15 minutes learning new skills

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Spending some time teaching myself Excel skills. I’ve never considered myself to be an expert with Excel but felt I had sufficient knowledge to complete the job I was doing. Lovely, until you get a new job and suddenly find you’re the biggest dope on the planet. As in, sure you have some skills, but you sure as heck don’t have the ones we need.

Suddenly I’m learning how to work with vlookups and conditional formatting and data validation, and loads of other things too.  Thank goodness for online tutorials, helpful colleagues and knowledgable family.

That’s the thing about being the senior person in the job market, it’s just not enough anymore to have some skills, you have to show you are still learning and still keen. Because let’s face it, there is ageism out there. Those interviewing will say there isn’t, but there sure is.

On that note, a question at a recent interview “what’s your favourite excel formula?”

Any takers?