New Job Creation Program at Maeyang Middle School, Gwangju, Gyeonggi

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 [ 10 ] classes and [ 273 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"I didn't know much about different jobs before, but I learned a lot about the skills each job requires, what people in those jobs do, and what future jobs might look like! The instructor was kind, answered everything I didn't understand, and explained things clearly so they were easy to follow."

"Thinking about my career through various activities and discovering a path toward creating a new job was fascinating, and I liked that it gave me time to think about my future more seriously."

Program Content

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past to the present and into the future, learning 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 involves.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring how the world of work has changed from past to present to future
• Examining examples of jobs transformed by technological progress
• Learning why new jobs are created

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 skills
• Exploring personal or promising career paths through job creation
• Completing a presentation worksheet, including images

Outcomes

• Creating an introduction to the new job each student designed
• Designing a WHY? HOW? WHAT? career roadmap
• Strengthening career imagination and self-expression