Namyangju Migeum Middle School: New Job Creation & Schumpeter Entrepreneurship

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that builds an understanding of how jobs change and the technologies shaping the future, then has students design a new job of their own using generative AI and job creation cards

Program Outcomes

• [ 4 ] classes and [ 99 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.6 rating

"Through this activity, I realized that many technologies are advancing, and that this is creating many new jobs and increasing the skills people need. I will work hard to build those skills. The games we played throughout the class kept it from getting boring, and those activities became one of my most enjoyable and fun experiences."

"This class taught me about the jobs of the future, not just jobs as they exist today. I feel I can now use my abilities to pursue a job that will grow significantly in the future I am going to live in, and work hard toward it. The whole class was a really worthwhile experience."

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 generate new job ideas, and use generative AI to define the need for and role of each new job in concrete terms.

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

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 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