job interview - university timetabling officer, advice please

[salvo]

I've been offered a job interview for a Timetabling Officer at university.
It will include an Excel task; has anyone been interviewed for such position? any idea what task could involve? Thank you!!

Hi @salvo - would you like us to move this thread over to our Education topic or even our main Chat topic, where there may be more people around to answer your question? Just hit the report button if so and we'll do that for you.

Best of luck with the interview.

yes please, thank you!

That's fine - we'll move it over to Chat and see if we can get you some advice.

I'm not a timetabling officer but I am a course coordinator so I'm responsible for timetabling a department's classes. The only time I use Excel in that context is to pull a report from the timetabling system, then I can manipulate the information more easily.

I was wondering how you manipulate the report? What software do you use?

Another university admin person here. Depending on the software, you might be asked to export data into Excel, where you can then manipulate it. It's impossible to guess what your exercise will entail, but possibly testing knowledge of using filters, pivot tables etc? I know we've looked for those skills when we've recruited for similar roles.