WSP Excel Course and Financial Model on Resume (Back Office)
Hey everybody,
Long time lurker, first time poster here. Thanks for all the help everyone has given me over the years.
I am currently working a back office job for a bank and while applying for new jobs I am consistently asked about my excel knowledge. The excel I use on a daily basis is a lot of v lookups, filtering, etc. (no financial modeling or anything).
I recently completed the WSP Excel Crash Course so I could get a refresher. I wanted to list it on my resume so that hiring managers can see that I know a good amount of functions and more importantly, that I can learn new functions if I have not used them before.
Is this considered a good idea if I am going for another back office, non-glamorous finance job?
If it is a good idea, what would be the best way to list what I learned in the class without listing every single function that I learned?
Currently, I have it listed as such;
Online Classes
WallStreetPrep(dot)com Excel Crash Course
- Learned Nested IF Statements, Index Match Match, & Count If.
- Learned Conditional Formatting, Paste Special, & Dynamic Headers
- Learned V-Lookup, Pivot Tables & Text to Columns
Also, I am also thinking about building a 3 statement model (learning from the WSP course) and posting that model online so I can reference it on my resume. Not really to show off my basic financial modeling skills, but to have something that shows that I can use excel at a proficient level.
I guess the draw backs to these ideas would be that;
A) It looks stupid.
B) I could get grilled on technical questions about excel or financial modeling.
My argument against B would be, none of the jobs I am applying to require financial modeling experience or don't do any financial modeling at all and therefor they may not hold too much weight on a bad/ basic model since I am self taught and showing initiative.
If I got grilled on excel functions that I don't know, I think that I could argue that since I learned the functions listed above, I can learn other equally complex functions.
What do you all think?
Thanks for all the help. Sorry if this was too long or was asked before.
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