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My name is Maria and I’m a consultant at Perficient I recently transitioned into a
team lead role and so I work with customers on a daily basis implementing Salesforce.
What I love most about my role at Perficient is that I can do something new every single
day. One day I may be dealing with a customer trying to find a solution to their problem
the next day I can be working with a peer trying to find that solution. The following
day might be trying to help somebody else solve that same problem. There so much to
do at Perficient it’s different every day that I just love to do it. I came to Perficient
straight out of college so one of the things that I had most on my mind was how will I
fit into a completely different culture that I’ve never experienced before going straight
out of college and the first thing that drew me to working at Perficient was our culture.
There was something about it that I couldn’t really put my finger on but that drew me to
want to work at a place that I will really love. When I first started with Perficient
I didn’t know anything about Salesforce so Perficient put me through a training program
that they had set for us. It was me and a group of other consultants that all started
together and we really worked together trying to help each other figure out problems and
we had some work cases that we did. The group that we worked with it was our mentors it
was our managers it was everybody who wanted to get involved was constantly giving us feedback,
training us on best ways to do things, best practices, we did a training with Salesforce
themselves thought a week long training and so not knowing Salesforce coming in was a
little daunting for me but going through the training it was a real learning experience.
After a year with Perficient I got promoted to the team lead position and it really talks
to the growing space of Salesforce and of Perficient as well. We’ve had tremendous
growth and we needed people to step up to leadership roles and those types of opportunities
are the ones that when they come up you seize them and it really has been a growing experience
for me to see my managers and mentors move up the ladder in the company and me take into
account that success and follow them. Perficient has really stepped into the Salesforce space
and they’ve grown and I think part of the growth gives us the opportunity to grow as
well and being in the team lead position it’s really show me how to take on a group of people
and try to nourish them and while I do that I nourish my career as well and I think that
gives me more confidence in knowing that I can progress further and having the support
of my peers and support of my managers is really important to my personal growth and
I feel that at Perficient I’m getting that.