The technological revolution has not spared the business world and in the digital age, it is difficult to do without digital tools in their daily tasks.
Excel is one of the tools that has become essential for the functioning of many professional activities, whether in terms of management, coordination, financial management or HR management.
Do you want to take Excel training? Find out what the advantages are and how to choose it.
Why choose to train in Excel?
Excel is one of the most used tools in the Microsoft Office suite, along with PowerPoint, a slideshow creation software, and Word, the word processing tool.
Excel is a spreadsheet software whose main functions are data analysis, calculation, programming or graphical representation. It can therefore be used to carry out simple tasks such as additions, or more complex ones such as trigonometry, depending on the user’s objectives. When perfectly mastered, the Excel tool offers almost unlimited potential in terms of functionalities .
Excel software has therefore become essential in the daily life of companies, enabling them to optimize resources and also supporting the development of an activity.
However, even today, many employees or job seekers have a superficial use of the tool, or even no mastery. There are thus courses to train you on Excel at your own pace , to allow trainees to discover the tool or to improve their skills.
By completing Excel training, you will be able to easily enhance this skill throughout your professional career, whether as part of a job search, a change of position or even a professional retraining.
What skills can you gain after Excel training?
With basic use, Excel will allow you to create spreadsheets to manage, among other things, the daily activities of a company. From attendance planning to editing invoices or quotes, Excel is essential for administrative tasks.
By completing training, you will nevertheless be able to develop your skills and be able to push the potential of the tool by integrating more complex functions such as macros or even dynamic pivot tables.
Concretely, mastering the Excel tool will allow you to accomplish several tasks:
- create dashboards to monitor or manage a project;
- establish schedules;
- produce reporting on an action, a project;
- manage multiple files simultaneously, using macros;
- establish a budget, carry out financial modeling, monitor financial activity;
- process, analyze and visualize data.
Creating tables adapted to your activity and your needs is therefore possible thanks to Excel, and the more you master this tool, the more you will be able to optimize your work.
Because for business leaders or recruitment managers, being trained in the use of Excel is a real asset for the majority of positions. It allows you to gain in efficiency and therefore to make better use of your working time, to be more productive, to benefit from efficient management tools, and to facilitate the completion of basic but often time-consuming administrative tasks.
As you will have understood, completing Excel training offers significant advantages for your professional progression and will undoubtedly be an important asset during the recruitment phase.
How to choose your training?
Excel is a common software for most companies, it is an excellent means of communication with external partners, in addition to being an essential internal management tool. Thus, it is common to choose to train in Excel, whether it is the will of an employee, a person looking for a job or at the request of the employer.
To choose your training, it is first essential to define your need . What use do you want to make of the tool? To meet what objectives? For what type of activity? There may indeed be specialized training for this or that sector of activity.
The second important point in choosing your training, and which arises from your needs, is to define your current level of mastery of the tool and the one you wish to achieve.
Indeed, training organizations often offer several levels of training, as is the case at Datascientest, the French leader in data science training, which offers three levels of training, beginner, advanced, complete mastery, each leading to the TOSA RS5252 Certification, recognized by the State. A Qualiopi-certified training organization, the training provided by Datascientest can be financed by your CPF.
Also take into account the formats offered: face-to-face, distance, mixed. Each modality has advantages, the main thing is to find the training that will be in accordance with your availability, in terms of time and geographical area, but also in relation to your personal, professional or financial constraints.
Really mastering this tool is therefore a real strong point on the CV of candidates, but also an undeniable asset for the self-employed or managers of VSEs/SMEs. The digitalization of companies being more than ever at the heart of current concerns, carrying out Excel training is a long-term investment that allows professionals to improve their operations and remain competitive.
