Google Skillshop Ads Certificate
Am I wasting my time doing skillshop certifications?
It absolutely shows initiative to a potential employer and may give you a slight boost over another applicant with similar experience that is not certified. In a competitive job market, anything helps. At the agency I work at currently, we are all required to keep up our Google Ads certifications.
If you are solo and not looking for an agency job, it’s up to you. If you have some experience already with Google Ads, the courses are slightly more helpful than if you are starting from 0. There’s no downside in doing them if you don’t gain much, aside from the time spent.
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Hey, I’ve been trying to complete the Google Ads certification on Google Skillshop, but I never score more than 70% on the exam—even though I’ve passed it every year before. I’ve also noticed that some answers in the learning modules are marked as incorrect even though they are actually right. Sometimes you’re only allowed to select one answer even though two options are clearly correct.
Is anyone else having issues with this? Support either doesn’t respond or keeps saying they’ll look into it, but then nothing happens.
Hi y'all,
Maybe a dumb question, maybe my time can be spent better elsewhere.
I've been doing all of the Skillshop courses to become 'Google Ads certified' and I just completed my certification in Google Ads Search.
Do these courses hold any advantage with employers, if you wanted to freelance/run your own agency (I understand they help in becoming a Google Partner/Premier in conjunction with a certain amount of ad spend) or are they sort of meaningless?
I understand the knowledge is useful, but perhaps I could be looking at better avenues of reading than what Skillshop courses offer?
Any advice is appreciated.
It absolutely shows initiative to a potential employer and may give you a slight boost over another applicant with similar experience that is not certified. In a competitive job market, anything helps. At the agency I work at currently, we are all required to keep up our Google Ads certifications.
If you are solo and not looking for an agency job, it’s up to you. If you have some experience already with Google Ads, the courses are slightly more helpful than if you are starting from 0. There’s no downside in doing them if you don’t gain much, aside from the time spent.
Depends what type of job you’re applying for. I’d you’re applying for an entry level job or an internship it shows initiative and could be beneficial but if you’re applying for a more experienced job it basically means nothing.
I sense lots of people right now are doing Googles free skillshop exams to get certificates.
If you are doing those exams to gain knowledge or learn anything.. dont waste your time because all you will learn is how Karen can use Smart Campaigns to drive brand awareness to her new antique shop or some irrelevant bullshit.
Only thing they are good for is the certificate and even those are waaaay overrated.