New Job Creation Program at Songdo Middle School, Pohang

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that helps them understand how jobs and future technologies are changing, then design their own new job using generative AI and job-creation cards

Program Outcomes

• A total of [ 2 ] classes and [ 40 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.7 points

"I learned about new future jobs that draw on the fields I was already interested in. The teacher was kind and explained everything clearly, and I'm grateful for all the help. It was a great chance to think more deeply about my career path."

"I learned about future jobs and technologies in concrete terms, and I now know how I should prepare for the future. If I get another opportunity like this, I'd love to take it again."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past to the present and into the future, and come to see that jobs don't simply disappear; they 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 why each new job is needed and what it does.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work across the past, present and future
• Examining real cases of jobs changing as technology advances
• 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 ideas based on problems in the local community and everyday life

Defining New Jobs with Generative AI

• Using AI to develop the job title, role and required competencies of a new job
• 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