Exploring your future with the Google Career Dreamer

Introduction

AI resume tools are becoming more popular and ever more useful. For me, one of my favorite tools to use is the Google Career Dreamer. The Career Dreamer allows you to enter current or previous roles you filled, along with other factors like your educational background, and it generates soft skills you may have gained and overlooked in your own work. Additionally, it will generate a career identity statement for you, which is a summary of your work and skills that you can put on your resumé. Finally, you can also explore potential career paths that you could take. This is one of my favorite features of the Career Dreamer. 

Over the summer of 2025, I worked towards earning the Google Cybersecurity Certificate, which is where I was first introduced to the Career Dreamer. At first, I thought it was a little boring, because I didn’t really have a lot of interest in making a Career Identity statement, but I quickly realized the value of having the option to do that if necessary. I also realized how valuable it would be to be able to look at what skills you might have and what careers you could explore. This will likely be a quick tutorial, as this is a fairly straightforward application, so there is no need for installations of any sort, just using the site. Though I hope that this at least shows people how to use this application to the fullest. 

I find the Career Dreamer to be a very useful tool, not really for the statement, but for the skills that it suggests, because I often find myself stuck, unable to come up with skills I have, and the Career Dreamer helps me find skills I have that I may have forgotten or did not realize I had. It suggests a lot of technical skills that I don’t often think about right away, so the feature is very useful to me. So, let's jump in!

Adding Your Work Experience

To start off, you can enter previous and current work experience, and enter any additional information, like organization name or education level, and major if you are a student. Then, based on your response, the Career Dreamer will generate a list of skills that may apply to you. 

Figure: Starting page of the Career Dreamer, enter a current or previous role to get started using it!

Select your skills

Figure: Skill selections page; choose up to three skills that fit you. Pictured: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Network Security, and Programming Proficiency. 

he following page asks you to select three skills and contains options for regenerating the listed skills, but also to select all of them. Upon selecting the skills that describe you best, the Career Dreamer generates a career identity statement for you, which you are then given leeway to add additional experiences, education, skills, and interests. 

I personally would select Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Network Security, and Programming Proficiency, because those are skills that I believe I have gained through various classes and certificates I have taken. I think this feature is really helpful for reminding yourself what skills you may have that might be very useful, because those three skills that I selected above would not normally be things that I would think of mentioning, just because I didn’t think I had them. 

Next up is the actual generation of the Career Identity Statement. This is basically a summary of your skills and what you can do in a professional environment. 

Your Career Identity Statement

This next feature is important as well. The Career Identity Statement is a summary of you, what you can do, what skills you have that would help contribute to your own career, as well as being an opportunity for you to share your interests, why you want to get into whatever field you want to get into, and your motivations for that. Which is why overall, it is an extremely important and extremely useful tool for you to use. 

On this page, you can add any skills or interests you have that you can think of, as well as re-generate the identity statement as many times as you want to. 

The next most important feature available to you through the Career Dreamer is, in my opinion, the option to explore paths. This is an option you can toggle to, which generates and presents career options you can look at and find any jobs you think you would be a good fit for.

Exploring Career Paths

Figure: an image displaying possible career paths for the user based on their responses to previous pages. 

Now we have the option to explore career paths that you could go down based on your current experience. I think this is very useful because the Career Dreamer can pull all of these options up for you and display them like this. It can show you how many options there are for you, which I think is very useful, and maybe even reassuring if you are feeling at all anxious about how you will end up as an adult. 

This is definitely one of my favorite features on the Google Career Dreamer. I think it is really interesting just being able to see all these potential careers laid out before me. I am someone who often feels like I have no idea what I want to do in the future or how I will end up. But looking at this page kind of helps reassure me, as I can see all of these possible things that I could do, and it reminds me that I don’t have to be so anxious, because there are so many

Conclusion

The Google Career Dreamer is a very useful tool for your professional development. It has the ability to show you what possible skills you have, and show you all the things you could do with them. On top of that, it can help you create a Career identity statement, which is an integral part of your own development in the professional space, as it can help you figure out what your own strengths and abilities are. To conclude, I think this is a very useful tool for resumé development and for your own personal use. 

Each tool included in the Career Dreamer is very useful in its own right, and I thoroughly recommend using it if you feel like you need a career identity statement, or to remember what skills you have, or just want to explore potential career options for yourself!

               - Jeremy Ashley

Career Dreamer | Grow with Google