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I have been looking for a new opportunity and having trouble getting any traction. November and December seemed to be extremely quiet. Things are picking up a tiny bit but im starting to lose hope. I am currently employed full time as a Senior Admin but have been primarily doing Developer work for the past 5 years. Current employer is happy to get a cheap developer resource but is unable to pay me any more.

What are you guys seeing? Has anyone recently got any exciting offers?

Additionally, I am toying with an idea of learning some new skills to accompany my 10 years' experience of Salesforce. What do you guys recommend learning?

It’s a tough market in tech and tech-adjacent industries. I’m betting it will slowly improve over the next 6 months when those affected by layoffs find their next job and companies gain confidence in the market.

If you want to be a developer, a great thing you can do (apart from studying salesforce development) is learn a different language and framework. Setup a .net API and website, and deploy it to AWS - you’ll start to build a mental model of how all the different pieces behind web applications work.
I’m honestly not sure what their plan is in terms of product and haven’t loved the product roadmap quarterly presentations. We don’t have a good history with Einstein (for example) and I haven’t been convinced their infrastructure is ready for AI developments, especially depending on # of integrations

I could see more companies outsourcing development work while SF just focuses on the AI-data level. But who knows AI’s long-term impact on SF’s growth.