Microsoft excel: as most of us know, has been around for a very long time. Ever since it became popular in 1993, excel has been widely recognized and accepted as a standard for performing calculations, graphs, macro programming, pivot tables and many other functions which help in decision making for organizational stakeholders. This is one of the must have skills for individuals aspiring for jobs that deal with working on computer applications on a daily basis.

Some of the functions that are expected from an employee with beginner level knowledge of excel functionality are: Sorting data, inserting data into charts, moving data between worksheets in efficient ways, filtering blank cells, wild card search queries, concatenating data etc.