New Job Creation Program at Namyangju Gwangdong Middle School

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

• [ 8 ] classes and [ 172 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.4 points

"I became more interested in my own career path. The teacher explained each activity clearly, so nothing felt difficult along the way. I'd love to do an activity like this again."

"Thanks to this program, I learned a lot about technologies I didn't really know before, and it made me even more interested in science. If I get the chance, I'd like to explore other jobs and technologies too."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed across the past, present and future, and come to understand that jobs don't simply disappear — they 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 it involves.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work across the past, present and future
• Examining examples of jobs transformed by 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

Shaping New Jobs with Generative AI

• Using AI to define a new job's 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 skills