Keseana shares her experience juggling her role as a Salesforce solution engineer with her degree apprenticeship. She initially struggled with balancing her workload and maintaining her work-life balance, but she learned to work smarter, not harder. She advises that it's important to communicate with your cohort and manager about any challenges you may face and to recognize that the outcome of the process is not always as important as the process itself.
In this episode, Keseana discusses the challenges of being a solutions engineer, including the need to engage with clients, present demos, and maintain composure when things go wrong. She also emphasizes the importance of seeking out mentorship and finding the right fit for your career path. Keseana recommends researching the role and seeking out opportunities to present and engage with clients to determine if it's the right fit for you.
Keseana also highlights the importance of soft skills in the tech industry, particularly when it comes to peer programming and working with others. She emphasizes the need to listen to other people and collaborate with them in order to succeed.
Overall, the episode provides valuable insights into the world of solution engineering and the challenges and rewards that come with it. It also emphasizes the importance of finding the right balance between work and life and the value of soft skills in the tech industry.
0:00:00.000,0:00:03.780 hi I'm Amber and I'm Jesse and this is blowing Tech
0:00:05.940,0:00:13.260 sponsored by makers so today we are joined by the wonderful kashana and would you be able to
0:00:13.260,0:00:18.120 give us a little bit of an introduction to you so I'm kashana I'm a Salesforce Legion engineer
0:00:18.120,0:00:23.880 Apprentice so I spend 80 of my time working as a solution engineer and also studying towards
0:00:23.880,0:00:30.480 my degree at Ada College amazing amazing and that leads us nicely on to the industry Insight
0:00:30.480,0:00:34.800 in five so kashan is going to give us a little bit of an insight into the industry she works
0:00:34.800,0:00:41.880 in and why she finds it interesting so um in Salesforce we specialize in cloud computing
0:00:41.880,0:00:48.120 so essentially we are selling our software to different customers as a sales engineer and
0:00:48.120,0:00:53.580 part of my role is understanding the business pain points doing customer discoveries so then
0:00:53.580,0:00:58.080 we're able to use the software to actually build a solution that Maps out those business challenges
0:00:59.220,0:01:04.920 um oh my gosh fine let's do very well okay what is it about it that you found it why do you find that
0:01:04.920,0:01:09.420 interesting what was it that got you interested in this role I think what got me interested in this
0:01:09.420,0:01:14.040 role so just to give a bit of a backstory I was initially going to go down the software engineer