Whether you’ve been living in a massive city such as London or a small town in Scotland, we can almost guarantee that you’ve heard of the term private tutoring before. Personal tuition conducted by a qualified instructor has become increasing popular in the last decade and many persons have decided to either hire a private tutor or become one. Let’s consider if past experience as a tutor is worth anything when entering the job force.
How to Establish Yourself as a Working Tutor
Before determining whether or not tutoring can be viewed as relevant work experience, it’s important to examine how you can establish yourself as a working tutor. Starting to work as a tutor in your community can be complex. Nonetheless, there are certain steps that can be followed to ensure success. First and foremost, don’t try to offer remedial courses in all the things you are good at, focus on the academic discipline that you consistently receive good marks at and offer your classes to students in that topic. Secondly, the next step is having an online presence. How’s that? Create profiles on various online tutoring communities, have a LinkedIn account, and be prepared to network with tech-savvy individuals in the field of education that might help get farther in your career. Nowadays, the only way a tutor can make a career is by knowing how to market themselves online. Thirdly, every time you have a student that reserves a class with you, bring you’re A-game since they will most likely write you a review and recommend you to their peers. Positive feedback is necessary. If you seriously do all that you can to apply the previously mentioned tips, you will prosper as a working tutor whether in-person or online in an industry that is booming.
Will My Work Completed as a Personal Tutor Count as Something on My Resume?
Since a grand majority of personal tutors on private tutoring websites such as Superprof are only working as one-on-one educators to pay for university or to earn
a little extra cash on the side, private tutoring is often viewed as a temporary gig. Tutors tend to abandon private tutoring after finding a more stable employment position. However, since it’s not the most typical job and you don’t technically have a previous employer that can provide a reference, some wo
nder if they should include their experience as a tutor on their resume. Well, the fact of the matter stays the same: a job is a job. Tutoring for either private clients or a tutoring company is work and henceforth it counts as something relevant to add to your resume. Whether the company you are interviewing at views your past experience as a personal tutor as invalid, that’s their problem! If you’re still working as a tutor at the time of your applying for new jobs, you should mark your tutoring work as your present job and this could help get you employment positions that are similar in the education field.
In conclusion, the time you spent establishing yourself as a private tutor in your domain was never in vain since it can be something special to add to your resume. It will be appreciated if it falls upon the right set of eyes!
Nick - Superorf