Companies Coordinate With a Charity to Attract Young Workers

Companies have started to offer young job candidates who want to work at Teach for America the option of deferring job offers, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Google, General Electric, and other companies say it makes sense to allow young people to participate in Teach for America, a program that puts recent graduates in needy school districts for two years, before they join the for-profit world. Some of the companies offer recent graduates signing bonuses as soon as they agree to join the business, rather than waiting until they actually show up at work.

Dan Marks, a physics major at Princeton University, was heading toward a finance job and away from a nonprofit job as he was leaving college, but decided to teach after he realized he could do both.

Mr. Marks told the paper that he had earlier “perceived them to be mutually exclusive options.”

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