It's appalling how bad new associate excel/ppt skills are. There needs to be a way of judging 'readiness' during the interview process.

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Those are teachable. They're interviewing for non-teachable qualities

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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

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There needs to be way of judging basic empathy and teamwork during the interview process.

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We honestly don’t even use excel much and never use PPT. I might be doing this wrong.

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I hand them a laptop with word and Excel open and ask them to write a simple letter to a client stating I missed a signature on a form and do a simple calculation in a Excel. Under the guise that I am reviewing their other information, I get to see their confidence working the software first hand.

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Never used excel or ppt as an FA. What am I missing?

Agree ... interpersonal skills are harder to train in our business. PPT and XL can be trained if you need it.

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