In: Computer Science
give two reasons why you think Excel skills are so important in the job market today. Discuss how you would expect to use Excel in your future career or in your personal life.
EXCEL plays a prominent role in today's job field.
we can do many things using Excel . Some of the basic things are
i) calculating
ii) creating tables
iii) creating reports
iv) collecting and storing data
v) making spreadsheets etc.
Not only the above mentioned but also we can do many things using excel
70% of today's jobs need Excel skills
Some of the reasons why excel is most important in job market are
i) Its used for PROJECT MANAGEMENT
In many jobs, its necessary to do a project. Excel can be used in the project management . Though we have many different softwares for that, Excel is a trusted and reliable one.
Using Excel workbook we can save the plans of the project in it.
We can also use it for making schedule for the project.
Excel workbook can be easily shared to others whom we want to share with (i.e colleagues, head of the projects etc)
ii) Its used for Performance Monitoring
There is feature in the excel called PIVOT TABLE. We can use pivot table to convert the information into a report. There are many inbuilt functions in pivot table which will help to do all these.
we can use it for making a report on the performance of the employees or performance of the machines in the workplace. its easy to use and easy to understand
Not only these, But we can do many more things using Excel in both professional and personal life
We can use Excel in many fields such as Education, Business, in Personal etc
In "Education field" we can use it for making spreadsheets, making calculations, creating tables , Storing of the data, Marking the report of marks and attendance , making report of students perfomance, making schedules etc
In "Business field" we can use it for project management, employee management, graphical analizations, creating reports etc
In "Daily life" we can use it for making schedules, collecting and storing the information, making plans etc
Not only in these things but Excel is very useful in many of the fields in daily life and also professional life
It is can also get us a good a job and helps in increasing the salary with good excel skills
So it is Important to have a good excel skills in today's job market..
***Please give a like if you are satisfied with the answer. If you have any doubts or you need any further information ask me through comments. THANK YOU!***