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Hard Times? Recession? Teach Abroad - Why Not?

“There are still jobs out there... you just have to know where to look.”

Stop. Read this carefully. Footprints Recruiting is HIRING NOW. We have literally hundreds of teaching jobs starting EVERY MONTH. If you apply today, you could have a job in a week and you could be abroad teaching in a little over a month.

Stop. Think about this. ANY degree. Free airfare. Free housing. Good salary. It comes as no surprise to anyone that this global recession is affecting people dramatically. Uni grads are having a tough time finding work and recently hired people are looking at being the first to lose their jobs. This is not a fun market for job seekers. So hold on, why not have an experience of a life time. Teach English for a year or two overseas. Earn great money, have your airfare and housing paid for, heck, you can even send money home to pay down debt or play the market and hopefully take full advantage of this current economic fiasco.

Footprints Works With The Best

About Footprints - Footprints Benefits

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:

Olympics come to Vancouver and to Footprints

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Just hours before the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, the official torch run wound its way through the streets of Vancouver before lighting the cauldron to start the games. At around 9am on February 12th, Footprints staff took a moment to go downstairs to see the torch pass right by our front door. We cheered on as the flame going past displaying our national colours. Currently in the office we represent six different nations with staff from Canada, US, China, Korea and our current interns from Japan and Switzerland.

Education Bureau (EDB) of Hong Kong SAR Government Selects Footprints

Hong Kong Information - Teaching in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Education Bureau has formally selected Footprints Recruiting as the official, exclusive provider of Canadian teachers to the Hong Kong Primary and Secondary Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) positions. This announcement comes on the wake of the Vancouver School Board announcing that 800 teachers with less than 5 years experience will be laid off in June 2010 which positions these certified teachers in good stead to get a job teaching in a public school in Hong Kong.

Teachers Seeking Classrooms

Teacher Playground - Chalk Talk

Unfortunately, many schools districts in North America are closing schools and cutting programs. There are many reasons for this including lowered enrollment, and increased costs. Whatever the reason, this has left many recent graduates from university education departments without teaching jobs. Additionally, there are more seasoned teachers who have suddenly found themselves with reduced classroom time or without a classroom altogether. Most teachers went into this profession because of their passion for teaching and their joy of learning. The inability to actively participate in their chosen field is often devastating with many teachers fleeing the profession for other careers.

There is another choice. Recently, there has been an increase in demand for certified teachers in ESL positions overseas. Many of these positions are in public schools where there’s the opportunity to work with a team of other certified teachers, and to participate in many school activities. With positions from various Ministries of Education in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan just for starters, the choices are limitless.

Eventually more positions will open up in your home country, but for now why not take the opportunity to learn from teachers in other countries, gain some ESL experience and travel beyond your borders? Choose to continue teaching and share your passion with other educators and students from around the world.

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