The Peace Corps: Where The Jobs Are!
Let's have a big round of applause for those of us who proudly peopled the middle of the grade spectrum!
When I was managing the Peace Corps Office in New York back in the mid-90s, I use to tell applicants that the Peace Corps was the #2, employer of college graduates, right after Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Well, things are getting tougher; the Peace Corps has fallen to #3, following Enterprise (still # 1!) and VerizonWireless, #2.
Of the top 100 Employers for the Class of 2010 (according to Phil Gardner, Director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State), the Peace Corps ‘hired’ 5230 people in 2010 with Bachelor’s Degrees, and another 743 with Masters, for a total of 5973; the agency recruited on 600 campuses. Enterprise, however, went to 800 campuses; they had zero grads with masters. (I was told when I was with the Peace Corps that Enterprise only wanted employees with C grade averages. I guess a “C” is all it takes to fill out those forms!) The Peace Corps, by the way, has more master’s level Volunteers than Verizon; they hired just 500 with master’s degrees.
So, it’s nice to know more people are joining the Peace Corps then working for Waste Management Inc. (#4); U.S. Navy (#7); State Department (#9); Accenture (#22); or even Boy Scouts of America (#45).
John. There you go, knocking those of us who graduated with “gentleman’s C’s.”
Let’s have a big round of applause for those of us who proudly peopled the middle of the grade spectrum!