Seen a job advertised I am realy interested in but.................

[mammasmadhouse]

I have seen a jobs advertised which when reading the person spec I can do it all expect this bit 'An excellent working knowledge of Excel is essential (e.g. summary statistics, pivot tables), as is competency and confidence with numerical data'. I have a backgorund in finance and used to working with different systems but I am just not sure my excel skills come close to this. A friend thinks I should apply as it is a skill that can be learnt and infact the employer offer 2 hour courses in excel and pivot tables etc. I am just wary of putting myself in a situation where I am doomed to fail??

What would you do...??

Apply, what's the worst that can happen?

What's the job?

Apply.

Do you know anyone that does a similar job that could teach you about it?

Apply... and get a book and learn (from the library if money is tight).

Apply, and get a grip with Excel before the interview. It's easy enough to get a grip once you sit down for a few hours.

apply - the worst they will do is turn you down - best case scenario you get the job

Apply. Google 'excel pivot table tutorial' and try a few of them. Ask around friends and get somebody who is hot on Excel to give you a bit of a lowdown. I'm sure they would rather have someone with financial experience and less Excel than someone with perfect Excel and no financial background.

Excel tutorials on YouTube are brilliant, well some are, have a look around and work the examples with them as they go along.

Apply and then Youtube pivot tables etc. In fact I might do that myself actually..the pivot tables, not applying for your job! I learnt mail-merge from Youtube not long ago for an interview.
Good luck.

Cathy