The most obvious benefit of tutoring is to earn some extra cash. Tutoring usually pays more per hour than many other kinds of informal work. If you are good at what you do, and are willing to put in a real endeavour, tutoring can be as lucrative as any part-time job, but usually with greater flexibility than other jobs.
Tutoring, however, can be a pleasing thing to do in other ways, too. I have worked in many areas, as an employee of the government, within universities, in the private sector, and in small business. While each has had its own benefits, private tutoring has been something I have always found the most rewarding. Rewarding for many reasons.
Tutoring also keeps you ‘on the ball’. If your work uses the subject area you decide to tutor, you are likely to find that the exercise of helping to explain the subject to your students actually helps to strengthen your own appreciation of the subject area.
Tutoring is also likely to improve your spoken communication skills. You end up getting very good at saying what you mean, clearly and concisely. This can be invaluable in other situations in your life.
If you’re still a student yourself, you’ll most likely find that tutoring experience looks very good on your curriculum vitae or resume when you are looking for full-time work after graduation. Many recruiters will say that a person who has worked for themselves as a tutor probably shows entrepreneurial skills, an ability to teach others, responsibility, motivation, and an ability to organise their time.
Tutoring can help you improve your own self-confidence. There is nothing quite as pleasing as seeing someone do well because of the help you have given them as a tutor. You’ll find too, that most students are honestly thankful for your help, and demonstrate their gratitude through things like referring other students to you for assistance. Tutoring offers great opportunities for word-of-mouth business building. Most people who tutor agree that it is one of the only areas of their working life in which they felt they had ‘made a real difference’ to someone’s life.
Tutoring is something that has many rewards when compared with other types of work. I encourage you to think about getting into this fun and lucrative form of small business.
