Footprints Staff - ESL Teacher Placement Specialists

Who and What is Footprints Recruiting?

Founded by two English teachers, Jeff Strachan and Ben Glickman, Footprints Recruiting Inc. recruits exceptional ESL instructors from English speaking countries for placement in safe, reputable English institutes worldwide.

Utilizing over 10 years of overseas teaching experience Footprints ensures our teachers and employers are informed every step of the way.

Footprints representatives in Asia, Europe and South America, recruit new qualified institutes and maintain open communication with our head office at all times.

Since incorporating in 2001 Footprints Recruiting has been under the direct management of Ben Glickman and Jeff Strachan. Together they have grown their business into the international success it is today.

Mission Statement:

To place good teachers with outstanding English schools around the world.

Teachers for Teachers - The Faces of Footprints

Ben Glickman

Co-Founder - Director of Employer Relations
I was born and raised in Maine, USA, the state where earmuffs were invented. At age seventeen with a pair of earmuffs in one hand and a scholarship to a liberal arts college in the
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Jeff Strachan

Co-Founder - Managing Director
My inspiration to become an English teacher came from my father. No, dad isn't an English teacher or a lover of literature, and he isn't much of a speller either. Pops mis-spelled my name when he filled
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Scott Kim

Korea General Manager and Placement Coordinator
Footprints Recruiting Korean Representative Scott Kim has 5 years of management experience as the Director of Foreign teachers at one of the largest language schools in Korea. Scott is available to support Footprints teachers for
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Kara Stirling

Director of Recruiting - Teacher Recruiter Specialist - Footprints Alumni
So a bio huh….one day at work in Footprints head office Jeff Strachan says ‘Hey Kara, you haven’t written your bio yet have you?’----NOPE! So, I begin the process For some
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Will Turner

Recruiting Department - Teacher Recruiter Specialist - Footprints Alumni
Recent graduate and would be teacher needs a job.
Has student loans.
Will travel.
That is how it all began, and there wasn’t really much more to it than that. A friend
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Andrea McLean

Teacher Recruiter Specialist
I had just moved to Vancouver when I found a small, unassuming ad on-line inviting me to apply for a job at Footprints. Here I am. Accepted that invitation, and I’m glad I did! I was more than
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Jordan Cash

Teacher Recruiter Specialist
Who is Jordan and why is he working at Footprints? I guess that’s the question that I’m going to endeavor to answer in this “bio”. For the sake of filling up as much space as humanly possible, I’ll
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Melissa Faraguna

Director of Advertising and Marketing & Intern Coordinator
Hesitantly, I begin this- the bio that is! I say hesitantly because unlike everyone else at the office, I apparently lack that bit of altruism and quest for betterment that has led everyone
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Bennett Ho

China & Taiwan Placement Coordinator - Footprints Alumni
Bennett was born in Malaysia with Chinese heritage and the first words he spoke were in English. He received his education in the UK during his elementary years and completed his secondary and
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Ryan Proctor

Korea Public School Placement Coordinator
So how did I end up at Footprints? In a roundabout way I guess you could say it started when I was a kid reading to my brother every night, teaching him how to read. I
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Dave Harvey

Korea Language School Placement Coordinator - Footprints Alumni
Well, where to begin.I was born in Halifax, grew up in the 'burbs of Toronto (Brampton), spent summers in beautiful Charlevoix, Quebec, and then off to Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. While
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Jennifer Alexander

Korea Language School Placement Coordinator - Footprints Alumni
Bio soon to come!
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Mariam Demian

Alumni Coordinator - Footprints Alumni
You know that picture? I know you know it. The picture in your head of what the future is supposed to look like? We all have a vague idea of what we think will happen post-University
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Guy Duke

Korea Public School Placement Coordinator - Footprints Alumni
I always get stumped when asked the standard question, “Where are you from?” I don’t mean that in any philosophical sort of way, just that I’ve always been moving around and, thus, confining
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Ty Chiu

Accounts Manager
While it’s true that I am the only person in Footprints that has not lived and taught overseas, it is also true that I am half-Asian. That counts for something right? I mean, I have actual ROOTS in the
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