{"id":123728,"date":"2021-06-12T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/google-wants-to-train-you-to-become-a-ux-designer-in-6-months-without-a-college-degree-heres-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-certificate-program-and-potentially-make-84000-a-year"},"modified":"2021-06-12T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T08:23:00","slug":"google-wants-to-train-you-to-become-a-ux-designer-in-6-months-without-a-college-degree-heres-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-certificate-program-and-potentially-make-84000-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/google-wants-to-train-you-to-become-a-ux-designer-in-6-months-without-a-college-degree-heres-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-certificate-program-and-potentially-make-84000-a-year","title":{"rendered":"Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months \u2014 without a college degree. Heres how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84,000 a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-wants-to-train-you-to-become-a-ux-designer-in-6-months-without-a-college-degree-heres-how-to-make-the-most-of-the-certificate-program-and-potentially-make-84000-a-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months \u2014 without a college degree. Here\u2019s how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The US unemployment rate sits at 6.7%. Thanks to COVID-19, millions of Americans are still out there looking for not just a new job but also an entire new career path.<\/p>\n<p>Tech fields like UX design, data analysis, and project management are looking for promising candidates, and Google announced a new career-certificate program to help make them more accessible last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming program, called Google Career Certificates, will be taught online by Google staff, take six months to complete, and be treated as the equivalent of a relevant college degree by the search giant, according to Kent Walker, Google\u2019s senior vice president of global affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Experts share their best tips on using bootcamps like Google\u2019s to launch a career in emerging tech fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google wants to train you to become a UX designer in 6 months \u2014 without a college degree. Here\u2019s how to make the most of the certificate program and potentially make $84000 a year. The US unemployment rate sits at 6.7%. Thanks to COVID-19, millions of Americans are still out there looking for not just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}