On-Campus Career Camp

Job Creation Program

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

Program Results

• A total of [ 6 ] classes and [ 134 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"I liked learning about my career path, my talent type and my strength type. Starting in my second year of middle school, I'll follow the growth roadmap I wrote (practice, building a portfolio, improving my digital tool skills and more) and work as hard as I can toward the career I want."

"I've always thought a lot about my future career, and today's class helped me narrow down the many paths I'd been considering. I was interested in two jobs and found it hard to choose, but I learned that I could combine them. It was also meaningful to find out how my friends see my strengths and good qualities."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past to the present and into the future, learning 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 why each new job is needed and what role it plays.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work past, present and future
• Case studies of how technological progress reshapes jobs
• 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 skills
• Exploring my own career path or promising careers through job creation
• Completing a presentation worksheet, including images

Outcomes

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