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You think you know excel and ppt as an intern, but you have no idea.
Learn both
I would play with tableau and sql both. Tableau looks easy in the videos because they show you what it is good at - if you want to please a picky client or make messy data pretty you need to know how to rig tableau to do what you want. That is really hard to practice without a specific tasks but it makes grasping the basics all the more imperative.
Learn SQL as well - not the theoretical but basic syntax and practicing on dummy data will help a lot.
Learn VBA if you can to automate the shitty tasks you'll surely be asked to do as a new hire. Keep knowledge of that on the dl until you find people to trust or else you'll be stuck making macros for your superiors
Tableau is great, which I could get more of it on my projects. And just general numeracy/arithmetic flexibility. Read a book on Operations Research
Tableau- not really. EY prefers Spotfire. SQL- please please do. It's super useful and often managers pick you up for solely that skill.
@E3 I have the master level Microsoft certification. Thanks for the tips everyone
Microsoft Office certification is a thing? Not saying you aren't good at Excel/PowerPoint, but I'll give you the friendly advice that touting your certifications as proof of skill is likely to have the opposite effect as anyone who's worked more than a couple months knows that certifications aren't worth anything (also, expert tool usage doesn't mean you can structure content effectively). To your main question, though, SQL is useful -- even though I've only had to use it once on a project, the ability to understand a data model is valuable even if you aren't in a data role. Happy learning!
No...no one looks at the internal resume except HR, at least at pwc. Keep it there so you can get staffed on projects when they need VBA people but avoid being that "macro guy" that people ask for one-off things. Trust me, it sucks 🤦🏽♀️
Learn basic VBA and SQL and people will love you
Only specified because with many of my peers, you'll get people saying they're "experts" after having written like, a single VLOOKUP. And idk what kind of clients, in the transaction branch though.
^people get those? Does it do anything for the resume?
Depends on your assignment
My clients want to Tableau everything so learning the software was a great asset to me
What type of client?
I second everything P2 said
Lol I got stuck making macros for my clients 😭at least it makes me fairly essential and gives me awesome ratings
@p2 so much on the dl that I take it off my internal resume?
Haha, certified in office products, you spent money on that? Hey OP, did you know that gullible is written on the ceiling?
What kind of consulting do you guys do? Tech?? Never used anything past excel and PPT
Tableau was a big differentiator for me during my stint as an analyst - helped me get staffed and when working for managers that didn't know tableau I could do 1 hr of work and they would be blown away and think it took me many hrs. Maybe less true now because that was back when tableau was just hitting the scene, but still a good skill to have. Learned SQL eventually too, but had to be careful about advertising that skill bc there were a lot of bad projects that wanted SQL skills...