> The reality is not quite so cutting-edge: In addition to the Google product-based courses, there are classes like “Design an Effective Resume” and “Optimize Y

> The reality is not quite so cutting-edge: In addition to the Google product-based courses, there are classes like “Design an Effective Resume” and “Optimize Your Energy for High Performance” and “Coach Your Team to Success.” These are important and valuable skills, to be sure — but they are not “digital skills.” The marketing of this project is an ingenious and insidious bait and switch: offer glitzy and in-demand tech skills, but limit the actual courses to the walled garden of Google products Yes, being able to put a resume together and coaching a team is something which is of absolutely no value whatsoever outside Google's walled garden. Google has also probably done more than any other organization in human history to make information on careers (and any other subject) easily and readily available to people - without needing to use Docs, Sheets etc to do it.