What Should I Talk About My Excel Skills During a Interview?

I am an accounting student, from several job/intern interviews I found that every employer cared about Excel very much. I really don't have too much Excel experiences, I mean I am capable to handle basic and general data entry and maintenance but whenever they asked me about what projects I have done with Excel I got stuck, because I really didn't do much things with it. What do you think that I should talk about just to smoothly get over the Excel topics?

Suggestion:

Usually, people will not go in-depth into what you can do with Excel in the interviews. You can tell them about your knowledge of pivot tables (if you have worked on them), formulas such as average, sum and some small summation macros which you might have used. You can prepare a small cheat sheet of all the math functions you used while working with excel and talk about them. But don't stretch your luck by talking about things that you are not sure about. You can always say that you did not use a certain function if you haven't used it. People interviewing you will understand that if you have worked on Excel, you can find your way around things once you start on the job since you are already familiar with it.

Otherwise you can google for sites which give you tips for using Excel for accounting purposes. To start with, you can use the site below. Its quite simple to learn, try and use.

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