Seoksu Middle School New Job Creation Program

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that helps them understand how jobs and future technologies are evolving, then design their own new job using generative AI and job-creation cards

Program Outcomes

• [ 6 ] classes and [ 157 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.6 points

"It was really helpful to take future technologies that once felt vague and make them concrete by creating my own job card from my own ideas. I enjoyed learning how technology, art and data connect. Thank you for all your hard work!"

"At first I had never really thought about the future, but this career exploration class got me thinking about mine."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed across the past, present and future, and come to understand that jobs do not simply disappear — they evolve and expand.

They then apply the three principles of job creation — discovery, specialization and convergence — to generate new job ideas, and use generative AI to define why each new job is needed and what it does.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work across the past, present and future
• Examining examples of jobs transformed by technological advances
• Learning why new jobs come into being

Hands-on Practice with the Three Principles of Job Creation

• Generating new job ideas through discovery, specialization and convergence
• Understanding how existing jobs connect with future technologies
• Developing job creation ideas based on problems in the local community and everyday life

Defining New Jobs with Generative AI

• Using AI to come up with a new job title, role and required skills
• Exploring personal or promising career paths through job creation
• Completing a presentation worksheet, including images

Deliverables

• A profile of the new job each student created
• A WHY? HOW? WHAT? career roadmap
• Stronger career imagination and self-expression