New Job Creation Program at Incheon Seochang Middle School

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students in which they learn how jobs and emerging technologies are changing, then use generative AI and job-creation cards to design a new job of their own.

Program Outcomes

• A total of [ 8 ] classes and [ 242 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"I learned about jobs I had never heard of and jobs that interest me. Realizing that these jobs will keep developing and merging in our future society, and that many new jobs will appear, made me see that we, too, need to spot problems, fix them, and expand even our small ideas for the sake of our future."

"I learned a lot about what kinds of jobs will appear in the future and got to know more about artificial intelligence and AI. Making things together with my group along the way was fun, and I liked that I seemed to get closer to my group members."

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 ideas for new jobs, and use generative AI to define why each new job is needed and what it involves.

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

• Coming up with new jobs through discovery, specialization and convergence
• Understanding how existing jobs connect with emerging technologies
• Developing job 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's title, role and required skills
• Exploring personal or promising career paths through job creation
• Preparing a presentation worksheet, including images

Deliverables

• Creating an introduction to the new job each student designed
• Designing a WHY? HOW? WHAT? career roadmap
• Building career imagination and self-expression skills