Salesforce Developer Resume Template & Examples

Did you know that the best Salesforce developer resume is the one that’s never been written before?

That’s right! If you’re a Salesforce developer, and you’re applying to jobs, writing a great resume might be the most important part of the whole process. That’s why we created this guide. It ‘s full of data, tips, and best practices to help you craft the best possible Salesforce developer resume. Let’s dive in.

Methodology

To build our salesforce developer resume guide, we analyzed 423 salesforce developer resumes and 41 salesforce developer job postings using machine learning to identify the most common elements of good salesforce developer resumes and the things employers ask for most often when hiring.

We’ve also built a database of over 600,000 publicly available resumes from different professions & analyzed how the best resumes were written. 

It’s always good to make your resume unique and to follow best practices. This guide will help you understand what you need to include to make it competitive based on a large set of data from real resumes and real job listings.

You can read about our methodology in more detail here.

Salesforce developer resume objective data + salesforce developer objective examples

Do salesforce developer’s need to include an objective on their resume? 

The general advice for resume objectives and professional summaries is still true (read our guide on resume objectives), but here’s what the data says for salesforce developer’s specifically:

• 16% of salesforce developer’s included an objective section
• 68% of salesforce developer’s included a professional summary
• 28% of salesforce developer’s included neither an objective nor a summary

Salesforce developer resume objective examples

Skills for salesforce developer resumes

The best skills to put on any resume will be the ones most relevant to the job, but based on our analysis, these skills are among the most common on salesforce developer resumes, which means they can be a strong foundation and are probably good to list on yours (if you’ve got them).

To learn more about how to fully leverage your skills section, check out our guide to resume skills.

*Note: our machine learning essentially picks up common words and phrases in skill sections, so you may have to extrapolate what skills are needed based on your own professional experience. 

Most common salesforce developer resume skills

Other good salesforce developer resume skills

• JavaScript
• C#
• MVC style of designing
• Data management
• Data modeling
• Visualforce and Apex fundamentals
• Lightning framework
• Developer console
• Salesforce Object Query Language
• SQL
• Web services
• Bootstrap
• AngularJS
• jQuery
• Apex Triggers
• Apex Testing

Salesforce developer skills section examples

Note: we formatted all these examples the same way here for the sake of simplicity, but you can read about skills section formatting in our guide to resume formatting.

Salesforce developer skills example 1

Salesforce developer skills example 2

Salesforce developer skills example 3

Work experience for salesforce developer resumes

Work experience is perhaps the most important part of any resume, and it’s no different for salesforce developer resumes. 

For more detailed info on work experience sections specifically, check out our guide for writing a good work experience resume section and our guide for building a resume with no experience.

In general, when applying for salesforce developer jobs, you want to highlight the experience most relevant to each specific position. Here are a few samples.

Salesforce developer work experience examples

Education for salesforce developer resumes

Unless you’re applying for academic positions or don’t have any work experience, your work history will be more important than your education.

Still, education is usually listed on resumes, and often, salesforce developer job postings list a minimum education requirement. 

See our guide for education on resumes for more detailed information.

Data from our sample of 423 salesforce developer resumes

• 1% salesforce developer resumes listed an associate’s degree
• 53% salesforce developer resumes listed a bachelor’s degree
• 44% salesforce developer resumes included a masters degree
• 0% salesforce developer resumes mentioned a doctoral degree

Salesforce developer resume education examples

Certifications for salesforce developer resumes

Not every job requires certifications, but certifications can almost always improve your odds of landing an interview, and there certifications for (or related to) nearly all jobs. 

In fact, we wrote a playbook for listing certifications on resumes.

Here are a few certifications that can help salesforce developer’s specifically, according to CareerOneStop.

Salesforce developer certification examples

Salesforce developer resume action verbs

After analyzing over 600,000 resumes, we built a huge library of of action verbs and cross-referenced it with our sample of 423 salesforce developer resumes and job postings to find which action verbs are most commonly used by salesforce developer’s and salesforce developer employers.

The most common action verbs on salesforce developer resumes are: design, code, test, process, and create.

The most common action verbs on salesforce developer job postings are: develop, build, report, implement, and lead.

Other action verbs for salesforce developer resumes: 

• Review
• Manage
• Document
• Engineer
• Track
• Improve
• Program
• Perform
• Built
• Run
• Review
• Manage
• Document
• Engineer
• Track

Full salesforce developer resume example

We created a couple complete salesforce developer resume examples to help you see how all this fits together. Yours can be better than this. This is just a basic illustration. 

To see “perfect” examples, check out our showcase of resume examples.

Salesforce developer resume example

What experts say about salesforce developer resumes

Before we wrap it up, we want to leave you with some advice from other experts we admire.

“Your contact details can be a great place to put social links so put you know perhaps your twitter if you use it for professional reasons or you could put a link to a blog if you have one but importantly here is hyperlink don’t just copy in a url onto your cv you want to be hyperlinking things instead it looks much smarter and much more professional” – Craft Your Salesforce Resume: How to Stand out in the Ecosystem

” Your resume is your billboard to a potential employer and if you think about what you want to be able to portray you have to be concise and accurate.” – How to build an amazing resume to get a job as a Salesforce professional with Christopher A. Hopper

” Your education should also not be the first thing somebody sees. Your degree is not a voucher to anything anymore. You need more. Employers are looking for more.” – Resume Tips: 3 Steps to a Perfect Resume

Want help with your salesforce developer resume?

Thank you for reading our guide! We hope you’ve learned a thing or two about how to make a good salesforce developer resume. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.