Teach For America is proud to partner with Google.

REMINDER: Apply by November 7, 2008 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.

Teach For America corps members exhibit the creativity, leadership abilities, and civic consciousness that we place such a premium on. Providing these grads with the opportunity to spend two transformative years teaching in low-income communities across the country is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do, as they will arrive at Google with an excellent skill set developed in a demanding work environment and a greater commitment to the larger world.

- Laszlo Bock, VP of People Operations, Google

Partnership Benefits

• Two-year deferrals for students who receive job offers from Google and are also accepted into Teach For America.
• Google mentor for corps members during their two year corps experience.
• Google will consider Teach For America corps members for full time opportunities. (Google will treat Teach For America as a 'core recruiting school.')
  
  

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates must be offered a position within one of Google’s participating business groups:

  • Online Sales & Operations, People Operations, Engineering (on a case by case basis)
• Candidates must meet all of Teach For America's minimum application requirements.
  
  

Deferral Partnership Details

• Once a candidate has been accepted by Teach For America and has a full-time offer from one of the participating Google business groups, the candidate must inform Google that s/he would like to apply for a two-year deferral through the
  Google - Teach For America partnership.
• Teach For America applicants have two weeks 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 Sarah Horsch at sarah.horsch@teachforamerica.org.