diff --git a/bigquery/samples/create_job.py b/bigquery/samples/create_job.py
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+# Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+def create_job(client):
+    # [START bigquery_create_job]
+    from google.cloud import bigquery
+
+    # TODO(developer): Construct a BigQuery client object.
+    # client = bigquery.Client()
+
+    query_job = client.query(
+        "SELECT country_name from `bigquery-public-data.utility_us.country_code_iso`",
+        # Explicitly force job execution to be routed to a specific processing
+        # location.
+        location="US",
+        # Specify a job configuration to set optional job resource properties.
+        job_config=bigquery.QueryJobConfig(
+            labels={"example-label": "example-value"}, maximum_bytes_billed=1000000
+        ),
+        # The client libraries automatically generate a job ID. Override the
+        # generated ID with either the job_id_prefix or job_id parameters.
+        job_id_prefix="code_sample_",
+    )  # API request
+
+    print("Started job: {}".format(query_job.job_id))
+    # [END bigquery_create_job]
+    return query_job
diff --git a/bigquery/samples/tests/test_create_job.py b/bigquery/samples/tests/test_create_job.py
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+# Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from .. import create_job
+
+
+def test_create_job(capsys, client):
+
+    query_job = create_job.create_job(client)
+    client.cancel_job(query_job.job_id, location="US")
+    out, err = capsys.readouterr()
+    assert "Started job: {}".format(query_job.job_id) in out