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The programme

Three days.Real world.A clearer you.

An immersive, hands-on experience to help you explore, experiment and build your next move with confidence.

  • Next cohort: 20–22 Dec 2026
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • 36 learners, in four pods of nine
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Start to finish

Before, during and after the three days.

We look at work as tasks, not job titles: what people actually do all day, and which of those tasks your child enjoys, struggles with or wants to try again.

  1. Before

    A short discovery conversation

    About 10 to 15 minutes, by voice or typing, after booking. Your child keeps only what they agree with.

    A first draft of their map

  2. Day 1

    Discover

    How work is changing, tasks rather than job titles, and their own strengths with real examples.

    Interests with examples, and a first map of opportunities

  3. Day 2

    Experiment

    Practitioner conversations and a practical task whose constraints change halfway through.

    Their own work, linked to their map

  4. Day 3

    Decide

    Routes after SPM (university, diploma, TVET, work, enterprise), costs against returns, and a family conversation.

    Two options with reasons, and three dated actions

  5. After

    90 days of follow-through

    They do the actions, add what they find, and check in at 30 and 90 days.

    A map that keeps changing, with the reasons

A task from Day 2

The missed appointment problem

A community service centre, made up for the exercise, has missed appointments, messages in several languages, little staff time and visitors with different access to phones. In a small team, learners recommend and prototype one change within a budget. Halfway through, the service owner adds a constraint: fewer visitors have smartphones than they assumed. Each learner then explains one decision in their own words.

See the map a learner leaves with

Day by day

What happens on each day.

Day 1: three school leavers sort paper task cards into columns while a facilitator listens.
01Day 1 · Discover

Day 1 · Discover

Me and the map

Discover what you value, see the eight career areas and research the routes after SPM.

  1. 09:00

    Parent and student opening

    A 45-minute welcome: what happens over the three days and how to ask for help.

  2. 10:30

    Who am I at work?

    Values, interests and strengths, with examples from things you have actually done.

  3. 12:00

    The eight career areas

    A common map of the eight areas, and the difference between a job, a course and a route in.

  4. 14:00

    Route research

    Compare routes on requirements, costs and alternatives, using sources you check yourself.

  5. 15:45

    A small practical challenge

    Make something small and notice how you like to work.

Day 2: halfway through a task, the service owner holds up a new constraint and a pod rethinks its paper phone prototypes.
02Day 2 · Experiment

Day 2 · Experiment

Try the work

Try two practical tasters and talk to eight people who do the work.

  1. 09:00

    Job tasters, rounds 1 and 2

    Two 90-minute tasters, one in each round. A real task, adapted for beginners, led by a practitioner.

  2. 13:00

    Eight conversations

    Eight 12-minute conversations in small groups, one with a practitioner from each career area, using questions you prepared.

  3. 15:20

    AI task X-ray

    Break one job into tasks and tag each: left alone, augmented, automated or created by AI.

Day 3: a learner explains her Future Map on a board to the parents seated in front of her.
03Day 3 · Decide

Day 3 · Decide

Make the move

Run a first-salary month, weigh the cost of each route and write your plan.

  1. 09:00

    First-salary simulation

    Run a month on a sourced starting salary: pay and deductions, rent, transport, a buy-now-pay-later offer and an emergency.

  2. 10:30

    Routes and costs

    Compare two routes with dated sources, and write three dated next actions.

  3. 13:30

    Plan clinic

    A one-to-one review of your plan with a facilitator, while your group works on theirs.

  4. 16:00

    Share-out with parents

    Each student presents their Future Map to their own family.

What you leave with

Your Future Map

Every session fills one part of a map that stays yours: print it, share the parts you choose with your family, and keep adding to it.

My Future Map

  1. Me

    01

    What do I value, enjoy and do well?

    Filled in during Values, interests and strengths, with real examples

  2. My options

    02

    Which pathways fit, and how do they compare on pay, stability and growth?

    Filled in during Eight career areas and route research

  3. The work

    03

    What did I try, and what did I think of it?

    Filled in during Two job tasters

  4. The people

    04

    Who have I spoken to who does this work?

    Filled in during Eight practitioner conversations

  5. The future

    05

    Which tasks will AI leave alone, augment, automate or create?

    Filled in during Job X-ray

  6. The money

    06

    What does the first year cost and pay, and how might it grow?

    Filled in during First-salary simulation

  7. My next 90 days

    07

    What are my next steps?

    Filled in during Plan clinic

Day 1 · Comparing routes

Six routes, compared honestly.

Every route has trade-offs. On Day 1 you research each one from sources you check yourself, then compare them side by side before you choose what to test next. This table shows the questions you will answer, not the answers.

Two formats

The Intensive now. Immersion next.

The three-day Intensive is the programme you can join now. Immersion, two weeks with job-shadow placements and a final showcase, is planned for 2027 and is not on sale yet. Email us to register your interest.

First Move Intensive

Format
3 consecutive days, in-person bootcamp
Employer involvement
Practitioners join for “a day in my job” conversations and run job tasters
Job shadowing
Not included
Parents
Opening briefing and closing share-out
Cohort size
36 learners

First Move Immersion (2027, register interest)

Format
Planned for 2027: two weeks with facilitated sessions, two job-shadow placements and a final showcase
Employer involvement
Job shadowing in pairs plus an employer-set project
Job shadowing
Built in, with learning goals and a host kit
Parents
Opening briefing, mid-point update and final showcase with hosts
Cohort size
Set by host availability; not on sale yet

Ready for your first move?

Test-drive your future in three days.

20–22 Dec 2026 · Kuala Lumpur · Ages 17 to 19, SPM or equivalent school leavers

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