil because the project is running behind or someone else has tucked it up and you’re saving the day.

I do passionately hate the name; and I suspect you’d do a lot better to get Salesforce experience elsewhere and use that.

@FiveHundredDucksWentOutOneDay You are talking about Consultants, there are also SF admins who are generally permanently employed by companies internally. It's not the same role

Honestly no. That's not the kind of qualification any company is going to look for in a system admin, even for Salesforce.

I work for a competitor to SF.

So what is the best route to become a SF admin?

Yes, that is what generally happens. Initial setup is usually consultants, not necessarily from salesforce, them admin and development is taken over by IT.

Almost every Salesforce admin I know had their first job as a sideways drift from either a business or IT role. So a sales support admin, service advisor, IT something where they support a system which migrated to Salesforce, or business analyst who ended up with SF admin work