Eastbound is an American-founded recruitment firm on the ground in Beijing. We personally interview, vet, and prepare every candidate, so your school only ever meets teachers worth hiring.
If you've recruited international staff in China, you've seen it: agencies forwarding CVs of people they've never spoken to, candidates who turn out to be visa-ineligible, no-shows on signing day, and "experienced teachers" who misrepresented everything.
Most agencies forward resumes. We deliver people.
A 15-minute call or WeChat message. We learn your school, your students, and exactly who you're looking for.
We source, interview, and verify candidates. You receive a shortlist of 2–4 people worth your time, typically within 2–3 weeks.
We coordinate interviews and demo lessons, manage offer expectations, and handle the back-and-forth.
Check-ins and communication support through the first term. We stay a phone call away for you and your new hire. Backed by our 30-day replacement guarantee.
Our founder is an American living in Beijing. He assesses candidates' English and professionalism at a native level, and he can be sitting in your office this week instead of emailing from another time zone.
We work on contingency: zero upfront fees, and we only earn when you make a hire you're happy with. If a placement doesn't work out in the first 30 days, we replace them free.
We'd rather send you three excellent candidates than thirty maybes. Your time is the scarcest resource in hiring. We treat it that way.
We're raising our own family in Beijing's international school community. We understand what schools need, and what makes a foreign teacher stay.
I started Eastbound after watching schools in Beijing get burned by volume-driven recruiters. This firm runs on a simple promise: if I wouldn't put a teacher in front of my own children, I won't put them in front of your students.
— Justin Gleason, Founder, Eastbound
A short conversation is all it takes to start a search. Zero upfront fees. You only pay when you hire.
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