-: Couple things on that,
what I'd say a huge thing is knowing Excel.
Microsoft Excel is huge, knowing your pivot tables,
your VLOOKUPs, knowing the index match formulas,
a lot of that will get you really far in the world.
And that's just kind of a basic understanding.
You'll get asked that in a lot of interviews.
"Do you know Excel?"
Pivot tables, oh, yeah, you're good.
So things like that.
Also, I would say, for finance majors,
I wouldn't shy away from accounting.
I did a year-and-a-half, two-year stint as a cost accountant
and everyone loves having that on my resume.
You get the accounting side,
but you don't get too far down into accounting.
But having that accounting really helps you
understand kind of how the ins and outs,
your credits and debits, how things flow through the system,
and then huge, huge strides for
even finance majors that I've found for myself.
Even doing a stint as an accountant
really, really helps understand some of that stuff.
Because I did financial,
a lot of the financial analysis positions in the front,
and then switched into accounting,
and that really has helped me understand
the balance sheet better, even the PNL,
and just how the inner workings happen.
And looking at some of the analysts
that don't have that background,
they struggle a little bit more.
So don't shy away from that stuff.
It's the ability and the want to dig into things,
to see a number and go, that's not really right,
I should dig into that and figure out what's going on.
It's that, I don't want to say craving,
but looking for something to really just
dig into and want to pull stuff apart,
understand how it works and then
be able to come back with solutions
if you do find a problem.
Or you find a way to do something better.
It's not just sitting there and doing the daily work,
or, hey, I do steps 1 through 10,
I'm done, I get to go home at 4:30.
That's not really what it is.
It's really digging down into the problems
and other things.