Who even uses Microsoft Outlook in real life? (employment, jobs, companies)

[bmexman]

I lost out on a job opportunity by failing to pass the Outlook portion of the computer skills test - I passed the Word and Excel portions.

I have almost no experience with Outlook. A community college I attended used it for email, but I never used it beyond that (and I barely used it anyway). I didn't anticipate how complex Outlook really is - even the front desk girl at the employment agency told me a lot of people think it's just email.

I never learned how to use it in school - my computer class in high school 10 years ago went over Word and Excel but never outlook. Took a computer class in college also - nope.

One would think young people like myself (I'm 26) have an advantage in computer literacy, but most of us haven't worked jobs that use Outlook and are screwed when we have to use it for the first time - we used Word for school, and sometimes Excel, but never Outlook.

[Arcenal813]

We have 3 personal company e-mails issued to us. One by our parent company, one by our contracting company, and one by our client. Each has a separate company domain name. Each of them uses Outlook.
Little things like the messaging tool, the user lookup, etc. do end up being somewhat important in our offices.

[Merchant_ZZZ]

My advice to you is to learn how to use it.

[Arcenal813]

By the way, what you learned in school in Excel probably won't help at all either. I took an MS Office course in college. The kind of stuff I'm finding out Excel can do was never mentioned in class.

[jessxwrites89]

I use it in my personal life; I love Outlook and have been a big fan of it since I was 13 (I'm 25). I used to teach it to professors at my college when I was employed by my college. Google tutorials on how to use it. Microsoft Corporation has a YouTube account with free tutorials on how to use Office products.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by bmexman

I lost out on a job opportunity by failing to pass the Outlook portion of the computer skills test - I passed the Word and Excel portions.

I have almost no experience with Outlook. A community college I attended used it for email, but I never used it beyond that (and I barely used it anyway). I didn't anticipate how complex Outlook really is - even the front desk girl at the employment agency told me a lot of people think it's just email.

I never learned how to use it in school - my computer class in high school 10 years ago went over Word and Excel but never outlook. Took a computer class in college also - nope.

One would think young people like myself (I'm 26) have an advantage in computer literacy, but most of us haven't worked jobs that use Outlook and are screwed when we have to use it for the first time - we used Word for school, and sometimes Excel, but never Outlook.

We use it where I work. In 18 years in I.T., I can count only two companies that didn't use Outlook.

Get a book or use Google. Learn it.

[strikefirefall]

Originally Posted by bmexman

I didn't anticipate how complex Outlook really is - even the front desk girl at the employment agency told me a lot of people think it's just email.
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I'm just finding this out as I read your post.

[johnp292]

By "real life" do you mean outside of work? If so, I understand your question, but if you include work as part of real life, then the answer is "The vast majority of office jobs everywhere."

[BoredRestless]

My company uses outlook also. Better learn it before you miss out on another opportunity.

[e130478]

How the hell do you fail a test involving the use of Outlook? I could understand if the test involved writing automation code via VBA or something, but just basic user knowledge? Ridiculous. Just the subject of your post annoys me. Who even uses Microsoft Outlook? Uhh, pretty much any organization with enterprise computing infrastructure.