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Friday, April 15, 2011

Do you want to be an Online Tutor...?

Online tutoring is still in its primary levels of establishment. But it still stands as one of the best jobs for students in search of online jobs. Till now, more than 70,000 students have benefited by this kind of tutoring and are registered on internet. These days online tutors are in extreme demand, but before searching for online jobs lets talk about what should you expect from this work and what is expected from you :-







Job Introduction:
                                 The basic task expected from an online tutor is to either teach people or give them help in completing their projects The clients can even be the elder people who are interested in learning new language, writing or music or something like that only. You’ll  be setting up an online sitting with your students utilizing the internet which can either be done individually or in little groups. There are various software systems  available that provides online whiteboards, examination, study material distribution and a server of additional features for tutoring, and also a chat gadget where you can chat with your students through the internet.
Tutoring people online is the most beneficial job for those students who are studying the same subjects. You can also have the choice to work as per your own schedule if the job allows,which means that even while making money in your free time you can still complete your normal studies.



Prerequisites:
                          Generally for these kind of tutoring jobs you must at-least have a Bachelor’s degree, but even if you don’t posses any degree, a few companies might hire you if you provide them some form of teaching certifications. It’ll help you greatly if you have deep knowledge about the subject and if you hold some experience.
With any job, it’s clear that you should have really fine people skills, fine management, be an excellent communicator and the power to interact comfortably with other people, so it also helps you develop your skills. In a few prospects, online tutoring proves out to be more of a challenge as you’re linking up virtually and  you do not have the power to attend physically in the room and therefore you’ll have to align your demonstration formulas to maintain the content occupying.



Job searching:
                           Finding an online tutoring job is not at all difficult these days, all that you have to do is to sign up with the tutoring companies which employs online tutors, their are numerous companies who employ online tutors these days, all you need is, to carefully read their employment policies and procedures,make sure that you meet their requirements, and also find out how much money they are offering you. Once you have found a good company, do some research on it, and before signing up make certain that its not fraud, you should be alert that you are not caught up in any scam.
  Another way could be that, you try out and line up your own students. This can work well if you’re at a university with a lot of students. Some times you’ll encounter “tutor wanted” on the boards or in the university advertisements. It is a good practice to demand for a referral from every individual that you tutor as this can be applied to acquire further students in the time to come. You can publish leaflets, and set up advertisements in the campus newspaper, bulletin board, classifieds or internet sites...







18 comments:

  1. That's a really good idea! If only I had something to teach -_- siigh...

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  2. the art of making scary, yet funny songs? any metalbands would hire you erika

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  3. I heard this is growing pretty rapidly. Might do it part-time later on...

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  4. real life tutors get paid $100/hr

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  5. I would love to do online tutoring, but I can't teach to save my life >_<

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  6. hmmmm... thats a good idea!

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  7. sounds like a worthwhile thing to do.
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  8. i rather tutor in real life

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  9. My older brother tutors, and he'd rather do so IRL.

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  10. it's better in real life. the money is good and you can actually work with them..

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  11. You know I never thought of this. this is a great idea!

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  12. Anything to make a few extra bucks.

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  13. Wow, I would have never thought of online tutoring, it sounds like there's real opportunity there

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  14. Online tutoring? sounds awesome!

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  15. I've been looking at doing IRL tutoring, but this might also be a good idea on the side.

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