Make a resume, first. List your strengths (like English and Math and what subcategory you re really good at like geometry or algebra, etc.), your grades, your GPA and all that stuff. Get some references, too. Preferably from people who can attest to your intelligence, like your teachers. Just ask a couple of your teachers if you can list them as references (all you should need are name, phone number, job title, company/school name and email address) or maybe even get a letter of recommendation that you can show to potential clients . Once you get some regular *satisfied* clients, you can ask them if you can use them as references as well. It ll look even better to future clients if they can get a real testament from established clients.As for getting yourself out there, you can put an ad in the newspaper and you can make up flyers to post up around grocery stores and around town. You can also ask if you can post your flyers up around your school and maybe go around to some elementary schools and see if you can post them there.When you get calls from potential clients, you can always setup a sort of interview with them if they d like where you can show off your resume, your references, and they can talk to you and get familiar with you. Once you have clients, the most important thing is to remain trustworthy. Don t just not show up to a job or goof off while you re supposed to be tutoring. If you re sick, running late, whatever, always call your clients ahead of time to let them know what s going on. Just don t be sick of run late all the time. =o)As for how much you should charge, I d say do it by the hour and work yourself around both your own schedule and the client s. I think clients would be more comfortable that way. Let s just say that you charge by the job (say $100 for the semester). You tutor a child for a week or two and the clients just don t feel like it s working out and they don t need your tutoring services anymore. They re either going to want all of their money back or some of it back. If they want some of it back, it s going to be hard to decide exactly how much they should get back and if they want all of it back, well now you just spent a week tutoring someone with nothing to show for it. In this situation if you charge by the hour, you at least have the money you already earned tutoring their kid and it ll be easier for you to move on. I d say $10 an hour is good rate to start at. That way, even if you tutor a kid 3 times a week an hour a day, that s $120 a month. That s not bad to start out at, especially since you probably have no bills to pay (=oP). If your services really take off, you can probably start charging a little more.So yeah. Just my opinion. Good luck! =o)
I don t know. I know I would never hire someone 15 years old to tutor one of my children.
