On-Campus Career Camp

Job Creation Program

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

Program Outcomes

• [ 7 ] classes and [ 179 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.7 points

"Learning about my strengths and talent type, and about new jobs, really helped me think about my career path, and I think I'll use it to decide on my future. The instructor made the classes fun and easy to understand, so I truly enjoyed the two days of classes and felt really happy."

"I came to understand what I want to do and became interested in new jobs. It was memorable because it gave me the chance to look into fields I had never been interested in before, and I want to keep trying different activities to find my dream."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past to the present and into the future, and learn that jobs do not simply disappear but evolve and expand. They then apply the three principles of job creation — discovery, specialization and convergence — to come up with new job ideas, and use generative AI to define the need for and role of each new job.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work past, present and future
• Examining cases of jobs changing with technological progress
• 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 create a job title, role and required competencies for each new job
• Exploring personal or promising career paths through job creation
• Completing a presentation worksheet, including images

Deliverables

• An introduction sheet for the new job each student created
• A WHY? HOW? WHAT? career roadmap
• Stronger career imagination and self-expression skills