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Internship Skills: Technical Skills for the Modern Workplace

Internship Skills: Technical Skills for the Modern Workplace In this post, I use a series of videos to step students through the basic technical skills they need for the average workplace. The most important set of skills a modern worker needs are all related to the Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook. For each of these, there are also non-Office alternatives that are worth considering, but everyone needs to know how to operate successfully in the Office Suite first and foremost. The Microsoft Suite is available online as a software download and it is even available by subscription, which means you would always have access to the most updated version. Word Word is, of course, a text editing program. The best alternatives to consider are Google Documents (in Google Drive) and Apple Pages.A full course of Word training is available here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzj7TwUeMQ3jkkDD_N-nRHQTp9oX7Smam . Excel Excel is a sp...