A few years ago, Google started offering a non-college certificate program to help teach basic IT skills to future workers. Now, the tech giant is working to make sure more people — including community college students — have access to the curriculum. From a report: The labor market has a big skills mismatch, with companies saying they can’t find enough qualified applicants, while plenty of job seekers struggle to find meaningful and lucrative work. As part of the expansion, Google will make the certificate program free for community colleges and vocational high schools across the nation. Connecticut will be the first state to offer Google Career Certificates across its state colleges and universities system. Google is also working with the American Council on Education to allow those who have achieved a certificate to also get college credit for the work.

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