Thursday, March 28, 2024

Google to Launch IT Support Certificate Program to Prepare Thousands for Tech Jobs

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Google to Launch IT Support Cert. Tech Jobs for Thousands

*Google has developed a first-of-its-kind IT Support Professional Certificate on Coursera that will help more Americans get the training they need to enter the tech field.

Demand for IT support jobs is increasing. Jobs in this field are projected to grow 10% between 2016 and 2026 — faster than the average of all other occupations. The median annual wage for computer user support specialists was $52,160 in May 2016.

The IT Support Professional Certificate includes industry-relevant content, hands-on labs and widgets developed by Googlers who work in IT, to take learners to job readiness in 8 to 12 months. The program will create a direct path for jobs for thousands of Americans.

Google will provide need-based scholarships and financial assistance to 10,000 learners. As part of this commitment, Google.org is backing a number of leading nonprofit organizations to ensure that underrepresented communities, including low-income learners (Year Up, Per Scholas, Goodwill®); veterans (Student Veterans of America); and refugees (Upwardly Global) have supported free access to the program.

Additionally, full financial assistance will be available through the Coursera sign up page for learners who qualify. The program will also connect graduates with potential employers including Bank of America, Walmart, Sprint, GE Digital, PNC Bank, Infosys, TEKSystems, UPMC, and Google.

Enrollment for the IT Support Professional Certificate program opens on January 16thand programming starts on January 23rd.

For more information, visit https://www.coursera.org/specializations/google-it-support

About Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

The company was launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market the companies search — which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm – at first known as “BackRub” – in 1996. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003.

This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world’s largest media companies. The company launched G News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, G Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011, in addition to many other products. In 2015, Google became the main subsidiary of the holding company, Alphabet Inc.

The search engine went through numerous updates in attempts to combat search engine optimization abuse, provide dynamic updating of results, and make the indexing system rapid and flexible. Search results started to be personalized in 2005, and later GoogleSuggest autocompletion was introduced. From 2007 Universal Search provided all types of content, not just text content, in search results.

The company has engaged in partnerships with NASAAOLSun MicrosystemsNews CorporationSky UK and others. The company set up a charitable offshoot, Google.org, in 2005.

The name is a variant of googol, chosen to suggest very large numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

source:
Saptosa Foster
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