Answering an interview question about a skill that you do not have

Hey guys,

so I was curious as to how you guys would go about answering an interview question where the interviewer asks you if possess a certain skill and you do not have that skill

for example

Interviewer : " Do you have any financial modelling skills?"

If the interviewee does not possess this skill how would he go about answering it?

"No I do not know how to model but I believe it is something that I can learn and pick up very quickly if shown how to do it"?

something like that?

Thanks in advance for your help

2 Comments
 

Just be straight, "I don't have too much experience with modeling, as I haven't been exposed to it, but it is something I feel I could learn quickly." (So yeah I guess pretty much what you said.)

-Or you could just learn to do financial models.

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