Katherine Atwill bypassed potential consulting jobs and joined Teach for America.More people are applying to socially-oriented careers this year, such as Peace Corps and Teach for America. Here's a preview of the article:
"Young people ... are part of the growing ranks of college graduates who, amid a worsening job market, are contributing to a surge in applications and enlistments at public-service agencies like Teach for America and the Peace Corps. Indeed, only 59% of employers surveyed expect to hire 2008 graduates by the end of the summer, down from 76% the year before, according to a survey of about 1,000 employers by job-search company Monster Worldwide Inc.
But organizations cite another impulse behind this generation's embrace of nontraditional postgraduate employment: a simple desire to change the world."
Read the Wall Street Journal article here.
