How NJC Labs rallied to win the MuleSoft Training’s Certober event in JAPAC
In October, the JAPAC MuleSoft Training and Certification Team hosts the largest certification sprint of the year.
We invite our customers, partners and wider ecosystem to take part in this certification initiative. We offer various incentives to help people get started on their MuleSoft journey, as well as free exam readiness workshops, and materials to help our students prepare for their exams.
We also offer bragging rights for the partner who achieves the most certifications in October.
This year I’m extremely proud to announce that NJC Labs took the title!
Shefreen Kunhimohamed, Integration Architect / Senior Developer, earned an additional 4 certifications within 4 weeks which is exceptional! Since October, he has added the latest MuleSoft Integration Associate Certification to his belt. He’s part of an exclusive club of experts who hold 5 out of 5 MuleSoft certifications.
The MuleSoft Partner team took members of the NJC Labs team out to lunch to celebrate!
After lunch, the NJC Labs team joined me back to the Salesforce office for an exclusive interview. I wanted to find out why training and certification is integral to their success, and what motivates them to keep their certifications and skills up to date.
Please watch this exclusive interview in the video below:
Part of my role as a Training Advisor is to work with our partners throughout the year to ensure that they have the skills and certifications required for us to confidently tell our customers that they are well equipped to take on their integration implementation and projects.
So it brought me great pleasure to see that Shefreen Kunhimohamed, the MuleSoft Practice Lead at NJC Labs and his team took out the winning title.
A special highlight: half of those certified were women.
I am always inspired by other women in tech and particularly respect organisations who support those women. Shefreen told me that they have a 50% gender equality in their workforce.
“We value women involvement. As part of our hiring practice itself, we actually look out for these women employees, especially those who have taken a career break for whatever circumstances they have had, and we involve them, cross train them into MuleSoft.
And one of these examples is Sushmita. She was right out of post graduation and took our training, and has proven very valuable to our team and we are very proud of her.”
I asked Shefreen what his best tip is for other organizations new to using MuleSoft?
His response:
“Training, training, and training
MuleSoft trainings are all well organised, well structured, gives you that direct path to get the best out of all your resources.”
I asked Sushmita and Sai Asish how has MuleSoft helped you build your profile and your MuleSoft skills?
Sai Ashish said:
“Being new to the MuleSoft eco-system, the trainings designed by MuleSoft are really helpful to understand the basics and implement the same in the projects we work on now. So both instructor led and self-paced training is helpful in the practice.”
Lastly, what’s their best advice for those who want to kick start their journey in MuleSoft?
“Start off with the self-paced training, get your fundamentals strong, and practice a lot!” — Sushmita
“This is the right time to start with MuleSoft as it’s getting a lot of traction in the market. If you start now, you can eventually grow along within the MuleSoft space. It really helps to develop a career for whoever wants to start with MuleSoft now.” — Sai Asish
I truly enjoyed getting to know the NJC Labs team, and having the opportunity to interview them.
My main takeaway is that training plays an integral role in the success of our partners and their team.
If you are interested in learning more about integration and MuleSoft, check out the free self paced Integration Associate course and certification.
