Google (GOOGL.O) of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) announced on Monday that any U.S. company will receive over $100,000 worth of free online courses in data analytics, design, and other tech skills for their employees.
The offer marks a significant expansion of Google’s Career Certificates program, which began in 2018 with the goal of helping people around the world improve their resumes by learning new technologies at their own speed.
According to Google, over 70,000 people in the United States and 205,000 people worldwide have received at least one certificate, with 75% receiving a benefit such as a new job or higher income within six months.
The Google-designed courses, which are available through online education company Coursera Inc (COUR.N), cost approximately $39 per month and take three to six months to complete. Google will now cover the fees of up to 500 employees at any U.S. company, with grants worth at $100,000 because people typically take up to six months to complete.
Although course completion rates are greater when people pay out of pocket, Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, the company unit in charge of certificates, said the new offer was still beneficial if it could assist some businesses to become digital-savvy.
IT support, project management, e-commerce, and digital marketing certificates are also offered. They encompass well-known tools in each sector, as well as Google’s advertising services.
Google LLC is a multinational technology business based in California that specializes in artificial intelligence, search engines, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. Due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence, its been alluded to as the most powerful firm in the world and one of the world’s most valuable brands.
Google indexes billions of online pages so that users may use keywords and operators to find the information they need. According to November 2009 comScore market data, Google Search is the most popular search engine in the United States, with a market share of 65.6 percent. Google launched a new “Personal” option in Google Search in May 2017, allowing users to search for material in their Google accounts’ various services, such as Gmail messages and photographs from Google Photos.
Google News, an automated program that aggregates news articles from numerous websites, was established in 2002. Google Books is a service that searches the text of books in its database and displays limited previews or the complete text.
