Footprints Recruiting

Footprints Recruiting is an ESL teacher placement agency headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It places native English speakers, who have a bachelor's degree, in schools teaching English as a second language, primarily in Asia, but also in Europe, South America and the Middle East. Teaching experience or ESL training is not required in many cases.

The business was founded in 2001 by ESL teachers Jeff Strachan and Ben Glickman. Footprints Recruiting has offices in Vancouver, Canada; Adelaide, Australia and Daegu, South Korea. In its first year, Footprints helped send 50 teachers abroad; in 2008, they placed more than 1,000.

A major benefit of using Footprints Recruiting to get a teaching job abroad is that schools pay the recruiting fee - there is no charge to the teacher. As part of the teaching package, schools often offer their teachers free housing and round trip air-fare. To insure that all Footprints placed teachers have a high level of integrity, all applicants are screened, including for criminal records, using independent organizations. Similarly, all schools that do business with Footprints are screened.

Footprints Recruiting offers a professional library of teaching aids/lesson plans to their teachers (and the public) at no cost as well as access to Footprints teachers on the ground who act as mentors. Footprints' business motto is: Putting Teachers First.

Footprints Recruiting is listed by the Harvard School of Education on its job website list and by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. The company currently has teachers placed in Brunei, Chile, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Oman, Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

In May 2010 Footprints Recruiting signed a contract with the government of Georgia to provide 1,000 English teachers a year. Several of their teachers were interviewed by the New York Times about their experiences in Georgia.

In 2011 the company completed the purchase of a Korean recruiting company called t4t.

In August, 2012, Ben Glickman founded ESL101.com, a resource for the ESL community, including a job board, school, recruiter and teacher directory, and directory of articles on current ESL issues.

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