Mapo-gu Hosts Online Career Fair 'Jinro Trip On Air'

Operation of Online Career Fair for 2,600 First-Year Middle School Students in Mapo Innovation Education District... Supporting Vivid Career Exploration with 81 Real-Time and Free Experience Job Videos

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[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Mapo-gu (Mayor Yoo Dong-gyun) will hold the Mapo Innovation Education District Online Career Fair "Career Trip On Air" (the 9th Mapo Career Fair) for three days from the 5th to the 7th, providing youth with opportunities for self-directed career exploration and job experience.

Now in its 9th year, the Mapo Career Fair is an event that helps young people explore careers and jobs and is part of the Mapo Innovation Education District project.

Reflecting the social distancing situation due to COVID-19, the event will be held online, but to provide students with more vivid career experience opportunities, it will focus on real-time online experiential activities using experience kits.

This year’s career fair, attended by about 2,600 first-year middle school students in Mapo-gu, is operated under the concept of embarking on a career trip based on four themes?Medical, Unique Jobs, Future, and Media Art?reflecting the job groups preferred by local youth according to the results of the Mapo-gu career education survey conducted last year.

Youth will engage with a total of 81 contents, including 51 real-time experience videos and 30 free experience videos, discovering a wider variety of professions such as travel agent, braille transcriber, vegan chef, molecular biologist, and more, helping to resolve their questions about careers.

Additionally, through a special live career concern talk, youth will have the opportunity to share their career worries with career coaching experts.

The Mapo Career and Job Experience Support Center (Director Jin-hee Lee), which organizes this event, was established in 2013 by Mapo-gu and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to support sustainable career education for youth centered on local resources. It currently operates programs such as youth career education and career experience at the Mapo Central Library.

Yoo Dong-gyun, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, “I believe it is important to ensure that youth career experiences are not interrupted even as COVID-19 continues,” adding, “We will spare no effort to actively support various aspects so that online career experiences can establish themselves as a new way of career exploration and operate stably.”

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