Navigating Your Career with Mike Gerholdt - Wizardcast 75

While Mark Ross and Brian Kwong were hanging out at Midwest Dreamin, they took the opportunity to talk to the one, the only, the simply fantastic, Mr. Admin himself - Mike Gerholdt. Mike has been in the Salesforce ohana for a long time. First, he was Mr. ButtonClick Admin and ran an extremely popular blog and podcast about Salesforce. Mike joined Salesforce in May of 2014 as an Admin Evangelist. Show Overview A Mike Gerholdt Introduction 00:00 Standard Introduction 00:26 A Mike Joke 01:44 Navigating your Career with Mike Gerholdt 02:08 Are you a Star Wars or Smokey and the Bandit Kid 03:15 Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DQNFTB3 Why talking Careers is important to Mike 04:20 Puzzle Pieces versus Lego Blocks 08:20 What you SHOULD ask to a Mentor/Idol/Role Model about their Career 12:32 How do I become a Salesforce Admin? 14:55 What's the creativity and vision you bring to a job 17:00 Why building Sample Apps is important 19:30 What kind of Opportunities are there and Salesforce? 28:00 Why did Mike Gerholdt Join Salesforce 32:55 Gillian Bruces listens to the WizardCast! 41:00 Mike Gerholdt says Share this podcast 42:00 Outro "Very difficult doing this" 44:50 Links in This Show Survey: Smokey & Bandit or Star Wars 70s Child WizardCast Alexa Skill Smokey and the Bandit WizardCast Store T-Shirts & More HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share #WizardCast with your twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! https://ctt.ec/23f7u Participate In The Show! Share an IdeaExchange idea for our Ideas Highlight episodes! http://bit.ly/ideahighlight Share a question for Parker Harris http://bit.ly/parkerquestions Ways to subscribe to The WizardCast Click to Subscribe via iTunes/Apple Podcasts Click to Subscribe via Stitcher Subscribe via RSS FEEDBACK You can ask your questions, make comments, bad jokes, and your requests! Contact Us via Website Leave of Voicemail 608 492 0321 Email [email protected]   Affiliates & Sponsors Libsyn podcast hosting:  Get a free month with promocode: podmagic Audio and Music provided by: Cherry (Instrumental Version) (Josh Woodward) / CC BY 4.0 Sounds from: http://www.freesfx.co.uk