New Job Creation Program at Soha Middle School, Gwangmyeong

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that explores how jobs are changing and the technologies shaping the future, then has students design their own new jobs using generative AI and job creation cards

Program Outcomes

• A total of [ 11 ] classes and [ 284 ] students took part.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"This class gave me a new option: instead of just fitting myself into existing jobs, I can think about a job that suits me. From now on, I'll plan my career by thinking about jobs that fit me and jobs the future will need."

"This program gave me a chance to think seriously about my future. Until now, I feel like I just went to school without any clear goal, but from now on I want to pay more attention in class and take on a wider range of activities to achieve my dreams."

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 come up with 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 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 develop a job title, role and required competencies for each new job
• Exploring one's own career path or promising careers through job creation
• Completing a presentation worksheet, including images

Deliverables

• Creating a profile of the new job each student invented
• Designing a WHY? HOW? WHAT? career roadmap
• Building career imagination and self-expression skills