Tutor.com Employee Reviews about "flexible hours"

Pros

Excellent job helping students achieve academic success in their written work. The hours are flexible and fit into a part-time schedule. Bonuses are offered for specific hours when student traffic is high. Tutor technical support is efficient. Great, long-established brand with responsive mentors. I plan to work here for a long time in the future. I am happy with the flexible hours happy with the flexible hours happy with the flexible hours and the paycheck I earn for the work I perform for tutor.com. I highly recommend this top-quality company to any teacher who wants to further their tutoring skills.

Cons

Two of the biggest downsides have to do with students who try to game the system. The first is concerned with students who want us to review their work yet do not participate in the review process. It is as if they are away from the screen expecting tutors to review their work and give them results, or even do the work for them. I have had students tell me to make corrections for them. They assume that is what we are being paid to do. However, that is not our purpose. Another customer issue involves students who are told to improve their work and immediately request another session with a different tutor without first correcting their work. Students should be aware that we read what previous tutors have commented and are likely to return the papers to them with the same or similar comments that previous tutors have made. Both issues are customer issues rather than management issues. An important management issue is the Async sessions. When performing asynchronous reviews, the classroom prescripts could be available to insert into the SFF. Currently, the use of prescripts is strictly a chat function. Even using the copy and paste function to insert the prescript into the form would help eliminate the need for a lot of repetitive typing since quite a few students have similar opportunities to improve their work.

Pros

Flexible hours and teaching experience

Cons

Your a contractor and treated as such.

Pros

Flexible hours to meet your schedule and avavilability

Cons

Takes a while to advance within the company.

Pros

Rewarding and hour flexibility is good

Cons

Not many hours nor benefits

Pros

Scheduling is quite flexible as hours can be based on whenever you can based on demand.

Cons

Rapid structure sometimes doesn't allow for proper instruction, instead time is a factor most adhered to.

Pros

Flexible schedule means you can grab an hour or too in the middle of the night Can be rewarding Rarely boring

Cons

Not always enough hours available Sometimes you have horrible students Not enough feedback

Pros

Flexible schedule for hours that is very convenient

Cons

The pay is low and weight time is long

Pros

Flexible work hours and you get paid for waiting during your scheduled times

Cons

While the low pay was never too much of an issue with me (I expected this out of a side job), I was more disappointed in the review system. Prior to getting my first review, I was excited and took on every session I could get. All of my students gave me good reviews and genuinely found me helpful. However, after getting my first review, I was completely discouraged. Everything about the review was so nit-picky and contradictory. I was told to keep sessions short but also to teach and create an interactive learning environment. That was nearly impossible as sometimes, it would take over 5 minutes just to wait for a response from a student. In another incident, I was berated for blocking a student who was being rude and not following the policies. There were already comments flagging this specific student about how they were deliberately tricking tutors into writing their summary for them. When I tried to professionally turn down this student's request, they were nasty and I let them know that I couldn't help them any longer and transferred them to another session. Unfortunately, I got reconnected with them again and they proceeded to interrogate me and cause a stir because I had transferred them. I felt like I was personally attacked so I blocked them. In the end, I ended up getting a bad review from my mentor who told me that I was to NEVER transfer a student or block them for the reason I described. After that, I barely went online and when I did, I sometimes did not accept sessions, which affected my acceptance rate negatively.

Pros

The hours are flexible and you can theoretically work whenever you want - it is open 24 hours a day. You work from home, so all you need is a PC (Macs don't work on their systems). The corporate staff is extremely supportive and encouraging. There are lots of options for awards, and they take the opportunity in nearly every newsletter to tell you how valuable you are and what your work is doing to help improve the lives of students. You don't have to have any certain degree to do it. You can even be a college student. You do have to pass a subject competency test, but I found those pretty easy. The majority of the students I worked with were terrific. They knew they needed help and were so grateful to get it. If you do well and have a good mentor, you can move up the pay scale and have other opportunities pretty quickly.

Cons

Because the work is based on student demand, the hours tend to be very seasonal. It is very difficult to find even a few hours a week during winter breaks and summer. Also, the experience you have with a mentor or supervisor completely depends on that person. Some people will have great experiences because their mentors are great, but others will have terrible ones because their mentors are just checking the block and not helping the tutor understand what is required. The hours are seasonal, and it is nearly impossible to ever come close to 20 hours a week. Five hours is about the max you can schedule in a week, and the rest of the time you are sitting around waiting for students. There are strict requirements for the process and how to tutor. You have to be willing to conform to how they teach, and there are often time limits that seem nearly impossible to keep to. The pay is low.