diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
index f9b99b7fb..954a46963 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/job/query.py
@@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ def result(  # type: ignore  # (incompatible with supertype)
                 a DDL query, an ``_EmptyRowIterator`` instance is returned.
 
         Raises:
-            google.cloud.exceptions.GoogleAPICallError:
+            google.api_core.exceptions.GoogleAPICallError:
                 If the job failed and retries aren't successful.
             concurrent.futures.TimeoutError:
                 If the job did not complete in the given timeout.