How to learn Excel and Web design by May?

[Anonymous]

A friend told me about a great work from home job opportunity that will be posted in the next few months, and I would love to pivot from my current career as a mental health therapist into this role. However, the job needs Excel and Web Design skills, of which I have neither (other than randomly budgeting with Excel).

How can I gain some basic skills in these areas relatively quickly? Thanks, all!

[Anonymous]

Udemy courses

[Anonymous]

I would just do tutorials on youtube for Excel.

For web design, https://www.freecodecamp.org/ is good

This web dev course has a whole community attached to it, which mostly meets on Discord, but you can probably just follow on YouTube. He makes it very easy to follow. https://www.youtube.com/@learnwithleon/playlists

[Anonymous]

Check out coursesera.

[Anonymous]

Community college

[Anonymous]

Not to be a debbie downer, but most jobs that require certain skillsets want people with work exoerience using the programs/skills which is very different from using them in a class or online tutorial.

Is there a way to quickly do some self taught courses and then do gig work? I can’t think of the names off the top of my head, but there are websites you can use to pick up gig work.

[Anonymous]

If you’re not even capable of doing basic research into whether it is feasible to learn these skills in two months, I don’t think you’re up to the task.

[Anonymous]

Google everything you need it’s work from home so nobody to look over your shoulder to see you Google simple stuff

[Anonymous]

I did this Excel Essentials course when it was on Udemy and it was great. https://www.xelplus.com/courses/

[Anonymous]

With regard to Excel, the best thing you can know is the ability to think "huh, I bet I could do that in excel" + Google + "huh, that does not make sense as an answer, what if I change XYZ"

Literally anything you want to know is out there, but you need to have a brain that sees the shortcut/possibility and the tendency to google till you get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re not even capable of doing basic research into whether it is feasible to learn these skills in two months, I don’t think you’re up to the task.

LOL. YouTube has all OP needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With regard to Excel, the best thing you can know is the ability to think "huh, I bet I could do that in excel" + Google + "huh, that does not make sense as an answer, what if I change XYZ"

Literally anything you want to know is out there, but you need to have a brain that sees the shortcut/possibility and the tendency to google till you get it.

Very true. My attitude is, if I can think of it, someone else has already done it. The biggest challenge is to figure out what to call it - the correct name for the thing you want to do. Sort vs filter vs getting those automatic filters on the top row. Freeze panes - that took me forever to figure out what to call “I want to keep the top row on top as I scroll through a spreadsheet that goes beyond one page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did this Excel Essentials course when it was on Udemy and it was great. https://www.xelplus.com/courses/

I love her - she has a lot of free content on YouTube and I’ve learned a lot from her. I have not taken the paid course.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, everyone! Im sure I can figure it out but want something to put on my resume so that they dont just totally pass me by for an interview. I'll check out the suggestions!

[Anonymous]

You can fake it til you make it with something like excel, but not so much the web dev piece.