How is this different from any other certification? In IT, many people starts their career with certifications and without a degree. Get a MCSE/RHCSA/CCNA/AWS

How is this different from any other certification? In IT, many people starts their career with certifications and without a degree. Get a MCSE/RHCSA/CCNA/AWS cert and you can get entry level jobs without a degree. This is not new. But certifications haven't killed college degrees. There are plenty of job offers who specifically request having a degree to avoid people with just certs (and automated systems that filter out their resumes). And while there are very talented people with no degrees, at the end of the day recruiters will usually choose a candidate with a degree before one without it. How are Google certs going to change this? IMO this is just a sales pitch for Google certs. As for the "partners" who promise to hire a specific number of people with these certs, they just want to hire cheaper IT workers and nothing else.