Incheon Gonghang Middle School: New Job Creation

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that explores how jobs change and how future technologies shape them, then has students design their own new job using generative AI and job creation cards

Program Outcomes

• [ 1 ] class and [ 20 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"I found out which technologies and jobs I like, and I learned about new jobs and technologies. I learned new things and new words, and I found out what my strengths are and what I like."

"I didn't have a career path before, but after this really useful class I came to understand my strengths and interests. It was a very interesting class that made me think about my future and my career, and I think it would be very helpful for students in the next grade to take this great class too."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past to the present and into the future, and come to understand that jobs do not simply disappear but 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 cases of jobs changing as technology 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 develop the new job's title, role and required competencies
• Exploring one's own career path or promising careers 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 skills