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excel skills
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Hello out there,
Some background, I just finished up my masters, went straight through from my bachelors, and I'm looking for a job in the non profit world. I have an interview next week (yay!). They gave me the heads up that there is going to be an excel test. We used excel quite a bit in my gaduate program and I feel pretty confident with it, but I'm still a little nervous. What are some excel skills that you think an employer might test for? I'm hoping to get a list going so I can brush up this weekend.
Thanks! Kathryn 
Re: excel skills
74 books read in 2011
Pivot tables!
Linking one sheet to another. Other than that I would think it would be basic formatting, formulas, etc.
I think this depends what kind of field you are in.
I would know the most common things people do with Excel - organizing numbers into columns, basic functions (including that pesky but excellent $ sign), how to make charts, maybe how to format things into colors and borders.
Unless you are in finance or science you probably wouldn't need the higher-level functions or macros, but it would probably be a good idea to understand how to look things up with the help menu.
Based on the fact that you have used it in your grad program I am going to bet that your skills are more than sufficient to pass the test and probably exceed the skills of most of those you would be working with.
I say this because I am known in my team as a computer guru and, really, my skills are rather basic. I just know how to move around the MS Office programs fairly quickly and create some really cool looking graphs in excel (for which excel does 99% of the work!). And I work with some highly intelligent, high-paid professionals.
FWIW, I don't really know how to use vlookup because I prefer to use a stat software program for linking data sourses. It may be a "cool tool" but given its limitations I don't find it useful. Pivot tables, however, are super useful.