Two hundred applications sounds like a great problem to have. It isn’t.

I had a conversation last night with a hiring manager whose internal recruiting team is good at what they do. They fill roles consistently, they know the business, and they move fast. But when a Salesforce technical role opens up, the process breaks. His in-house recruiters don’t have the technical expertise to properly screen and assess specialized Salesforce applicants and resumes. In some cases they use AI for keyword matches, without any understanding of what those words actually mean in delivery. They are great at filling general roles, but are unable to properly screen and qualify Salesforce architects.

What’s happening in the Salesforce talent market makes this harder, not easier. Bootcamps have trained a lot of people quickly, and there’s a genuine surplus of early-career talent in the ecosystem right now. Post a role and you’ll feel the volume immediately. What you won’t feel, at least not at first, is the absence of the person you actually needed.

Experienced Salesforce professionals, the ones who can architect a solution, lead a complex implementation, or walk into a room and translate a business problem into a platform decision, aren’t in that pile. They’re employed, they’re comfortable, and they’re not spending Sunday nights refreshing job search alerts. They’ll entertain the right conversation, but they’re not coming to you. They have to be found, and you have to know what you’re looking for when you find them.

Volume feels like momentum. Usually it’s just a sorting problem with a high cost attached to it.

If you’re a hiring manager navigating a Salesforce search right now, or a senior practitioner who’s open to the right conversation, I’d welcome the chance to connect.

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