2008.07.02: July 2, 2008: Headlines: Recruitment: Wall Street Journal: Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
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2008.07.02: July 2, 2008: Headlines: Recruitment: Wall Street Journal: Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
The Peace Corps is expecting a 16% increase in applications for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1.
Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
By ANNE MARIE CHAKER
Mike Stewart is putting off law school in favor of teaching in Washington, D.C., for the next two years. Katherine Atwill, an Ivy League graduate, stopped interviewing at consulting firms in favor of teaching in the Bronx. Rebecca Graziano, at age 23, quickly gave up looking for work. "There's nothing out there right now," says the Emory University graduate. She's heading to sub-Saharan Africa to work in youth development.
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The Peace Corps is expecting a 16% increase in applications for the fiscal year ending Oct. 1. Established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps sends volunteers to developing countries to work on education, agriculture and other projects. Enthusiasm for the program reached a peak of more than 15,000 volunteers in 1967 before spiraling downward, bottoming out at 5,219 in 1987. But participation has been climbing again in recent years: Fiscal 2007 saw more than 8,000 volunteers -- a level not seen since the 1970s.
Ms. Graziano, who will likely be teaching English to students in Africa, says she eventually wants to go to graduate school, though hasn't yet decided her field of study. In the interim, "I want to do something that makes me more competitive" as an applicant, she says. Volunteering in Africa, she says, "is a more-valuable experience than working at some job, like a bank, for a few years."
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