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    I love Excel. What jobs should I look for?

    I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask for career advice here. I would really appreciate it if you guys read my post and share your opinion.
    Please allow me to introduce myself briefly.
    I love Excel and I'm addicted to it. I don't mind doing Excel all day long. I am so happy when I use the complex features of the application. I started to think about getting a job that requires me to do Excel all the time. It would be wonderful if a job is more than just entering data. But if that's a way to get my foot in the door, I'll take that. However, I don't know where to start. I have no experience in this field. I've been doing flooring after graduating high school. I never had a chance to go to college. I still can't afford to go to college.
    What jobs that I should look for? Are there any credentials that I should get except college degrees?
    Thanks for reading my post. Please help this poor floor layer. I look forward to your advice.
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    Re: I love Excel. What jobs should I look for?

    Suggest you Google: jobs requiring microsoft excel expertise.

    Guess you'll get different suggestions to me based on your location.
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    Re: I love Excel. What jobs should I look for?

    Quote Originally Posted by gsbkv10 View Post
    I know it's a bit awkward to ask for career advice here. I would really appreciate it if you guys read my post and share your opinion.
    Please allow me to introduce myself briefly.
    I love Excel and I'm addicted to it. I don't mind doing Excel all day long. I am so happy when I use the complex features of the application. I started to think about getting a job that requires me to do Excel all the time. It would be wonderful if a job is more than just entering data. But if that's a way to get my foot in the door, I'll take that. However, I don't know where to start. I have no experience in this field. I've been doing flooring after graduating high school. I never had a chance to go to college. I still can't afford to go to college.
    What jobs that I should look for? Are there any credentials that I should get except college degrees?
    Thanks for reading my post. Please help this poor floor layer. I look forward to your advice.
    I studied economics in university and have had various stints in "analyst" roles. I'm still early in my career but my Excel abilities have helped me land Financial Analyst roles (corporate finance) although I know certain finance specializations such as investment banking can utilize Excel for macros / financial statement modeling.

    I've also used excel to go through qualitative data (contract agreement material) to find quantitative figures. My title at the company was "Contracts Data Analyst" where I essentially filtered and found geographic/financial/agreement classification information through SAP/Oracle data reports.

    The SAP/Oracle data reports were run by the Business Analysts / IT group but the resultant report was unfiltered data. In their world you call these "dimensions" .. this may not make sense right now but with corporate business exposure you'll get what I'm saying.

    I also have a friend who works in Transfer Pricing for a Big 4 Accounting Group (TP is a tax practice; consultative rather than straight audit/accounting) and the extent of his excel AFAIK are valuation models. Most often many of these Excel workbooks in business roles, in my opinion, are rather algebraic in nature and depending on your creativity you might get to stretch how Excel is used in your organization.

    An example of this would be a price/cost analysis of three different vendor companies selling product X. Product X (let's say they are laptop computers for a marketing department) is required by your company to last 3 years, be around $1500 each, and you anticipate that the laptop users will put around 1,440 hours per year on them.

    Company A offers a premium price above $1500 while Company B offers a lower priced laptop around $1200. Company C however offers a better warranty / payback opportunity by refreshing the contract with a 20% discount on future purchases. While there is room to bargain with Company A and B, Company C has been very firm with their prices at $1550. How you assess the total units to be purchased / overall lifetime value / business opportunity / risk of these three different companies to create a level playing field for management to decide on a vendor is what I would be exposed to in my work.

    The formulas can be kept simple but its the underpinning concepts of business that can make this exercise become more complex. There are many other career paths that utilize Excel. However if data or the sciences are more your venue and interest you may want to study applied physical sciences / math where they make use of MatLab / SPSS or other data aggregating software. I have no experience in this but Excel is in my opinion the swiss army knife for businesses in the business of making money.

    I chose to study economics and the extent of my Excel usage was through a Economics Statistics course where we ran regression analysis manually. Sad to say that I've quite forgotten how to do this exactly on Excel haha. If your career dictates you run / use regression analysis on the daily you're probably not going to be using Excel (although you could) as more sophisticated or specialized programs probably exist.

    I noticed that you cannot afford to attend college but many of these jobs more often than not require Bachelors / 4-year university degrees. Your pay rate will be commensurate with your education/experience. It's worth the investment if you are interested in pursuing a business role and your Excel savviness will be the first step in opening doors.

    Hope this helps... let me know if you have any questions/thoughts.
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    Re: I love Excel. What jobs should I look for?

    You can go for" Data Analyst " job.Some online colleges offer training programs in data analysis, but these programs are not required to work as a data analyst. Anyone with an advanced degree in mathematics, computer science, economics, or a similar scientific field, will possess the required training to embark on a career in data analysis.

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    Re: I love Excel. What jobs should I look for?

    If you have a love for Excel and want a way in I suggest ...

    any medium to large business will be messing about with data and will benefit by understanding that data better. (Small business often won't afford the wages to get the benefits).

    Purchasing departments need to analyse usage in order to negotiate better purchasing agreements.

    Costing departments need ways to analyse, compare and model numbers.

    All departments want more information on production, sales and costs.

    So my answer is get into any business see something that is not well understood and use excel to bring understanding. Then you will get the opportunity to do more.


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