u/Low-Film-1692

I've spent the last 3 months teaching myself HubSpot on my own while working at an IR firm. So far I've built workflows and automations, set up reporting dashboards, run email campaigns, and managed events.

No formal job in it yet, so I'm trying to figure out where this actually leads. Titles I keep seeing are marketing ops, RevOps, CRM admin, and agency work, but I don't know which of these will actually look at someone without agency or in-house experience.

Questions for anyone who's been there:

• What's the most realistic first role for someone at my level?
• Do the free HubSpot certs carry any weight with hiring managers, or is it portfolio only?
• What's the best way to show my work when it's all in a practice/demo portal?
• Anything I'm missing that would make me way more hireable?

I work in investor relations, and we use both HubSpot's Buyer Intent tool and Leadfeeder to track which companies are visiting our clients' stock pages.

I set up both tools to watch the exact same page, with the same date range and the same path filter, as closely matched as I could get them. I expected at least some overlap between the two company lists. Instead I got zero. Not a single company showed up on both.

As a sanity check, I pulled Google Analytics for the same window. The real visitor count landed somewhere between the two, closer to what Leadfeeder reported than what HubSpot reported.

Questions for anyone who has run both tools side by side:

1. Is zero overlap normal, or does that point to something wrong in my setup?
2. When the two disagree, which one do you trust more, and why?
3. Do you use GA (or something else) as the tiebreaker, or is there a better way to reconcile this for client-facing reporting?

Appreciate any input from people who have dealt with this. Trying to figure out if this is just how IP-to-company matching works or if I am missing a config setting somewhere.