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Photo by Hunters Race on UnsplashThe standard career timeline is for amateurs — get promoted quickly with these strategies:It was my first day at my new job. I had graduated college just a month prior and this was my dream job… well, not so
Photo by Akwice on UnsplashIs everyone telling you that you need to switch to the XLOOKUP, but you’re not sure why?Are you comfortable with the VLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH?Make the switch to the XLOOKUP now. If you’re not convinced, this articl
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on UnsplashHow, specifically, do I get better at Excel?I understand that you need to practice, but what does the specific daily practice look like?At the start of my career, once I had learned how to use excel
Photo by Scott Graham on UnsplashWhy are my colleagues and managers coming to completely different conclusions with my data?Why are people not able to follow my work?I was trying to figure out why my spreadsheets, that I had worked so hard
Photo by Rubaitul Azad on UnsplashSo what is Microsoft Excel?Why is it so powerful?Why is it listed in almost every job description?These were the questions that I was asking myself while sitting at the desk of my first job on my first day
Photo by Luke Chesser on UnsplashAre you struggling to figure out Power BI?When I moved into my first data analytics role, I didn’t know anything about Power BI. For the first few days, I began messing around with visuals and data connectio
Photo by Mika Baumeister on UnsplashAre you lost with pivot tables in Excel?A few months into my first job, once I got a bit more comfortable with Excel, I began to notice that almost all of the financial summaries that were being presented
Photo by Carlos Muza on UnsplashAre you struggling to figure out Microsoft Excel?When I applied for my first job, I didn’t even know what Microsoft Excel was, despite getting 100% on the competency test (suspect, I know). Thankfully, I got