Updated February 19, 2025 17:12 ET
After spending 20 years as a home mother, military spouse Claire Thorn knew she would prepare for a new career. She completed a Google career certificate in digital marketing and e-commerce. The course provided a strong foundation, but she was still faced with difficulty navigating the job search process.
Then Claire became an early tester of a new, experimental tool from Google called Career Dreamer. She replied a few simple requests for her background and interests, and Career Dreamer showed her how her life experiences could translate into skills and new career opportunities.
Claire says ”(Career Dreamer) helped identify skills that I take for granted and showed me that they are important and useful in the workforce. Now I am armed with the confidence to know that I already possess exactly what employers need. “
Today we make this experiment available at grow.google/careerdreamer to make career exploration a little easier for everyone.
Navigation in a skill -based workforce
The World Economic Forum reports that workers typically have an average of 12 different jobs throughout their lifetime, with Gen Z expected to have 18 jobs across 6 different careers.
And the less traditional your career path is, the harder it can be to hit your past experiences to a coherent narrative or to understand what careers are in line with your particular skills and strengths. However, understanding the skills you already have and learning to formulate them effectively is incredibly valuable. It helps job candidates show their relevant experience to employers and can help open doors to fulfill new roles. This is where Career Dreamer can help.
Connecting the dots with career dreams
Career Dreamer uses AI to find patterns and connect the dots between your unique experiences, educational background, skills and interests. Think of it as a helping hand to bridge where you have been, and imagine where you could go next time.
It helps you quickly identify your unique skills and talents and how to talk about them and connect you with careers (based on job market data from Lightcast and Bureau of Labor Statistics) that can be a good fit. It can even help you discover training resources like Google Career Certificates and Google Cloud Skills Boost.
With career dreams you can:
- Form your professional story. Make a career identity declaration that shows the value you bring to the workforce that you can add to your resume or professional profile and use as speech points during an interview.