Power Your Job Search with Google Tools 

Discover and track new job opportunities using Google Search, and learn how to organize and enhance your job search experience using Google Workspace tools.

Use Google Tools to Help You Land Your Next Job

Learn how to discover new job opportunities using Google Search and organize your job search experience using G Suite tools. In this workshop we also share strategies to improve your resume, tips to help you communicate effectively online, virtual interview best practices, and the latest resources from Google and other partners to help support job seekers.

Set and Reach Your Career Goals

It's not always easy to develop and shape your own career. The good news is there are plenty of actionable steps to take charge of your career and reach your goals. In this session, you'll learn how to set goals that align with your vision, then identify sacrifices and actions you’ll need to make to achieve them as well as the strengths and weaknesses that will affect your journey. This session will be led by Sarah Liu, international thought leader, speaker, facilitator on next-generation leadership and the Founder and Managing Director of The Dream Collective.

Use Google to Get a New Job

Learn the basics of how to use Google's digital tools to find and prepare for your new job. In this lesson, you'll learn how to set up email alerts, find jobs, use a template to make and save a resume, and then use it to apply to them.  

Tap Into Networking to Find Your Next Job

It’s no secret that navigating the job market can be hard. According to a 2016 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Yale University, 70% of jobs are found through networking. However, this has become even more difficult right now since in-person interaction has significantly decreased. The good news is you can still network virtually from home, and hopefully land your next job. Join us to learn key strategies for positioning your network and unique skill-set to land the position and salary you deserve. This session will be led by Kenneth L. Johnson of The National Urban League, New York Urban League and East Coast Executives.

Effective Networking

Whether you are running a business, making your next professional step, or looking for work, networking can help you take control of your career. This free course will help you build your network and personal brand, both online and in the real world.

Season of Docs

Season of Docs provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source. Together we raise awareness of open source, of docs, and of technical writing.

Technical Writing Courses

Every engineer is also a writer. This collection of courses and learning resources aims to improve your technical documentation. Learn how to plan and author technical documents. You can also learn about the role of technical writers at Google.

Build Confidence with Self-Promotion

Learning to speak openly about your achievements will help others understand your strengths and skills. In these course videos, we'll discuss self-promotion and why it can be so difficult, and also share practical tips on boosting your confidence and self-worth to enable you to progress further in your career.

Build Your Personal Brand Online

A tailored online presence can help attract new opportunities online, whether it’s a shot at a new role or new customers for your business. If you’re considering how to present yourself or your small business online, join us to learn about branding and ways to build your online profile. In this session you will learn how to define your personal brand, steps to set up your brand presence, and ways to increase your online visibility.

Seek Business Financing and Overcome Objections

Women Will is a Grow with Google program that focuses on economic empowerment for women across the world. In this two-part workshop tailored to aspiring women entrepreneurs, you will learn how to plan, launch and grow your business. In Part 2 we will discuss how to seek finances, boost sales, and improve your negotiation strategies. Plus, learn how to turn objections and criticisms into powerful tools to improve your business

Negotiate Your Salary

Learn how to gather facts, organize information, and determine the right time for you to ask for a raise. Learn what to do before you sit down with your supervisor to ask for a raise, including steps to help you gather facts, organize your thoughts and information, and decide whether this is the right time to ask for a raise.

Success Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills

We all negotiate on a daily basis. On a personal level, we negotiate with friends, family, landlords, car sellers and employers, among others. Negotiation is also the key to business success. No business can survive without profitable contracts. Within a company, negotiation skills can lead to your career advancement.

Ace Your Next Job Interview

Learn practical tips and strategies to help you go into interviews feeling confident and ready to shine. This workshop will show you how to prepare, practice, and be present at interviews for any new job.

Improve Your Resume with Practical Strategies

Read a resume like a hiring manager. In this workshop, you’ll get four strategies to improve your resume and a checklist of tips to help you communicate your strengths.

Start a CV

Select a CV template from Google Docs. Use the headings and your experiences to add your information to the CV.

Edit Your CV

Edit your CV to make it stronger and more appealing to an employer.

Launch Your Business with Customer-Focused Marketing - Part 1

As a new entrepreneur, you’ll need more than good products or services to grow your business. It’s also important to have strong customer-focused marketing strategies to reach a targeted audience and turn them into loyal customers. In part one of this two-part workshop, you will learn how to create a compelling brand, define the right target audience for your business, and shape the customer journey from awareness to consideration.

Launch Your Business with Customer-Focused Marketing - Part 2

As a new entrepreneur, you’ll need more than good products or services to grow your business. It’s also important to have strong customer-focused marketing strategies to reach a targeted audience and turn them into loyal customers. In part two of this two-part workshop, you will learn the last stages of the customer journey from purchase to advocacy. We will walk through how to convert customers with the right content and an easy checkout process, as well as how to build loyalty and advocacy with online reviews and referral programs. 

Make Your Website Work for You - Part 1

Learn how to create a search-friendly website that drives user action and supports your goals. Whether you’re launching a new website or sprucing up an old one, this workshop will help. Part 1 will focus on the basics of building out a website focused on goals, organization, functionality and SEO.

 Solve Key Business Questions with Data and Analytics

For small businesses already using Google Analytics, this workshop will teach you about valuable metrics, data reports and techniques for segmenting your customers and discovering insights that help answer your key business questions. 

Make Better Business Decisions with Analytics - Part 1

Learn best practices and analyze trends about how customers engage with your business online, then turn these insights into well-informed, actionable decisions. Part 1 will focus on setting up Analytics, asking yourself targeted questions when analyzing data, and accessing the reports that will give you the most valuable insights into your customers.

Make Better Business Decisions with Analytics - Part 2

Learn best practices and analyze trends about how customers engage with your business online, then turn these insights into well-informed, actionable decisions. Part 2 will focus on intermediate Google Analytics activities like setting up goals, utilizing secondary dimensions, analyzing custom segments and connecting your data to other Google tools.

Jump-Start Your Career in Data Analytics

If you’re curious about how things work and love to identify trends, a career in data analytics may be within reach. Join this session that covers tips for breaking into this in-demand field through a Google Career Certificate. We’ll discuss more about this role, what you’ll accomplish in the course, and how to get started. Google Career Certificates will be available globally in English on Coursera. We are working to make the certificates available in more languages.

Collaborate, Meet, and Work Remotely

Learn about Google tools that can help you work and stay productive no matter where you are. Discover how to schedule and host effective virtual meetings, collaborate on documents with others in real time, and access your files from anywhere—even from your phone. Plus, get tips on more free online resources to help you gain new digital skills.

Send Professional Emails

Learn how to write professional emails for specific workplace situations. Learn the basics of writing workplace emails. In this lesson you'll learn about the different parts of an email and some general rules, then you'll practice writing and sending emails for different situations.

Plan Effective Meetings

Conduct successful meetings with digital tools. Create and share a meeting agenda, collect feedback, take notes, and assign action items. Learn about the importance of meetings, and how digital tools can help you make them successful. In this lesson, you'll plan out your meeting with an agenda, share it with the attendees, and conduct it online.

Conflict Transformation

This course introduces you to the concept of conflict transformation and how it differs from conflict resolution, management, and prevention. We’ll see how conflict offers opportunities for constructive change, and we'll explore different tools and methods for engaging conflict constructively. Regardless of your familiarity with the topic, you'll get insightful tips, portable handouts, lively demonstrations, and personalised assignments to bridge and enhance your own knowledge and history within the conflict narrative. In any area of your life, you'll benefit from the practical techniques and transferable information offered throughout this five-week journey.

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments 

This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyse, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you.

Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively

Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you.

Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively

Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you.

Coach Your Team to Success

Understand the attributes and behaviors that make the best managers. Learn and build your skills as a coach for your team. Provide meaningful and developmental feedback to your team to maximize their performance and development.

High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation

Are leaders born or made? Learn the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire, design teams for collaboration, and craft win-win negotiation strategies. High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation focuses on leadership, teamwork, and negotiation. Students will engage in self-assessments to analyse their leadership style, develop team charters to optimise their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.

Leading and Managing People-Centred Change

Learn how to bring people with you during periods of organisational change. On this course, you'll learn about the importance of leadership during these times and build people-based approaches to gain commitment from your team to sustain long-term changes within your business.

Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels.

Foundations of Everyday Leadership

In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success, and learn the foundations of effective leadership skills.

Influencing People

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others.

Create a Compelling Presentation Deck

Learn to create and deliver effective presentations that communicate information and engage your audience. In part one of this two-part workshop series, you’ll learn best practices for building a visually appealing presentation in Google Slides.

Deliver an Engaging Presentation Talk

Learn to create and deliver effective presentations that communicate information and engage your audience. In part two of this two-part workshop series, you’ll learn how the “prepare, practice, perform” approach can set you up for a successful presentation.

Jump-Start Your Career in Project Management

If solving problems, staying organized, and working with people is in your wheelhouse, a career in project management may be within reach. Join this session that covers tips for breaking into this in-demand field through a Google Career Certificate. We’ll discuss more about this role, what you’ll accomplish in the course, and how to get started. Google Career Certificates will be available globally in English on Coursera. We are working to make the certificates available in more languages.

Enhance Your Project Management Skills with Google Tools - Part 2

Learn how to create a successful project plan, organize your work, and track and share progress from start to finish using Google Docs and Google Sheets. Part 2 will focus on tracking your project plan and sharing with collaborators.

Create a Project Plan with Google Sheets

In this two-part workshop, you will learn how to create a successful project plan, organize your work, and track and share progress from start to finish using Google Docs and Google Sheets. This first part will focus on building an effective project plan.

Track Your Project with Google Sheets

In this two-part workshop, you will learn how to create a successful project plan, organize your work, and track and share progress from start to finish using Google Docs and Google Sheets. This second part will focus on tracking your project plan and sharing with collaborators.

Business Fundamentals: Project Management

Improve your project management skills and gain tools and techniques to deliver your projects to the original scope and deadlines. Gain an introduction to project management and build the skills and techniques you need to keep your projects on track. This courses will provide you with an awareness of ethics within project management, communication tools and techniques for engaging project stakeholders, and resources to manage your project team effectively.

Manage Project Communication

Manage communication for your large-scale group project with digital tools. Use digital tools to manage communication for a large-scale project that benefits your organization or community. In this lesson, you'll create an email contact group, write an email to a group, and create a meeting agenda.

Communicate Your Ideas Through Storytelling and Design

Discover the power of ideas, and explore the tools and techniques you can use to capture your audience’s attention.

Your ideas become more powerful if you learn how to share them. In this free course you'll build a toolkit of simple tools to help you organise and share your ideas effectively. You’ll learn how to take advantage of storyboards, mind maps, images and storytelling to capture the attention of your audience. Soon enough you’ll be able to create effective, engaging, and fun presentations.

Optimize Your Energy for High Performance

Learn how to more effectively balance your energy and master your time to enhance overall productivity. You will get practical guidance, resources, and exercises to incorporate in work and life.

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity

You will be able to gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organisation and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you have learned in goal setting, prioritisation, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity.

Giving Helpful Feedback

This course teaches you the simple principles expert managers use to improve and motivate employee performance. You’ll never have to avoid telling an employee “the truth” again, because the seven techniques we teach will not make employees defensive or afraid. As a manager, or someone who would like to be a manager, you’ll also learn specifically what feedback is, how negative feedback is weighed more heavily than positive, and how positive feedback can super-charge behaviors such as creativity and teamwork.

Give and Receive Feedback

Learn how to give feedback to improve someone else's work, and to receive it to improve your own. In this lesson, you'll create an invitation with a partner for the purpose of providing each other with feedback.

Influencing People

This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization. You will also learn influence tactics that enable you to be more persuasive and influential in working with your superiors, peers, and even subordinates. In addition, you will learn how to build and maintain high-quality relationships to further maximize your informal power and ability to influence others. Importantly, you will distinguish between influence and manipulation and learn how to protect yourself from the unwanted influence of others.