New Job Creation Program at Sinheung Middle School, Pohang

Job Creation Program

A career education program for middle school students that builds an understanding of how jobs and emerging technologies are changing, then has students design their own new job using generative AI and job-creation cards

Program Outcomes

• [ 7 ] classes and [ 166 ] students took part in total.
• ★★★★★ 4.5 points

"Creating a job of the future was fun, and I got to come up with an AI-related job. It made me think that jobs like this might really appear in the future. I hope that even if it isn't exactly the same, something similar to the job I created will come along and help people who need it."

"I've taken a lot of classes like this, but this one was the most fun. It felt fresh, like I took a step closer to my future, and it made me realize I need to think about and look into the future a lot more. I also want to learn more about the promising future technologies we covered today, and I felt excited and hopeful that there will be many more new jobs. I think today's class eased some of my worries about careers."

Program Activities

Students look at how jobs have changed from the past through the present and into the future, learning that jobs don't 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 why each new job is needed and what it does.

Understanding How Jobs Change

• Exploring changes in the world of work past, present and future
• Examining 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 emerging 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 the job title, role and required skills for 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