Do you love your job?
According to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.resumebuilder.com/despite-labor-market-turmoil-87-of-workers-love-or-like-their-jobs/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">ResumeBuilder.com survey</a>, &ldquo;Nearly 6 in 10 workers who like or love their job say it&rsquo;s because their work is personally fulfilling and meaningful.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Making work personally fulfilling and meaningful often means taking a proactive approach to your career development. For some people, that means working with a mentor 1-on-1. For others, it means going back to get that traditional 4-year college degree.
But there is another option.
Upskilling and reskilling with a Google Career Certificate isn&rsquo;t just about helping you advance your career and make more money (although that part is great), it&rsquo;s also about building a career that fits your lifestyle, finding a fulfilling career path with growth opportunities, and giving you the confidence you need to bring your best self to work every day.
We know that signing up for a certificate program can feel like a big commitment. Here&rsquo;s what you need to know.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">What to Expect from the Google Career Certificate Program</h2>
The certificates will help you to gain the in-demand skills that you need to succeed in the following industries:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/digital-marketing-ecommerce/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Digital Marketing and E-commerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/project-management/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Project Management</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/data-analytics/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Data Analytics</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/it-support/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">IT Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/ux-design/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">UX Design</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grow.google/certificates/cybersecurity/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Cybersecurity</a></li>
</ul>
<a href="https://grow.google/certificates/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Completing a Google Career Certificate often takes between 3 - 6 months</a> depending on how much time you devote to your studies. Whether it&rsquo;s your first time learning about the field, or you&rsquo;ve already been doing some learning, the curriculum teaches you the foundational skills employers are looking for along with hands-on exercises that you can use as examples of your newfound expertise in your job search.
The courses within the certificate program are made up of a mix of video lessons, readings, practical exercises, and peer-graded work. There is community support throughout the process with discussion boards and social media groups.
But the best part is the results. Here&rsquo;s what some CareerCircle members had to say about their experience completing a Google Career Certificate.
A graduate who had plenty of experience in logistics and customer service, but wanted to increase and stabilize their professional growth shared, &ldquo;Through completing the [IT Support] certificate and some assistance with my resume and interviewing from CareerCircle, I found a new position [with] a significant pay bump for me ($8 more an hour), and it's a direct role with a company that will help boost my growth. So grateful for the opportunity, I couldn't have done it without the certificate and the assistance!&rdquo;
For another Google Career Certificate graduate, it &ldquo;was an amazing boost to my resume. Within just a couple of weeks of completing it I had several different interviews, and shortly after that I was able to secure several offers and was able to pick whichever I wanted. There is a lot of opportunity in this field, and the certificate is a great place to start.&rdquo;
&nbsp;
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Grow with Google and CareerCircle Partnership</h2>
In February of this year, CareerCircle partnered withGoogle Career Certificates to provide career resources to program graduates in the U.S.
When you complete your Google Career Certificate, you&rsquo;ll be directed to sign up for a CareerCircle profile in order to get access to the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium, over 150 employers who have committed to considering hiring certificate graduates.
Beyond that, you also get access to career resources like interview prep, 1-on-1 coaching, resume building support, etc. You&rsquo;ll be backed and supported by the CareerCircle team, and you can feel confident that we are unstoppable in our desire to get every one of our members into the role they&rsquo;ve been dreaming of.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Frequently Asked Questions</h2>

<h3>Are Google Career Certificates free?</h3>
They can be! CareerCircle offers scholarships for all Google Career Certificates. To learn more and apply, visit our <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/courses" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">courses page</a>.
&nbsp;
<h3>Are Google Career Certificates worth it?</h3>
Absolutely! <a href="https://grow.google/certificates/?utm_source=careercircle&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=earn_gcc" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">75% of graduates report a positive career outcome</a>, like getting a new job, promotion, or raise, and often feel more confident and capable in their roles. While the Google Career Certificate takes time and effort to complete, it provides the basis you need to break into the industry you&rsquo;re most interested in.
&nbsp;
<h3>Do employers care about Google Career Certificates?</h3>
Yes! Google Career Certificates help you stand out among applicants because they highlight your dedication to learning and development and make your resume competitive with a credential from Google. Completing a Google Career Certificate also gives you access to the Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium, a group of over 150 employers who have committed to valuing and considering hiring people who have completed their certificate.
&nbsp;
<h3>How long do Google Career Certificates take to complete?</h3>
You can complete the program completely online and at your own pace. Completion often takes between 3 and 6 months, but it depends on your personal learning speed. It&rsquo;s recommended to spend about 10 hours a week on your studies.
&nbsp;
<h3>What happens after I complete my Google Career Certificate?</h3>
After you complete your certificate, you&rsquo;ll be directed to sign up for a CareerCircle profile where you will be able to access all of the career resources you need to get into a new role. When you sign up for that profile, the first thing you should do is <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/how-to-verify-your-google-career-certificate-in-careercircle" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">verify your certificate</a> to help employers see your profile.

Ultimately, the Google Career Certificate program is a great option for anybody looking to switch careers or expand their knowledge in their existing one. It will take time and effort, but the rewards are limitless.

We know that signing up for a certificate program can feel like a big commitment. Here’s what you need to know.

Why You Should Earn a Google Career Certificate

One of the values we live by here at CareerCircle is to be the change you want to see.
When we realized that people&rsquo;s experience went beyond their resume, we created the <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/how-the-360deg-candidate-view-helps-hiring-managers-find-the-right-fit" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Candidate 360&deg; profile</a>. When we saw that the technology industry was sorely lacking in diversity, we started partnering with non-profit organizations who worked with underserved communities.&nbsp;
And this Mental Health Awareness Month, when <a href="https://www.stress.org/workplace-stress#:~:text=83%25%20of%20US%20workers%20suffer,stress%20affects%20their%20personal%20relationships." rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">83% of US workers report job-related stress</a>, we&rsquo;ve decided to tackle how work can be a place for wellness.
Now don&rsquo;t get us wrong&hellip;it&rsquo;s a challenge. But we&rsquo;re a team who has never shied away from a challenge.&nbsp;
In fact, we&rsquo;re the team who recently <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/the-power-of-changing-941-lives" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">helped 941 people get hired in less than 941 days</a> so we know that when we set our minds to something, we&rsquo;re going to accomplish it.
&nbsp;
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Kicking Off Our Wellness Journey Together</h2>
Our wellness initiative kicked off with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-sneeder-a49a723/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Kim Sneeder</a>, our Managing Director, opening the floor to the team to share with her one thing they love about the company culture and one that we need to change.
Because our leadership team and Kim, in particular, has been dedicated to creating a culture of transparency and honesty from day one, it wasn&rsquo;t an issue to be completely honest about what we were facing. One of the recurring topics that was brought up was focusing on wellness at work through professional development, accountability, and more.
<img src="https://cdn.buttercms.com/ewxYLMy9QSG7oMjZAwvH" alt="Image of CareerCircle team making homemade cards for kids" width="488" height="256" class="butter-float-right">
With this feedback in mind, the leadership team invited <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedcapshaw/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Ted Capshaw</a>, a business coach and dedicated leader who helps people and companies grow before tragedy, to speak with us at our <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7048678297672536064" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">National</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7048678297672536064" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">&nbsp;Team Meeting</a> about the 8 pillars of wellness:
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Emotional</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Mental</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Physical</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Professional</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Financial</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Community</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Relationships/Connection</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Spiritual/Values</li>
</ul>
The presentation sparked one of the most important conversations we&rsquo;ve had amongst our team. People opened up about how work interacts with their life and the goals they have to make the changes they need to make. It also prompted the 3 key changes at our company we&rsquo;re implementing.

<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">How We&rsquo;re Supporting Wellness at Work</h2>

After our conversations at our National Team Meeting, we took a pulse survey of our team to learn which pillars are most important to them. Spiritual/Values overwhelmingly took the top spot with mental and physical health tied in second. We knew that we needed to give people space to discover what they valued alongside the ability to live those values at work and be able to prioritize their health in ways they hadn&rsquo;t been.
&nbsp;
<h3 dir="ltr">Team Accountability Groups</h3>
We&rsquo;re an action-oriented company so it didn&rsquo;t take long for our team to realize that we would reach our goals better if we worked together. As our team began to share the pillars that we wanted to focus on individually, accountability groups began to spawn amongst those who shared the same goals.&nbsp;
These accountability groups will be helping to support each other on hard days, provide resources to learn and grow together, and, most importantly, give us a chance to connect on topics outside of our day-to-day work.

<h3 dir="ltr">Company-Wide Development Events</h3>
Beyond our accountability groups and our individual wellness days, CareerCircle as a company is also committing to providing development events that any team member can join. These will be anything from meetings about stress management or building your brand on LinkedIn to fireside chats about the challenges we&rsquo;re facing.
These events will give us a chance to join together as a team to get a pulse on how our wellness efforts are going and make sure that we&rsquo;re staying true to our goal of prioritizing wellness at work.
&nbsp;
<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Building Your Own Wellness At Work Initiative</h2>
According to a post from RallyBright, <a href="https://www.rallybright.com/feeling-undervalued-at-work/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">almost 50% of American workers have left a job due to feeling undervalued</a>. Investing in wellness at work is just one of the ways that you can help your employees feel valued every day. Building a wellness at work initiative doesn&rsquo;t have to take weeks of market research and sign off. It can be made up of small, but intentional shifts in the way that work happens in someone&rsquo;s life.
We kicked off our efforts by simply opening up the conversation with our team. Asking questions like, &ldquo;What does our company do well?&rdquo; and &ldquo;What do we need to work on?&rdquo; are an easy way to get the suggestions rolling in. Remember that this effort will only work if employees see actual change come from these conversations so only open them when you&rsquo;re ready to take action.
When you&rsquo;ve had those conversations, cater your initiative to what people really want. If the overwhelming majority of employees want more support when it comes to setting boundaries at work and you choose to initiate 5 minutes of stretching at the start of every meeting, you&rsquo;re not supporting the needs of your team. Every team is different and they deserve personalized care.
It is also critical for leaders to know that words need to match actions. While it is wonderful to say that you care about your team&rsquo;s mental health, it means more to provide appropriate time off and a focus on workload management. Remember to also practice what you preach, leading with vulnerability and honesty will encourage your team to come to work in the same way. 

Ultimately, there is always more work to be done to value wellness at work, but we wanted to share the changes that we are making to inspire you to do the same for your workplace. Let us know on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7058848435956801537/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> what you&rsquo;re doing to prioritize wellness at work!

One of the values we live by is to be the change you want to see. Here's how we're doing that when it comes to wellness at work.

Being the Change for Wellness at Work

One of the values we live by here at CareerCircle is to be the change you want to see. Here's how we're doing that when it comes to wellness at work.

When you&rsquo;re breaking into a new industry, like <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/course/google-digital-marketing-and-ecommerce" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Digital Marketing</a> or <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/course/google-ux-design" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">UX Design</a>, Google Career Certificates can help you get your foot in the door and build out a professional portfolio that can help you on your job search.&nbsp;
Here at CareerCircle, we believe that the people, like you, who work their way through a certificate program are some of the most tenacious and valuable people in the workplace and we want to make sure that you get credit for all of your hard work.
On your Candidate 360&deg; profile, we provide space for you to identify the certificate you&rsquo;ve earned, but verifying your certificate by uploading a copy of it will take you even further.
<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">How to Verify Your Google Career Certificate</h2>
By verifying your certificate on your profile, you're proving to employers and hiring managers that you are dedicated to your field and your professional development. Beyond that, profiles with verified certificates are boosted in search results when hiring managers and our own recruiters are searching the platform.
Here&rsquo;s how Google Career Certificate completers can verify their certificate: 
<ol>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://login.careercircle.com/login?state=hKFo2SBVVm1vZWZGeXN4dEx3QVplMmpqWlg3TWw4NmhmWE9RaKFupWxvZ2luo3RpZNkgVDVkNjVmUHVTQTFkRmpPOExseEJ3UHZxTDhLdE1QU3OjY2lk2SBsaFlwZDE1M3hZVXliOXZVc0lmbVVpYTl6R1NuNG96Zg&amp;client=lhYpd153xYUyb9vUsIfmUia9zGSn4ozf&amp;protocol=oauth2&amp;scope=openid%20profile%20email%20offline_access&amp;response_type=code&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.careercircle.com%2Fapi%2Fauth%2Fcallback&amp;connection=Username-Password-Authentication&amp;audience=https%3A%2F%2Fcareercircle.azure-api.net&amp;acr_values=%7B%22registration%22%3A%22%22%2C%22role%22%3A%22candidate%22%2C%22social%22%3A%22%22%7D&amp;nonce=ebd4a68cacc6b6cced761a3b2134af82" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Login to your profile</a> and navigate to your dashboard</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Click &ldquo;Add Your Google Career Certificate&rdquo;</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Select the certificate you completed</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Customize your headline and create a job alert</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Click the gray box and upload an image of your certificate</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Select &ldquo;Apply Changes&rdquo;</li>
</ol>
And that&rsquo;s it!
To see a step-by-step of this process, you can view a Scribe training&nbsp;<a href="https://scribehow.com/shared/How_to_Add_and_Verify_Your_Google_Career_Certificate__Rhj30mD7QdaUolNKZ1Ix_w" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.
<h2 dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">What&rsquo;s Next?</h2>
Once you&rsquo;ve verified your certificate, we recommend you do three more things:
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Set up a job alert based on that certificate: If you didn&rsquo;t do this while uploading your certificate, you can <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/how-to-set-up-job-alerts-to-find-the-right-job-postings" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">follow these steps</a> to set up a job alert based on your certificate and get jobs delivered directly to your inbox.</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Schedule 1-on-1 coaching to continue your career journey: Our recruiters are here to help you and that means you can schedule time with us to go over what you need to do for your job search. The best part? It&rsquo;s totally free to you! To schedule a coaching call, email <a href="mailto:team@careercircle.com" rel="nofollow">team@careercircle.com &nbsp;</a></li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Visit the Resources page:&nbsp;As a Google Career Certificate completer, you have access to a full Resource page filled with tools to help you on your career journey. Check out the interview warmup tool, <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/resume-builder" rel="follow">resume builder</a>, <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/faq" rel="follow">FAQs</a> from top recruiters, and more!&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
 If you have any questions, don&rsquo;t hesitate to <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/contact" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">contact us</a>!

On your Candidate 360° profile, verifying your certificate by uploading a copy of it will take you even further.

How To Verify Your Google Career Certificate in CareerCircle

On your Candidate 360° profile, we provide space for you to identify the certificate you’ve earned, but verifying your certificate by uploading a copy of it will take you even further.

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