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sweaterkittensahoy: webbgirl34:sweaterkittensahoy: oft-goes-awry:sweaterkittensahoy:dianasson: broken-horn-of-equius: bryannagraham: quiteliterallyhotsauce: Invest in yourself and you increase your income Filtering is definitely a must! Here are some links to it, but also research excel, sharepoint, and PowerPoint on youtube!!! How to Filter in Excel How To Filter In Excel: Advanced Filters And Autofilter Explained Video: Filter data in a range or table Citizen: *goes to college, accumulates at least tens of thousands of dollars in debt, almost burns out* HR interviewer: You’ve got the education, but we’re not sure you have the knowledge and experience necessary for this line of work. Citizen: I also…. Know how, to…. use Excel(?) Interviewer: *trying to hide massive work-boner while noticeably sweating* Go on…. Lmaoooooo true. Reblogging for those looking to add marketable skills to their applications Filtering is the one thing I can always remember how to do in Excel, and it impresses every single time. All the rest of these are also excellent. I once watched an intern being asked, “Do you know how to do Pivot Tables?” and he said, “Oh, yeah. Gimmie two hours.” and the manager walked out of the room. I watched him watch a couple of videos on YouTube about how to make Pivot Tables, then fucking DO IT. And two hours later, when the manager came back in, he had one going. When I realized he was watching YouTube vids about it, I knew I wasn’t gonna say shit to the manager. Intern said he could do it. It was his job to prove it. It wasn’t my job to rat out the guy as having literally just learned. Kid pulled it off. Good for him. Rapid skills acquisition is a real fucking thing for the internet generation, and I won’t ever rat out someone who says, “Yeah, I can do that,” and then learns it in an hour. My only note on this story is to encourage women to pull this same trick. Fucking lie through your teeth and set a deadline to give you time to watch a couple of YouTube videos. Have the audacity of a 20-something white boy in a sexist environment and dead-eye say you know how to do it. If you don’t think you can pull off, “Yes, I can do it,” with a straight face, try: “I haven’t done it in a while; give me a bit to look up the details and knock off the dust.”Then look it up. Speaking of knocking off the dust, I was failing at how to say this, and you fucking nailed it. All of this. I’ve done this sort of thing for years when learning new skills. Way back in the day I had to use reference books for it, but YouTube has been a godsend. Honestly, a big part of the reason I have the job I have and make the salary I do is because of saying “Sure I can” and then figuring it out.And as a quick side note: just be aware that once you learn Pivot Tables and VLookup, you’re going to be the go-to person for that stuff. A lot of people look at those things like they’re a spell of the dark arts that only a few ever know. This is so true. I was the go-to person for Microsoft Word questions even though I never promised sweet fuck all where Word was concerned because I was the tech writer and really fucking good at my job (including a few cases of faking to making it).“Gayle, I need your help. How do I take a table from excel and put it in word?”Me: “…I don’t know, but gimmie your mouse and lemme try a couple things.”Was I an actual expert in taking tables from excel to word? Oh my god fuck no. But half of someone asking for help is that they think you can totally pull an answer out of your ass and will happily watch you fail a few times as you figure it out. Because it’s not about being an expert. It’s about being wiling to fail in ways they are not comfortable at failing.Part of what I love about being a tech writer is that my complete lack of shame means that I gain loyalty and trust from people by saying, “I dunno. Let’s find out,” and then refusing to feel shame if I don’t get it on the first try.Oh, my first try failed? Neat. Let’s try another theory I’m literally throwing at the wall. If I fuck up enough, I’ll admit defeat. But–fun fact–by that point, my willingness to fuck up and admit it means I’ve gained loyalty from someone who wants to know how to make something work but also is uncomfortable admitting they don’t totally understand how something works. -- source link