While there are a ton of websites on the internet where you can take free courses, only a handful of them also offer free certificates for you to take home as proof that you actually took the course. One of them is Google. 

As more and more of our advertising and marketing is moving to online platforms, one skill that every business owner, or anyone in the marketing or advertising industry has to harness is Google Ads. 

As we all know Google is the Queen of the internet. So having a certificate that proves that you have gone through some Google courses and have the skills and knowledge about using Google products will definitely secure you a job the next time you have an interview. 

Here’s how you can access the Google Courses and Google Certificates for free: 

1. Go to your browser and type in “ skillshop.exceedlms.com “. 

2. Then, log in using your Gmail account and Agree to the Terms and Conditions. 

3. You will then be asked to fill up your personal details in a form. 

4. After filling you details, if you scroll down, you will see the option to connect to your google ads account, if you have one then you can connect it, if you don’t want to that will be fine too. 

You should connect your skill shop account to your Google account, so that you can get some important emails from the platform. 

5. Scroll down a bit more and you will get to click on the Google products that you’s like to learn about and you’ll have to select your language and timezone. Once you’re done, click on continue.

6. You will then be taken to the skill shop page where you can start learning! 

7. Once you’ve finished a specific course, you will have to click on the throphy symbol to take the assesment. Once you’ve passed you’ll get a certificate which you can print out and bring to your next job interview to impress your interviewer. 

There a tonnes of useful courses that you can take on the skill shop platform that are definitely useful for those in the marketing or social media departments. You get to expand your knowledge on how to use Google’s products which will definitely get your hired the next time you’re looking for a job. 

Take a look at this TikTok video, the guy in the video has so many certificates from Google! He will for sure get hired!