June 15, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia,  It’s Academic Educational Staffing (It’s Academic), Canada’s leading academic placement service, announced in a written statement that the company had placed a mid-level, bi-lingual marketing specialist for  ITTTI-Vancouver, an accredited and well-known Canadian ESL (English as a second language) school.

“We’re very excited about this accomplishment,” wrote It’s Academic’s Managing Director, John Becker. “It’s Academic is getting recognized in the education community as a powerfull recruiting alternative for high quality ESL classroom teachers and other types of stand-out professionals. We can source and secure the highest performing academic recruiting professionals for our clients.”

Research indicates that ESL schools in both the U.S. and Canada have had to cope with shrinking market share due to the effect of H1N1 and the global recession.  This puts a tremendous strain on institutions tasked with quickly and cost-effectively sourcing top talent, yet they also can’t afford to not have a highly effective recruiting and academic team in place.

“We want the academic community to understand the value It’s Academic delivers. The hidden costs of carrying out recruiting tasks internally can be significant, and then if your new hire is a poor performer or doesn’t work out, your back at square one. This undercuts the competiveness of the organization and the educational services delivered to students,” Becker wrote in a recent article on the company’s website.

“As part of company protocol, we undertake a vigorous recruitment campaign on behalf of our clients, which range from colleges and universities to K-12 public and private schools to corporations. In this case, a bi-lingual Korean/English marketing specialist was recruited and secured and they that have already boosted our client-school’s enrollment in the domestic and international market,” Becker wrote.

The company maintains a huge database of active and passive job seekers spanning the globe. “This cuts down search time, and that saves schools money.” It’s Academic simplifies recruitment by eliminating the cost and expense of vetting numerous, unqualified candidates, and we guarantees placement success. “We have global penetration in the academic placement services market. We understand the needs and goals of schools and job seekers in the education community. This enables It’s Academic to leverage a huge database of candidate possibilities, cutting search time and delivering successful outcomes for our client-institutions across the full spectrum of academic jobs.”

The director of ITTI , Sherri Motohashi,  stated in the It’s Academic report, “It’s Academic is an organization that is in touch with the right people. I can highly recommend them for your staffing needs.”

“Our initial search produced more than 200 candidates,” Becker explained. “Using our standard, detailed vetting process, we delivered a list of four candidates to the client’s search committee, greatly cutting search time.” Typically, It’s Academic undertakes credentials verification, background checks, reference checks and face-to-face interviews during its qualification process. “These services saves time and money for search committees. We do the “heavy lifting” so the client-school remains focused on its core mission – education.”

The report from It’s Academic concludes with an assessment of the placement of a marketing director within this Canadian-based, ESL school. “It took less than three weeks of vetting to make the final placement,” the report indicates. “It’s Academic specialized Korean professional marketer has been in place for five months and has already had a significant impact on student enrollment.”

About It’s Academic   

It’s Academic is the only academic placement service with global reach in all areas of educational staffing, from college- and university-level administrators and directors to highly-specialized professionals in ESL, Montessori, bi-lingual education, marketing and student recruitment.

The company – Canada’s leading academic placement specialists – maintains an extensive, proprietary database of active and passive job seekers in the global education community. Further, It’s Academic maintains a network of local representatives throughout Canada and the U.S. who maintain databases of local professionals seeking substitute, sessional and permanent placement.

This network, combined with an ever-expanding pool of talent across the entire academic spectrum, enables It’s Academic to simplify recruitment and placement. “We’re also the only academic placement service that guarantees new hires,” the company statement concluded.

It’s Academic was founded in 2006 to fill the niche between open job boards that over-deliver unqualified candidates, and expensive recruitment companies. The company’s narrow focus on the academic community makes It’s Academic the premium staffing agency in Canada for schools and universities, providing initial consultation, recruitment and vetting services to schools, both in North America and around the world.