Offering Students A Job: What BP Should Do
With all of the furor about BP’s difficulties in containing the massive oil eruption from their offshore-undersea drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, it would seem that many people are spending an inordinate amount of time on merely blaming the company for all of the world’s ills. Not only is Louisiana showing continued environmental damage from the sludge washing ashore, other nearby states, like Florida and Alabama, are now exhibiting large swathes of inhabited land impacted by the toxic crude.
But at the same time, many college and high school students are experiencing extreme difficulty in securing summer jobs.
Why not bring the two groups together? BP should seriously consider hiring students to help in the massive shoreline cleanup activities, which appear to be hampered by lack of manpower and/or lack of interest by professional environmentalist groups. This also provides BP with an unprecedented opportunity to vet potential candidates for careers with the company to assist in future cleanup initiatives.