Semper Salesforce: Become a Salesforce Military Champion
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The document promotes becoming a Salesforce Military Champion by supporting veterans through the Vetforce program. It outlines that Vetforce provides free training, classes, and career opportunities for military, veterans, and spouses within the Salesforce ecosystem. It encourages employers to hire veterans to fill their talent needs and notes resources like the Merivis Foundation that provide training and job placement assistance to veterans. The presentation promotes individuals and companies becoming champions by completing Trailhead trails on veterans, sharing opportunities, and creating internships or hiring veterans.
Semper Salesforce: Become a Salesforce Military Champion
- 1. Semper Salesforce Become a Salesforce Military Champion December 18, 2019 Casey Cheshire Founder & CMO Cheshire Impact @CaseyChesh
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- 5. Casey Cheshire Founder & CMO @CaseyChesh casey@cheshireimpact.com …10 …2,500 …221 Grateful to be here today!
- 7. Become a Vetforce Champion in your Company!
- 8. Today’s Mission • Ohana is the answer • Vetforce • Recruiting Veterans • Resources • Q&A
- 10. All things Ohana
- 11. Ohana extends beyond Salesforce Tower
- 12. All things Ohana Extended family Community that cares Different interests and causes
- 13. • Job training and career accelerator program for military service members, veterans, and spouses. • Connect virtual learners to free training, classes, and career opportunities within the Salesforce ecosystem. • Multiple certification paths- creating exciting next missions! Salesforce Military (Vetforce)
- 14. • Service members, veterans & spouses: Home base to skill up, network, and launch new career • Employers: Great source for certified military talent! • Nonprofits & Champions: Full of resources to promote and the place to point your Veterans & leaders toward! Salesforce Military is the HQ for everyone
- 15. The Case for Hiring Veterans
- 16. Address the Salesforce Talent Gap with Veterans 200,000 transitioning veterans 23% of Military Spouses are underemployed 1.6M Veterans and Reservists are underemployed 300K job postings for Salesforce related skills 2 of the top 10 jobs on were for Salesforce related skills (Indeed.com) $389B Salesforce Impact on GDP by 2010 (IDC) 1.9M Salesforce jobs created by 2020 (IDC)
- 17. of male & female recruits are minorities49.5% Hiring Veterans Drives Diversity
- 18. “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill” Herb Kelleher Founder
- 19. Veterans Get it Done
- 20. Resources
- 21. Merivis Foundation •Training, mentoring & job readiness for Veterans to jumpstart new careers in the Salesforce ecosystem •4 weeks virtual + 1 week onsite •Locations: Austin, Seattle, East TBD •Soft skills training on networking skills, resumes, Linkedin and social media and transitioning your military experience
- 22. Merivis Foundation Success • 200+ alumni from 5 cohorts, hired by Dell, Deloitte, Accenture, Google, Amazon, Capgemini, Polsource & more • Meet Sheldon Simmons • Navy Veteran who graduated Merivis Fall 2015 • From no tech experience to consultant in 2 years! • Golden Hoodie recipient Merivis.org
- 23. Cheshire Impact Free Pardot Training Classes for Veterans 12 class semesters Small group sizes Goal: Get Pardot Certified go.cheshireimpact.com/pardot_veterans
- 24. Informational Interviews Mutually amazing type of interview Veterans can research & learn an industry, Get a sense for a job & expand their network Challenge with Veterans can be pitching themselves, esp with mil skills Get them into an interview and get them to talk about what they did and listen for the experience that could translate into job soft skills Business: Pressure free evaluation for internships & future open positions
- 25. Conversations with Veterans Veterans & spouses have great stories! Unfortunately, most asked questions tend to follow stereotypes: - War stories, PTSD, politics,…”DYKA?” DO ask about: - Important lessons learned - Friends and relationships made - Experiences on the job & how it relates - Acronyms you don’t know
- 26. Trailhead Vetforce Training Truly impressive array of modules! -Vetforce -Military-Friendly Workplaces -Business Value of Equality -Military Veteran Recruitment Strategy -Hiring Military Spouses -Equality Ally Strategies
- 27. It’s time for Action!
- 28. Veteran Champion Action Plan 1. Learn - Complete Vetforce Trails on Trailhead 2. Encourage - …volunteer, & coach those just getting into Salesforce (informational interviews too!) 3. Share - Spread the word! Recruit internally & create a Veteran Action Team 4. Present - Meet with HR & leadership to present your case 5. Create – Create Internships and interview veterans 6. Hire – Look for veterans when hiring for full time positions.
- 29. Resources •Trailhead – trailhead.salesforce.com Search “veterans” •Vetforce - veterans.force.com •Merivis Foundation - merivisfoundation.org •Veteran Pardot Training - go.cheshireimpact.com/pardot_veterans
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