Footprints Recruiting

Whether you're a teacher or a school you can be assured that Footprints Recruiting looks to work with the best.  Despite incredible international attention from both schools and teachers, Footprints has kept a firm grip on growth since 2001, ensuring that we represent the best of both worlds.

Getting great teachers help good schools retain students, build their reputation and it means less hassles for them in term of management and training of their staff.  Footprints provides a huge advantage for schools because we provide them with some of the best teachers in the industry and we provide support to help develop teachers and make the transition to life abroad less taxing and stressful so teachers are successful and happy. Similarly, we ensure our client schools are leaders in the industry and that they offer some of the best teaching situations for our teachers.

Footprints proudly works with schools that offer great work environments, excellent compensation packages and we proudly offer these teaching jobs EVERY month.

Here is a list of just a couple of our great clients:

Footprints Recruiting is "the" teachers placement agency. 

Our recruiters are experienced teachers who understand what it's like to be a foreigner teaching abroad.  We are the industry experts and we are your advocate to help you get the best teaching job with the best school with the least amount of challenge or confusion to you.  We aim to make this process simple for you. 

The most important function of our teacher placement services is our commitment to teachers.  We stand by our teachers throughout the duration of their contracts with lesson plan support and through any problems they encounter.

Footprints Recruiting offers a free, high level of service which is hard to match in the international ESL industry. Footprints was created BY teachers FOR teachers and we are very proud of the teacher centric focus of our company.

Working at Footprints Recruiting is a rewarding experience.  Check out a video presented to Ben and Jeff from one of our interns who is dearly missed.

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 other I left Maine for Portland, Oregon. Four years later I graduated with a degree in comparative religious studies. Finding the job prospects for novice oracles exceedingly dim I entered the not so exciting field of college fundraising. My boss and I found out simultaneously that asking rich people for money wasn't my calling and came to the mutual conclusion that I should move to another country as soon as possible.

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 out my birth certificate and the constant teasing I received led me to my calling in life - spelling. At least I am luckier than my brother Danny, in a big Freudian slip dad filled out the name on his birth certificate as 'Danial.' I'm just happy dad didn't want to name me Humperdink.

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 all manners of problems and is working with Footprints to ensure we represent the best schools in the industry.

Placement Department Manager - Footprints Alumni

I started at Footprints in February of 2007, and am currently the manager of the Placement Department.

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 earning my degrees in Outdoor Recreation and Geography at Lakehead in northern Ontario I took a year off to follow a dream of hiking the whole Appalachian Trail- all 2167 miles (3500~km) from the state of Georgia to Maine in 2000, then back to school to finish up my degrees.

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 else into the field of teaching.

I know, I know, looking at that sweet smile, and inviting face you question my meaning, but let me tell you I certainly didn’t begin my life as an E.S.L. tutor thinking that I could enrich the lives of children by bringing the wonders of the English language into their lives...

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 recommended that I apply to Footprints, and after being interviewed by Kara, Ben found me a job in Ulsan, South Korea, where I taught for a year and then extended my contract for another eight months.

Screening & Marketing Intern

I was born in a small town called Machala in Ecuador.  When i was a child I always dreamed about traveling to different countries and meeting new people from different cultures.  My first experience away from home was when I attended University in a city called Guayaquil.

Korea Teacher Placement Coordinator

I have been putting off writing this bio for a very long time.  I am not exactly sure what I should be writing, but I will try my best to sum up my teaching/traveling experiences and hopefully this might inspire some of you to follow suit in starting the amazing adventure that is teaching ESL abroad.

Teacher Placement Coordinator 

I did not decide to teach in Korea because of a life-long love of culture.  I grew up in 2 teeny, tiny towns in Saskatchewan (holla!) where both populations combined were less than 20,000 people.  The only culture I experienced was walking home from school past the taxidermist who, due to some unfortunate deformity, had a mouth on the side of his face instead of in the center.  He spoke with what I took to be an accent, and I thought that was exotic.

In House Legal Counsel

My path to Footprints was indirect, full of zigs and zags.  I have worked, studied and traveled on five continents, making new friends and enjoying myself every step of the way.

Footprints Long Term Intern

Hi there,

I guess now it's my turn!  This was one of the first sentences that I ever learned in English at school and will never forget, just because of the way it sounds.  I said to myself what an "easy going" language and started to enjoy learning it at school, and I always had the dream to go abroad one day.  But before I continue just let me introduce myself.

Public School Placement Coordinator

I was born and raised in the wonderful state of Colorado.  Not being a fan of the cold weather, skiing or snowboarding, I moved to the desert for University.  While I was at ASU, I decided to become a teacher, heard the pay was fantastic.  I entered the education program thinking that in a few short years I would have my own classroom.  The thing I didn't realize was just how much I didn't want to grow up after graduation.  I figured, there would come a time where I would have to grow up, so I should probably live in a bunch of different places first.  That's when I found the job position on Monster.com to teach English in South Korea.

South America Business Development Specialist

Born in Buenos Aires Argentina, I landed in Chile when I was 9. As time passed by, I got my professional degree in Architecture and curiosity. That is how, along with my life-time partner, I began a search for those things that we have always felt passion for individually and collectively. For us, travels were the path to discovery. After quitting the comfort of the big city, and while on our way back to Chile from another long, long trip, Vancouver Canada became the last stop before returning to a more settled kind of life in Chile. That return was everything but such, and found us packing again as soon as we arrived in Chile and we were heading back to Vancouver, where a masters in sustainable design and great friends were awaiting.

SKYPE username: Footprints-Recruiting

USA and CANADA Tollfree: 1 888 677-3166 ext 2001

CANADA

• Calgary: (403) 536-6999
• Halifax: (902) 442-8445
• Ottawa: (613) 288-9267
• Toronto: (647) 259-8665
• Winnipeg: (204) 975-4985
• Vancouver: (604) 677-6556

AUSTRALIA

• Adelaide: 08 8298 1964

SOUTH KOREA

• Daegu: (053) 358-4595

Footprints Recruiting recruits teachers from every native English speaking country in the world.   Our head office is located in Vancouver, Canada.

Head Office: Vancouver, Canada Address: 500 - 55 Water Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1A1 Tollfree: 1 888 677-3166 (accessible in North America only) Phone: +1 (604) 677-6556 Skype: Footprints-Recruiting Office hours: 9am - 5pm PST   Email:   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Map to Footprints office in Vancouver - View Larger Map

Footprints Recruiting offers teachers in Korea support from within the country in our centrally located office in Daegu, South Korea.

Footprints proudly offers our services in Australia to assist teachers from Australia and New Zealand who are interested in teaching English overseas.  Please feel free to contact us at your convenience with any questions you might have about teaching abroad.

This is a great interview with Ben Glickman on a CBC radio program called The Link.  This interview takes place on August 5, 2009 and despite a small glitch where we are referenced as Footsteps, Ben Glickman not only provides some great insight into the challenges of finding great teachers in a flooded market, but he also speaks about the increased competition in the job market as schools overseas become even more critical about who they are hiring given they have so many more choices.  Have a listen to the interview here or if you would like to hear the whole radio program please go to CBC's The Link.

• Interviewer: Carmelle
• Interviewee: Ben Glickman - Co-founder and Co-Owner of Footprints Recruiting 
• Date: August 5, 2009
• Run Time: 8 minutes 57 seconds
• Total Size of Interview Download: 8.19MB
• Source: CBC - Radio Canada Incorporated - THE LINK
• Source Link: http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/emissions/archives/archivesDetails_1952_05082009.shtml

The Vancouver Province - Inmate 6071 at Taipei Prison's drug treatment unit is a 29-year-old English teacher from Port Moody who's making use of the long days before his sentencing by learning Mandarin.

Asian Pacific Post - Taiwanese authorities are planning to work with Canada to dismantle a Vancouver-based drug trafficking operation they say was run by an English language tutor from B.C. who is now facing trial before a court in Taipei.

Asian Pacific Post - A Vancouver-based company is looking for hundreds of teachers to begin a class act in Taiwan.

Footprints Recruiting is planning to cash in on the shift by the Taiwanese government towards the use of native English speaking teachers in classrooms around the country.

Footprints on Facebook

Footprints Recruiting offers teachers opportunities to network in a variety of spaces and they are using the powerful social networking platform of Facebook to help their teachers connect worldwide.

Check out their Facebook presence to see what they are up to now.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-BC/Footprints-Recruiting-Placing-ESL-Teachers-Overseas/6298422862 

Wikipedia, one of the worlds largest online encyclopedia's of information has a great listing of Footprints Recruiting.

Check out more information about Footprints Recruiting here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprints_Recruiting

Toronto Star - Ben Glickman, co-owner of the Vancouver based company Footprints Recruiting Inc., one of the largest suppliers of ESL teachers to Asia, signed an exclusive recruiting contract with Disney English Language Center in Shanghai, China. Disney English Language Centers are part of The Walt Disney Company and are sure to spread throughout China quickly.

JoongAng Daily - Alexis Cuperus, an American living in Korea, says she won’t be going home this year, and maybe not the next year either.

TWITTER - Footprints joined TWITTER on March 17th and is looking to create a profile that will provide advice, inspiration and guidance to teachers worldwide.  We aim to provide information information through tweeting in the following areas:

• esl teaching jobs worldwide
• events worldwide that relate to teaching English
• updates on Footprints and what is happening with the company and our wonderful staff

If you have any ideas about what we should be tweeting about please let us know and we'll do what we can.

http://twitter.com/FPRecruiting

National Post - Nina Lex

TORONTO -- A growing number of recent graduates from Canadian universities are becoming English teachers overseas, discouraged by a tight job market during Canada's deepest recession in decades.