Free Career Planning Course: Goals, Networking and Job Search

About this course

Turn a broad career ambition into practical next steps with this free Google course. Explore career changes, SMART goals, professional relationships and personal branding, then connect them to resumes, job research and interview preparation. The selected lessons form a career-development path; the unrelated digital marketing overview from the source playlist is left out.

What you can learn

• Career goals
• Career transitions
• Networking
• Personal branding
• Job research
• Application tracking
• Interview preparation

Course at a glance

Inside the course

Early lessons address career direction, progress tracking and leadership at work. The middle section develops networking and application skills, including resume writing and interview research. Later lessons return to confidence, actionable career plans and personal branding, helping you connect day-to-day applications with a longer-term direction.

Try this learning exercise

Write a 30-day career plan with one realistic goal, two skills to develop and three people or communities you could learn from. Add weekly research and application tasks, a simple tracking sheet and a review date. Define progress using actions you control rather than assuming a job offer.

How to follow the course

Choose a lesson from the list or search for a specific topic. Use Previous and Next to continue, and mark lessons complete as you go. Progress is saved in this browser without a WikiFree account.

Each course retains its relevant lessons, including videos also used in another course. Numbered series follow their original lesson or part order. Only reviewed advertisements, unrelated items and identical repeated playlist entries are excluded. Source recordings may have been made at different times.

Unavailable recordings are listed in Course content. Known lesson titles are retained; when the source hides a title or position, this is stated explicitly. Unavailable videos are not included in the video duration.

Free access, requirements and certificates

The selected public YouTube videos are free to watch. No paid subscription, payment card or examination is required for this video learning path. WikiFree organizes the public lessons for self-paced viewing; this listing does not include a Google certificate, graded assignment or instructor feedback.

No prior qualification or paid job-search tool is required. A notebook or spreadsheet is sufficient for the suggested exercise. The course offers general career-development guidance and does not provide recruitment services or guarantee an employment outcome.

Official Grow with Google playlist source ↗

Provider: Google. Videos play from the Grow with Google channel on YouTube.