Before applying for a role with ProResource, please make sure your technical skills are up-to-date. We require that everyone here be able to do the following:

Microsoft Word

• Format text
• Add, resize and move images
• Turn on track changes, review changes, accept or reject
• Get a word/character count for all or part of a document
• Create and use tables
• Print
• Convert a document to pdf

Microsoft Excel

• Insert and modify text and equations
• Format text
• Auto-sum a column or row
• Change formatting of each cell, add color fill
• Sort on various fields
• Print

Google Doc Spreadsheet

• Same as Excel
• Give and remove permissions on a file

Gmail

• Set up account
• Format text
• Insert an image
• Send from different email addresses
• Add and remove an attachment
• Use cc and bcc
• Insert and remove hyperlinks
• Add sig file
• Add a vacation message
• Insert and modify a table

Google Calendar

• Add an event, modify and delete
• Send meeting invites
• View someone else’s calendar and enter an appointment

Google Drive

• Upload file to Drive, find it
• Share a file
• Change permissions on a file

Dropbox

• Upload file to Dropbox, find it
• Share a file
• Change permissions on a file

LinkedIn

• Update a personal profile
• Turn off notifications
• Post a status update that mentions a connection and tags them
• Upload a blog post and format it, add tags and images
• Send connect requests, messages and InMails
• Identify the different types of ads
• Copy the url of a profile page and paste it into a spreadsheet
• Determine if someone is blogging or doing status updates
• Find out how many connections someone has
• Endorse someone
• Follow someone
• Post a status update on a company page

Paint, Photoshop or other image editing software

• Resize an image to specific pixel dimensions
• Add text to an image

GoToMeeting

• Set up a meeting and give it a title
• Send login info to participants via email and calendar invite
• Start, manage and end a meeting
• Share your desktop
• Turn the video on and off
• Use the chat
• Mute and unmute people
• Give controls to another participant
• Record a meeting and find the recording

Skype

• Find a contact and invite them to connect
• Start, manage and end a call
• Share your desktop
• Share URLs and files
• Use the chat
• Turn the video on and off

For Advanced Users

WordPress

• Modify text on a page
• Format text
• Upload an image, add it to a page, resize the image, add alt tags
• Add meta tags
• Insert and remove a hyperlink
• Add and remove an email address
• Preview
• Save changes and update page
• Create new page
• Plus all of the same for blog posts
• Add categories to a blog post

Twitter

• Post tweet, like, retweet
• Follow and unfollow
• Edit bio
• Use hashtags

If there are things on this list you don’t know how to do, the easiest way to learn is to go to YouTube and look for a video.