Google’s IT Support Professional Certificate enrolls in community college

I got my start at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, MO where I received my associate degree and went on to career in IT support at Google. Today, I'm Senior Systems Administrator, helping to keep Google's infrastructure up and running. Since its launch in January, almost 40,000 people have enrolled in the program, and Google has funded over 10,000 scholarships to support veterans, refugees, and low-income learners.. Starting this fall, we're bringing the certificate to more Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, California, and New York. To do this, we're giving Google org grant to JFF, nonprofit.  JFF will help community colleges integrate Google IT Support Professional Certificate into their IT offerings, so that it aligns with the skills that employers are looking for. The field of IT's growing, with many companies looking to hire IT talent — there are 150,000 openings for IT Support jobs open in U.S alone. To help connect students with these job opportunities, we created consortium which includes Bank of America, Walmart, Sprint, GE Digital, PNC Bank, Infosys, TEKSystems, of course, and UPMC, Google. Today we're announcing that fourteen more companies joining this group Hulu, Cognizant, RICOH USA, MCPc, and 10 Walmart family companies including Allswell, Bonobos, Hayneedle, Jet com, Modcloth, Moosejaw, Sam's Club, Shoes com, Store No 8 and Vudu.. Community college put me on my path to IT support, and in today's increasingly economy, we hope Google IT Support Professional Certificate program helps others find theirs.  Read more