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Develop Your AI Skills with Google’s AI Professional Certificate
The Google AI Professional Certificate is Google’s most comprehensive AI training program — seven hands-on courses that teach you to apply AI across planning, research, communication, content creation, data analysis and app building. Available at no cost through the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator® with support from Google.org, the program takes under 10 hours, requires no prior experience and earns you a professional-level Google AI certification recognized by employers.
With support from Google.org, Goodwill® offers the Google AI learning track at no cost to you for a limited time.
- Google Prompting Essentials: Learn a five-step framework for writing clear, effective AI prompts — and build a reusable prompt library you can apply to any AI tool.
- Google AI Essentials: Learn the foundations of AI and get hands-on experience using generative AI tools.
- Accelerate Your Job Search with AI: Learn how to use AI tools to make your job search more efficient and effective.
- Google AI Professional Certificate: Strengthen your professional skills by using AI to generate plans, tailor content, analyze data and build your own suite of reusable AI assets.
Explore the free Google AI Professional Certificate today →
Go Beyond AI Basics — Become AI-Fluent
Understanding what AI is matters. But knowing how to use it — across the tasks and projects that define your workday — is what sets you apart. The Google AI Professional Certificate is the most comprehensive program in the Google AI training track. While AI Essentials teaches foundations and Prompting Essentials focuses on writing effective prompts, this certificate takes you further: you’ll apply AI to six real-world work domains and build a portfolio of over 20 job-ready solutions.
This isn’t a theoretical overview. Designed by Google experts and validated by employers, the program teaches you to use Gemini, NotebookLM, Google Workspace AI features and Google AI Studio to brainstorm, research, communicate, create content, analyze data and even build custom AI applications — all without needing to write code. Every skill you learn maps directly to what hiring managers are looking for right now.
Thanks to support from Google.org, Goodwill provides this AI certification at no cost through the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator. No experience required.
What You’ll Learn in the Google AI Professional Certificate
The Google AI Professional Certificate is a seven-course program that can be completed in under 10 hours. Each course focuses on a specific domain where AI is transforming work, so you build practical skills you can apply immediately.
1. AI Fundamentals
Build a strong foundation of AI skills. Learn fundamental generative AI concepts, construct effective prompts using a structured framework, evaluate AI outputs for accuracy and bias and identify opportunities to use AI in your own workflow.
2. AI for Brainstorming and Planning
Use AI as a creative thought partner to generate and expand on project ideas, evaluate options against decision criteria, strengthen project plans by identifying gaps and risks and build centralized knowledge hubs to keep everything organized.
3. AI for Research and Insights
Turn AI into a research assistant. Use Gemini Deep Research to synthesize multiple sources into comprehensive reports, build research notebooks to extract themes across documents and create custom AI experts for new perspectives on your work.
4. AI for Writing and Communicating
Sharpen your professional communications with AI. Synthesize meeting transcripts into summaries and action items, get critical feedback on your work before high-stakes reviews and tailor messages for different audiences using Gemini Canvas.
5. AI for Content Creation
Create professional visual content with AI. Generate high-quality images and videos from creative concepts, transform slide decks into engaging presentations, establish brand-consistent design guidelines and get AI-driven feedback on creative work.
6. AI for Data Analysis
Let AI help you make sense of data. Identify success metrics, clean and structure messy datasets with effective prompts, generate spreadsheet formulas using natural language in Google Sheets and create data visualizations that communicate insights clearly.
7. AI for App Building
Build your own AI tools without writing code. Identify workflow challenges that a custom AI solution can solve, use vibe coding to translate natural language into working web applications, debug with AI assistance and explore Google AI Studio for more advanced solutions.
When you complete all seven courses, you earn a Google AI Professional Certificate — a career credential that demonstrates your ability to use AI productively across every major work domain. You can share it on LinkedIn, your résumé or your CV.
Benefits of the Google AI Professional Certificate
This AI professional certification will prepare you to:
- Apply AI across six work domains: planning, research, communication, content creation, data analysis and app building.
- Build a portfolio of 20+ job-ready AI solutions you can use at work immediately.
- Use Google’s professional AI toolkit — Gemini, NotebookLM, AI Studio and Workspace AI features.
- Earn a Google AI certification recognized by employers across industries.
Start Building AI Skills Employers Are Looking For
AI literacy is rapidly becoming a baseline expectation in the workplace — not a nice-to-have, but a skill hiring managers actively look for. The Google AI Professional Certificate gives you the hands-on experience to prove you can use AI to deliver real results, not just talk about it.
Goodwill provides this training at no cost through the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator. Fill out the form above, check your email for your invitation and start building the AI skills that set you apart today!
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Google AI Professional Certificate?
The Google AI Professional Certificate is a seven-course online program created by Google and offered at no cost through the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator. It teaches you to apply AI across six key work domains — brainstorming, research, communication, content creation, data analysis and app building — using tools like Gemini, NotebookLM and Google AI Studio. You complete it in under 10 hours and earn a professional-level Google AI certification.
How long does the Google AI Professional Certificate take?
The program consists of seven courses that can be completed in about an hour each, for a total of approximately 10 hours. It’s fully self-paced, so you can complete it on your own schedule.
Is the Google AI Professional Certificate free through Goodwill?
Yes. Through Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund, Goodwill provides the Google AI Professional Certificate at no cost.
Do I need AI experience to take this course?
No. The program starts with AI Fundamentals, which is designed for complete beginners. You don’t need any prior experience with AI. The first course builds a strong foundation, and each subsequent course builds on it progressively.
What’s the difference between the Google AI Professional Certificate and Google AI Essentials?
Google AI Essentials is a shorter, foundational course that teaches what AI is and how to use it for basic tasks. The Google AI Professional Certificate goes much further: it’s a seven-course program that teaches you to apply AI across six professional work domains with 20+ hands-on projects. Think of AI Essentials as the introduction and the Professional Certificate as the full professional training. Both are free through Goodwill.
What AI tools does this course teach?
You’ll learn to use Gemini (including Canvas, Deep Research and Live), NotebookLM, Gemini in Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, Sheets) and Google AI Studio.
Will I earn a certificate?
Yes. When you complete all seven courses, you earn a Google AI Professional Certificate — a career credential from Google that you can add to your LinkedIn profile, résumé, or CV.
Can I build real projects with this certificate?
Yes. The program includes over 20 hands-on activities where you create job-ready solutions: project plans, research reports, tailored communications, marketing content, data analyses and even a custom AI app. These aren’t exercises — they’re portfolio pieces you can use at work or show to employers.
