C2 Education Reviews

Current Employee – been working at C2 Education part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible working environment. Great relationship with students. Abundant resources.

Cons – Not very well run. Targeted student to tutor ratio exceeds maximum promised in their employment manual. Forced parent-tutor interaction, which is also against what is stated in the employment manual.

Advice to Senior Management – Read the employment manual you have every employee abide by, digest it, and follow it yourselves.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at C2 Education full-time for less than a year

Pros – No overtime required.
Always nice to help children.
Company policy to keep crazy parents away from you.
Most coworkers were nice.

Cons – They use off-the-shelf teaching materials that's often useless.
Charge clients a ton.
Tutors are underpaid relative to what they charge clients.
Often promise what is impossible to deliver (such as full knowledge of college level introductory chemistry in 45 days to high-school sophomores).
Some instructor peers are highly unprofessional and there's no HR to deal with it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at C2 Education full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good pay, good hours, nice people

Cons – Could be a little more organized

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at C2 Education

Pros – - Good Company Training Materials
- Students are awesome to work with.
- Having 3 different students at different levels makes the work varied and interesting.
- You drive to one building. Stay there for 2-6 hours. Then you leave.

Cons – - Many directors lack rudimentary skills in English, scheduling, and yes, management.
- Many directors have no backgrounds in education and no experience as tutors, so beyond really, really wanting to make commissions, they have no idea what goes into making the students better.
- No health benefits.
- A definite glass ceiling if you're not a Korean woman. Seriously. Parents will call to complain if an assistant doesn't speak Korean.
- Scheduling can change at a moments notice, leaving the tutor to suddenly have to prep for a new student.
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Advice to Senior Management – PLEASE separate the sales and management components of C2; maybe hire an actual teacher part-time or give additional pay to a current tutor. Those in charge seem overwhelmed by what they're asked to do, and the result is not just annoying or inconvenient for students or tutors, it's also costing you money (re: Directors lose track of who is coming and going while they're trying to make their monthly sales quotas.)

Former Employee – worked at C2 Education

Pros – This is a fine place to work if you have never been a teacher or tutor. They have lots of systems of paperwork you need to know and follow, and if you don't have your own way of running your tutoring sessions, this will be good for you. If you have worked in the private tutoring industry, I suppose this is the way it goes? I don't know, it was my first and, I hope, last experience at a tutoring agency. I have had great results, feedback, etc with my in-home tutoring experiences and my 4 years of classroom teaching. Not so much here.

Cons – 1. unclear requirements for the paperwork and admonishments when you don't properly complete the weird systems of recording...
2. ambiguous expectations--you know your "stuff" but are you being fun enough? they focus on knowledge in their tutors and ask over and over again that you will be available for 1-2 years at a time (!), but when it comes down to it, if students become miffed at any little thing and complain about you, you are chastised. ("she kept making us look up words we didn't know and we think it was because she didn't know the meanings of the words and/or she should have just told us) i realize this makes me sound rude and bitter, but i have had and currently have great relationships with kids that i'm tutoring outside of this business...
3. rude management: generally ignoring your presence, passing off questions to assistant managers, extraordinarily late notice of scheduled hours, expecting you to be available to stay late on a moment's notice, "punishment" (fewer hours) when you aren't available at a moment's notice. in general, they take the hours you say you are available and consider themselves owning those hours of your time. it felt like slavery.
4. too many kids with varying degrees of requirements per session: how can i do a good job as a tutor when i have a 9 year old, a 14 year old and an 18 year old all working on different items with different levels of need and attention spans? any GREAT TEACHER knows that you can't differentiate that much at the same time!

Advice to Senior Management – 1.don't give kids so much voice on who's a great tutor. support your staff!
2. don't overload your tutor with 3 kids who need vastly different help at the same time
3. pay more---based on experience and degree--i would have stuck it out if this agency paid even near what in-home tutoring paid
4. be realistic about your tutors available hours and respect them
5. quit micromanaging
6. RESPECT TEACHERS

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at C2 Education

Pros – This is my first teaching job. But during training and my first few months teaching, all I could think was, "I wish my learning experience in high school was like this." I really believe C2 has world class teaching systems and training for its tutors. I like that my hours are flexible and the pay is good for what it is. My manager is a little micro-managing, and I wish we had some health benefits. Other than that, it's been a lot of fun so far.

Cons – No health insurance offered to part-time employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide some health benefits to part-time employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at C2 Education

Pros – The schedule is already made, and you don't have to do any marketing to get students. All of that is handled by the center.

Cons – You get paid far less to tutor anywhere between 1-4 kids at a time than you would if you were tutoring privately one-to-one.

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure you hire center directors whose grasp of English grammar is at least as good as a middle schooler. Sometimes you will hear (and see) silly mistakes on things the clients can see, and it makes the tutors look bad.

Former Employee – worked at C2 Education

Pros – My manager, Sunny, was really flexible with my working hours while I was doing my med school interviews. Also, the students there were a blast. I've done tutoring gigs before at places like Kaplan, and never before have I had students come back to thank me after getting accepted to college. C2 really helped a lot of students get into their dream school, and I'm a huge believer in their program after my tenure there.

Cons – It's a wonderful transition job for 9-12 months, but career opportunities beyond basic tutoring are limited. I had some initial grumblings about my hours, but since it's hourly you can't really do anything about it until you are assigned your load of students.

Advice to Senior Management – Have students be more diligent about giving a heads up about upcoming school assignments. Also, students and parents need to stick to their schedules more closely.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at C2 Education

Pros – Flexible work environment with all teaching materials readily available. The center is accommodating, you get paid on time and the environment is friendly.

Cons – Teaching 3 kids at the same time, who are at different levels and have different needs, may be stressful for some.

Advice to Senior Management – A pleasant and flexible place to work. I appreciate being paid on time and the flexibility this job provides. The location is fairly convenient as well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at C2 Education

Pros – I was a tutor for almost 2 years as I was getting ready for graduate school. The management was really flexible in giving me time to study as well as pursue research internships. Also, the students were really good at C2. I've worked at other places providing SAT prep, but I found C2's system to really encourage a camaraderie with students that you normally don't find anywhere else.

Cons – You need to provide advance notice of changes in your schedule (3-4 weeks at least). Also, there are some last minute changes to the schedule when students don't show, so your expected pay varies from 2-4 hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management – More feedback on teaching performance would be great. There are occasional webinars which are great, and I wish there was more support like this.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend