The bad news is “technological illiteracy, much less technophobia, is no longer a sustainable option for the modern worker. Effectively, entire segments of the economy are off-limits to people who don’t have basic digital skills.” – A wise man. You will not go far in the world if you cannot at least blag your way into fooling an employer that you know what you are talking about.
The good news? Well, there’s lots of good news actually. Keep reading, and you’ll learn why you need to add Excel to your resume. The key notion is that you will need Excel for good to progress and arise from your current situation.
- Excel is not just for making tables
When you were in school, maybe you used Excel to plug in a few number tables or add two cells together. However, Excel is so much more complex than that. For example, did you know that the program can do all of the following:
● Organise data in an easy-to-navigate way
● Do basic and complex mathematical functions so you don’t have to
● Turn piles of data into helpful graphics and charts
● Analyse data and make forecasting predictions
● Create, build, and edit pixelated images (yes, creatives use it, too)
Long story short? There’s a lot more to the program than you probably even realised, and there’s a use for it no matter what you do. It’s more about problem-solving in an organised manner than it is about rows of data, and this shift in perspective will allow you to think more critically about how Excel can help you specifically.
- Excel helps you get stuff done
“I don’t want to get through my work more efficiently,” said no professional ever, unless you are psychopath who specifically enjoys working harder and not smarter. Think to what you could do with all this extra time on your hands.
In addition to organising data, Excel’s plethora of programs and functions are meant to save you time. Instead of adding up 127 columns of monthly expenses yourself, for example, Excel does the math for you, and you’ll know it’s correct (given you programmed it correctly).
By using Excel, you’ll save a ton of time at your job and/or in your personal life, and it’s guaranteed to be more accurate than something you could’ve done by hand. What’s not to love? More time with your pets, more time to eat, more time to play games and I suppose more time to spend with your loved ones too.
- It will increase your salary
It will literally increase your salary, what more do you need to know.
Research shows that middle-skill job applicants who know Microsoft Excel make £22.66 per hour on average compared to the £20.14 per hour their peers make who don’t know the program. That’s roughly an extra £20 per eight-hour workday and £100 per work week, simply for knowing how to use a single computer program. Moreover, full-time employees in certain industries can see a starting salary bump of anywhere from £1,000 to £7,000 per year based on their Excel skills. That’s not chump change you can ignore, be a champ and use Excel.
And that’s essentially why you should learn Excel. Excel may seem intimidating at first, but by just starting to use the program for basic tasks in your life, you’ll get a better feel for how it works and also how it can make everything you do so much easier. If you are naturally lazy then you will make a very skillful efficiency officer for any company so get on it. Excel in life.
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