Offices test this, and the test is specific
A large share of office roles around Laxmi Nagar set a short practical test
before hiring.
It is almost always the same shape: format this document properly, produce this
figure from that sheet, merge these letters. Not questions about the software —
tasks with a correct output that either arrives or does not.
So the course is organised around those tasks rather than around a tour of menus,
which is a genuinely different syllabus even where the topics overlap.
Where people are separated
Word competence is expected. Excel competence is noticed.
The gap between someone who types numbers into a sheet and someone who can build
a lookup, a PivotTable and a chart that answers a question is visible within a
month of joining, and it is the difference between being the person who fills in
the report and the person who is asked what the report means.
If your time or budget is limited, spend it on the Excel half.
Long documents break in predictable ways
A twenty-page document formatted by hand falls apart when somebody inserts a
section.
Styles, headings, automatic contents and consistent numbering are unglamorous and
they are why one person’s document survives editing and another’s does not.
Anyone producing reports, proposals or applications will use this constantly.
Mail merge is worth an afternoon
It comes up in almost every office role and almost nobody arrives knowing it.
Two hundred letters, or labels, or certificates, produced correctly in ten
minutes instead of two days. It is a small skill with a disproportionate effect
on how capable you look in your first month.
Getting there
S-551, School Block, Nehru Enclave, Shakarpur — walking distance from Laxmi Nagar
metro, near Bharat Gas Godown.
Machines and software are provided. If you want to practise at home, the free
web versions of Word and Excel cover most of the course, and we will point out
where they do not so a practical test does not surprise you.