PPT FTW

[plumtreeblossom]

In all my years as an admin, PowerPoint proficiency has always been an absolute requirement for getting any of the jobs I've had. So, with each job hunt, I would take or retake the tutorial and get my skills all crisp and ready to make awesome decks. Then with each job, I would proceed to never, ever, ever be asked to do a PowerPoint. I have the functional knowledge but very little practical experience because no one ever asks me to do it.

This week I finally got to create one. Just one slide -- a complex org chart created from scratch with shapes, not the lame org charting tool. I'm pretty darn proud of it. I made it all posh and snappy-looking. It will be included in a presentation that the Dean and our whole staff will see. Maybe I should have put my name in the footer. :-)

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Good for you! I also noticed that job offers required Power Point for everyone almost from the time it made its first appearance. However, none of those companies really understood what it was for. They just asked for it because it was the latest computer technology. Once I knew that fact, I went into job hunts with no fear of Power Point, even though I had never used it. Then one slow day on the job when I actually had nothing to do but "look busy" I took the tutorial and found out how easy it was to do. Amazing!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It's totally easy! I'd be happy to do more.

Years ago I was nearly phobic of Excel. I desperately tried to avoid it. But finally I took a free class that MIT gave in Excel, and now I truly couldn't live without it.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

freelance! I HATE POWERPOINT. I can never get the charts to fit on the damn slides.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. If you have some kind of snipping tool, you could cap and convert your chart to a JPG, and then be able to easily adjust the size to fit. Have you tried something like that?

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

I took a course in Power Point to obtain my Office Systems Technology degree but was NEVER asked to utilize said skills. Glad to hear you were able to create a posh and snappy looking presentation. Way to go, you!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I think that the people who actually give the presentations like to have the control of creating them themselves. Recruiters and HR like to imagine admins who can do all of the PowerPointing, but I see executives pounding away in PowerPoint all the time. Maybe it's just the kind of project that isn't always easy to delegate to someone else.