MarCloud Academy for New Salesforce Talent

At MarCloud, we have always sought out the brightest marketing talent, attracting the best Salesforce marketing platform consultants, with expertise in development, data and solutions. We invest in MarCloud’s other growing areas too, such as leadership, sales, and business development.

Why?

Naturally, it's in our benefit to recruit the best, given we provide specialist consulting to our clients! However, it’s also in the interest of the industry at large because nurturing Salesforce talent helps maintain the highest standards of support for Salesforce tools.

Now, we’re taking things one step further.

The MarCloud Talent Academy

Before we dive into the details, it’s important to note that the vision behind MarCloud’s Talent Academy has always been a part of our business philosophy. 

The only difference now is that we are looking to formalise the academy to capture, grow and nurture that future Salesforce talent. The MarCloud Talent Academy's mission is to give future candidates a potential route to a career in Salesforce consulting, that may otherwise be blocked or barred by high barriers to entry.

There are three aspects to the program:

1. Nurturing existing skills

We employ people with essential base skills such as web development or proven initiative on Trailhead or otherwise. These people would typically not be able to get an immediate full-time role in a Salesforce position, but they show all of the characteristics of someone with a lot of potential. 

Our job is to expose new talent to problems that will enable and upskill them, whilst still providing value to the company with resources. 

2. Setting targets and expectations

While billable targets and expectations for academy recruits are a lot lower than a typical Delivery Consultant role, they are still set. This allows room to go slow, learn and create opportunities to improve the quality of service in the role. We encourage shadowing the team on calls to absorb as much knowledge as possible and work towards ‘graduating’ into a key position within the team.

From a client perspective, ensuring accountability through targets and deliverables ensures the standard of work delivered does not slip. Although, client accounts are always assigned an experienced and knowledgeable Lead Consultant, of course.

3. Room to grow

People in the MarCloud Talent Academy are given room to explore their interests in different Salesforce disciplines and grow into the role they choose. 

They might discover they are adept in coding or Marketing Cloud or Sales Cloud... It's up to them where they go next. We can guide them towards where think they are the best fit but ultimately, as long as they are providing value to our clients, they can move in any direction.

Lastly, we have dedicated academy resources, alongside leadership teams to shepherd the journey of our promising Salesforce talent. This isn’t a temporary recruitment drive, it’s a long-term program built for generating and nurturing careers!

Why MarCloud?

If this is the first time you’re visiting the MarCloud website, welcome! Here’s what you need to know about joining the MarCloud team, beyond the academy information shared above:

• We work with honesty, integrity, and respect for our team. We are a collaborative team of agile people who want to do the right thing by our clients and each other.

• Whether you love the office or prefer your setup at home, our main concern is getting results for clients and not physical presence in an office. 

• We respect our Consultants’ time so they can respect the time of our clients, as such, we trust them to be able to manage their time flexibly and work out what is best for them and their delivery.

• With our team across the UK and office-based, we meet in person as often as we can. We keep our hangouts informal - enjoying our team relationship!

• We offer private healthcare. If you're ever unwell, you can open an app and get access to a GP within 48 hours who can then refer you to a consultant if you need specialist support. There are tons of other benefits included too!

• We’re confident we have the best in the business and being able to work, collaborate, and learn from such professionals is a great benefit for ambitious future Salesforce talent.

Beyond the team experience, as a business, we’re a leader in the Marketing Cloud consultancy space. Our clients span multi-national companies across the globe and include a variety of industries. Our Salesforce AppExhange review score is testament to our reputation.

All this shameless self-promotion to say, when you come through the MarCloud Talent Academy, you can feel confident you’re kickstarting your Salesforce career!

If you or somebody you know is interested in creating a Salesforce career but you need an encouraging entry surrounded by years of experienced experts, send us a message. Alternatively, you can see the positions we’re actively recruiting for on our Careers page.