Note: This offer expires at the end of today, Friday, June 30. If you’re interested, take action soon.

Since 2021, Google has released a steady stream of online courses designed to help students earn a professional certificate in six months and land an entry-level job. Early on, Google developed certificate programs in five professional areas: User Experience (UX) Design, Data Analytics, Project Management, IT Support and IT Automation. In 2023, the tech company has added several new programs to its lineup, each offered through Coursera’s online education platform. The latest additions include Cybersecurity, Business Intelligence, and Advanced Data Analytics. On average, these certificate programs take 2-6 months to complete.

If you would like to receive a Google professional certificate, you will need to sign up for Coursera Plus, which usually runs $59 per month. (That means that a certificate generally costs about $120-$360 to complete overall.) However, right now, Coursera has a special promotion–which ends soon on June 30–where you can sign up for the first month of Coursera Plus for just $1. That gives you a very affordable way to try out Google’s certificate programs and other programs offered on Coursera. Since the offer expires soon, don’t delay. Access the deal for $1 here.

Nota Bene: Open Culture has a partnership with Coursera. If readers enroll in certain Coursera courses and programs, it helps support Open Culture.

FYI: Masterclass is getting an early jump on the holiday sales, running a Buy One, Share One Free deal.

Here’s the gist: If you buy an All-Access pass to their 180+ courses, you will receive another All-Access Pass to give to someone else at no additional charge. An All-Access pass costs $180 (or $15 per month), and lasts one year. For that fee, you–and a family member or friend–can watch courses created by Annie Leibovitz, Neil Gaiman, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, Michael Pollan, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren, Alice Waters, Bill Nye and so many more. The deal is available now. Find it here.

Note: If you sign up for a MasterClass course by clicking on the links in this post, Open Culture will receive a small fee that helps support our operation.

FYI: MasterClass is offering up to 35% off an annual subscription for Mother’s Day. Through Sunday, May 8th you can become a member and gain access to 150 courses, featuring some of our leading creative minds–from Annie Leibovitz, David Sedaris and Neil Gaiman, to Margaret Atwood, David Lynch and Helen Mirren. You can sign up by clicking here.

Note: If you get a MasterClass subscription, Open Culture will receive a small fee that helps support our operation.

FYI: The Great Courses (formerly The Teaching Company) is running its Spring Warehouse Clearance Sale, offering a steep discount on a good number of its courses. If you’re not familiar with it, the Great Courses provides a very nice service. They travel across the U.S., recording great professors lecturing on great topics that will appeal to any lifelong learner. They then make the courses available to customers in different formats (DVD, Video & Audio Downloads, etc.). The courses are very polished and complete, and they can be quite reasonably priced, especially when they’re on sale, as they are today. Click here to explore the offer. The Spring Warehouse Clearance Sale ends on March 10.

Note: The Great Courses is a partner with Open Culture. So if you purchase a course, it benefits not just you and Great Courses. It benefits Open Culture too. So consider it win-win-win.