What You Don’t Know About Google Project Management Certificate

Kritika Sharma
6 min readJul 23, 2023

My experience from getting this certification in 7 months.

If you’re aspiring to pursue a career in project management, the Google Project Management(GPM) Professional Certificate might be on your radar. However, the big question is, is it really worth it? In this article, we will answer this question by diving into the following aspects of the course — What does the program entail? The Pricing Policy? The ROI? What impact did obtaining this certificate have on my professional career, and could it potentially have a similar effect on yours?

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1. GPM — What this Certificate Offers?

Offered by Google through the Coursera platform, this certificate program promises to provide a solid foundation in project management principles and methodologies. The instructors are all Google employees, who bring their expertise to impart knowledge and skills by mostly sharing their experiences with learners at both entry and intermediate levels of project management. What Google aims to portray is that this certificate can serve as a degree equivalent in the field of project management. Therefore, if you do not have any prior experience in any field, moreover, even if you didn’t go to university or college meaning you’re just a high school graduate, you can just get this…

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Kritika Sharma

Tech PM/Web Dev by profession, Learner by Passion. I write to promote financial literacy, share technical insights, and career advancement tips that I learn!:)