On-Site Career Camp at Schools

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students to understand how jobs change and what future technologies bring, then design their own new job using generative AI and job-creation cards

Program Outcomes

• A total of [ 10 ] classes and [ 275 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 / 5

"Through this, I learned what technologies and threats the future may hold, and it helped me think about my career by imagining what future jobs might emerge to solve and use them."

"I had never thought about future technologies before, so it was great to connect them to jobs and to my own future. It was the best of all my career classes, and I wouldn't mind doing it again."

Program Content

Students explore 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 generate 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 across 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 come up with new job titles, roles and required competencies
• Exploring personal or promising career paths through job creation
• Completing presentation worksheets, including images

Outcomes

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