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I disagree. Problem solving, interpersonal skills are what the interview process should gauge for analysts. Excel and PPT can be learned in time. Pretty much anyone can be competent in those within a few weeks
Imagine: studying for 4 years at a reputable university, learning critical thinking techniques and building your skill set, just to be told by a PowerPoint jockey that your “skills” aren’t good enough to progress though the interview process.
Posts like this make your firm look very shortsighted. And this is coming from someone who instinctively hates how much we coddle campus hires.
Those are teachable. They're interviewing for non-teachable qualities
Dude, they’re analysts out of college. Were you amazing at either before you got this job? The really bad ones will eventually get weeded out. Your job is find the coachable ones and groom them.
OP be like "It's appalling how bad a babies waking and talking skills are"
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Man stfu and continue on with you shitty life. Like you knew everything from the get go.
No undergrad program requires extensive use of PPT or Excel. You write a ton of papers in APA format and throw together half assed slides for group presentations during undergrad. Rarely ever do any extensive Excel modeling.
Excel/PPT are just a means to an end. The core skills are critical thinking, mathematical thinking, determining important issues and synthesizing those. Anyone can pick up Excel and PPT. If they're not getting it, you're teaching them the wrong stuff
I thought there was no way this was a serious post.
Hey Op I can share some advice on what my manager (a true coach) did for me on my first engagement. We were building complex excel models and my excel skills were all but average. He essentially took one of our deliverables (one model), and wrote me a long ass email and highlighted every formula that was wrong, recommended what formulas to use, hell he even called me out on formatting. All this to the point and not one taunt and ended the email@saying let me know if you need anything I’m free today evening. I was so embarrassed I went through his feedback line by Line and literally fixed everything. In subsequent models I used this as my benchmark. Just a tip
To elaborate on my post look at all the investment baking analysts who studied liberal arts at an Ivy. They didn't touch excel in school and can start building complex models fairly quickly. It can be learned.
Consulting is about learning on the job. If your analyst isn't good right now teach them. Give them some tips, share some resources that taught you. They may work longer hours since they're still slow but they'll get better with practice the majority of the time
Thanks for the constructive feedback to the most of you; good learning point for me and I will introspect more on how I can improve. For context, yes this analyst said they're extremely proficient at excel and ppt on their resume, guess it's all arbitrary. Also for everyone calling me a Dick and the analyst a he, we both have vaginas!
Maybe YOU did not prepare your analyst for what he was getting into. I wouldn't throw my people into the Lions Den, unless I knew they were ready for it. If he "froze," he probably was not briefed or trained into the role properly.
OP you are giving the firm a bad reputation with this post. Maybe it would've been fine had you stated you TRIED to help and the analyst was still performing poorly/not meeting expectations, but come on...people took a chance on your sorry butt to get you to this position and this is how you repay your seniors? Get your act together draft a polite and pointed email to the analyst ^^ line by line as suggested above and let the analyst have a shot to redeem him or herself. In addiction, take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself is this the kind of manager you want to be? Hopefully the answer is no and that you too can see you have room for improvement. Agree with everyone above that no one is going to have excel/PPT mastery day one and if they do assess how their presentation skills are. Everyone has room for improvement...
OP you're probably one of those people whose only skills are excel and powerpoint and you'll be stuck in consulting forever
It's appalling how bad some consultants are at coaching basic skills to new folks. There needs to be way of judging basic empathy and teamwork during the interview process.
I'm glad I don't work with OP. What a dick.
That's why they're called analysts. They're not experienced and it's part of YOUR performance review to Develop them. You know.... the "people developer" section of the PFF.
Google brah, show him slide cow on youtube and tons of free excel on kx 🤦♂️ smh
You know what: good on you. I take back any negative connotation in my response. I respect, sincerely, your capacity to reflect and introspect. This differentiates you from a ton of our peers in this business.
I feel you for being frustrated with a skill gap, but damn if we weren’t all there in some respect at that stage in our careers.
Again, I respect everything about how you handled this convo. Kudos.
I was live excel tested for one of my first roles as an analyst..was rusty and didn't "pass". They missed out on great talent on something that I could've brushed up on in a few days.