Teach For America is proud to partner with Bain & Company.
REMINDER: Apply by February 13, 2009 for eligibility.
Joining Teach For America before pursuing a career in business will provide you with the management experience and skills that will help you have a greater impact in the business world. By committing two years to teach in a low-income community, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to assume tremendous responsibility—managing a classroom of students, setting ambitious goals, and inspiring your students to meet those goals. Through this experience, alumni say that they developed invaluable communication and time-management skills that are highly transferable to a career in business.
Partnership Benefits
- Two-year deferrals for students who receive job offers from Bain and are also accepted into Teach For America.
- Bain & Company recruits Teach For America corps members for full-time and summer internship opportunities.
Eligibility Requirements
Deferral Partnership Details
- In order to be eligible for a Bain & Company deferral, candidates must apply to Teach For America by February 13, 2009. All applications must be completed and submitted via www.teachforamerica.org.
- Once a candidate has been accepted by Teach For America and has a full-time offer from Bain & Company, the candidate must inform Bain & Company that s/he would like to apply for a two-year deferral through the Bain & Company - Teach For America partnership.
- Teach For America applicants have one week to confirm whether they will join the corps after they are notified of acceptance. Deferral candidates that require extra time to coordinate their deferral may e-mail Teach For America’s admissions team (admissions@teachforamerica.org) to request a decision extension.
If you have other questions about the deferral program, please contact Glenna Pickett at Glenna.Pickett@bain.com and/or Sarah Horsch at sarah.horsch@teachforamerica.org.
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