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What Do I Need to Learn to Apply for ServiceNow Developer or HRSD Developer Roles ?

anjalinegi1
Tera Contributor

yesterday

Hi everyone,

I have gone through ServiceNow Administration and HRSD, and now I want to move toward ServiceNow Development.

I would like to get some guidance from experienced ServiceNow professionals about the skills I should focus on to become job-ready.

  • Do I need to learn the complete JavaScript language, or are there specific JavaScript concepts that are more important for ServiceNow development?
  • What technical and ServiceNow-specific skills should I learn to apply for a ServiceNow Developer role?
  • If I want to apply specifically for an HRSD Developer role, are there any additional skills or HRSD-related areas I should learn?
  • Apart from ServiceNow Administration, HRSD, and Development, are there any other technologies, tools, or concepts that are expected from a fresher/junior ServiceNow Developer?
  • What would be the best learning roadmap from my current level to becoming job-ready?

I would really appreciate it if experienced developers could share their advice on what skills are must-have for getting a ServiceNow Developer or HRSD Developer job and what can be learned later.

Thanks in advance for your guidance!

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Aditya_hublikar
Giga Sage

33m ago

Hello @anjalinegi1 ,

 

Welcome to servicenow community 😀

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You can start with practicing in Servicenow PDI .  

 

When you start exploring ServiceNow PDI, begin with understanding the basic platform UI:

  • Application Navigator, Banner, Content Frame (UI16)

  • Explore Forms and List Views

  • Company Branding and changing the Welcome Page

  • Context Menu (what it is and its types)

  • Breadcrumbs and how they work

Next, move on to data modeling basics:

  • Table and Field creation

  • Table dependencies and Table Extensions

  • Field types

  • Views

  • Important OOTB tables like User (sys_user), Group (sys_user_group), Role (sys_user_role), Delegations

Once you are comfortable with this, explore core configuration concepts:

  • Reference Qualifiers

  • Dot-walking

  • UI Policies

  • Dictionary Overrides

  • ACLs

  • Priority Lookup

  • Difference between Configuration vs Customization

Then understand data movement and backup concepts:

  • Update Sets (how to take backup of your work)

  • Update Set transfer methods

  • Import Sets

After learning these basics, you can confidently move forward to explore Service Management modules like:

  • Incident

  • Problem

  • Change

  • Request

And then deep dive into the Development part.

 

CSA is the basic and most important certification for ServiceNow beginners

Main topics to focus on:

  • Platform UI and navigation

  • Tables, fields, forms, and list views

  • Users, groups, and roles

  • Basic ITSM concepts

  • UI Policies, Client Scripts, and Business Rules (basic understanding)

Best practices:

  • Practice each topic in your Personal Developer Instance (PDI)

  • Do not just memorize answers—try to understand why a feature is used and when to use it

Once you follow this path, your ServiceNow learning journey will be smooth and structured 

 

 

Try to spend 2-3 hours daily  on community which will help you understand different real  time scenarios ,different approaches . Explore University Course which also enhance your knowledge.

Start with the "Welcome to ServiceNow " training, it's really good and it will gives you your first certificate!

The Certified System Administrator (CSA) certificate is initial stage , it's useful for almost for any servicenow role .

 

Roadmap :

 

  1. ServiceNow Fundamentals – Platform overview, navigation, applications, forms, lists and tables.
  2. CSA Concepts – Users, groups, roles, modules, data model and basic ITSM.
  3. ServiceNow Administration – Tables, fields, forms, views, reference fields, dictionary, notifications and update sets.
  4. Security – ACLs, roles, users, groups and security basics.
  5. ITSM Modules – Incident, Problem, Change, Request and Knowledge.
  6. JavaScript Basics – Variables, conditions, loops, functions, arrays, objects, scope and debugging.
  7. Client-side Development – UI Policies, Client Scripts, g_form and g_user.
  8. Server-side Development – Business Rules, GlideRecord, GlideAggregate and gs.
  9. Reusable Scripting – Script Includes, GlideAjax and reusable server-side logic.
  10. Automation – Flow Designer, Events, Notifications and Scheduled Jobs.
  11. Integrations – REST APIs, REST Messages, Import Sets and Transform Maps.
  12. Real-world Projects – Build scenarios in your PDI and practice solving requirements.
  13. Interview Preparation – Scenario-based questions, scripting problems and troubleshooting.

 

You can refer this thread :

https://www.servicenow.com/community/sysadmin-forum/six-steps-on-how-to-start-learning-servicenow-a-...

 

You can also explore Learning plans from below :

https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/learn/learning-plans/zurich

 

 

 

Here are few thread that you can refer for interview question  :

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-forum/servicenow-interview-questions-part-1/td-p/3511504

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-forum/scripting-practice-question/td-p/3529846

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/itsm-forum/scripting-interview-questions/td-p/3545279

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/virtual-agent-forum/scenario-based-and-theoretical-interview-qu...

 

 

 

If this helps you then mark it as helpful and accept as solution.

Regards,

Aditya

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