Google Prompting Essentials
About this course
Google's Prompting Essentials certificate teaches practical prompt engineering for everyday work contexts — not for AI researchers, but for professionals who use AI tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot to draft, summarize, analyze, and brainstorm in their jobs. It covers prompt construction, zero-shot and few-shot prompting, iterative refinement, and common workplace use cases across writing, data, and analysis.
Launched in 2024 as part of Google's AI literacy push, Prompting Essentials is one of the first employer-signaled AI credentials available for free — sitting alongside Google's Professional Certificates but taking hours rather than months. It's designed for breadth across job functions, not depth in any one tool, making it useful for professionals in any field who want a credentialed starting point for AI fluency.
What you'll learn
This course includes
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- Duration
- 5 hrs
- Level
- Beginner
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- Google Badge
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- Duration
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- Level
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Instructor
Developed by Google as part of its Grow with Google AI Essentials program, combining Google's AI expertise with workplace-applicable skill design.
Requirements
- No prior AI or technical knowledge required
Who this course is for
- Professionals in any field who use AI tools and want a credentialed signal
- Managers and team leads who want to upskill their team in AI literacy
- Anyone starting an AI learning journey who wants the practical foundation first