Hiring private tutors for SAT / ACT / ISEE / SSAT

Were you a standardized test wizard? Competitive Edge Tutoring is hiring tutors!

Make your own schedule at a high hourly rate: tutoring can seamlessly work around another job, your passion project, or your class schedule, though exceptional candidates can and do make tutoring their full-time profession. Training, materials, and professional development are provided.

To apply, please reply to this ad with a resume and cover letter, which should include both your tutoring qualifications and your long-term goals (e.g., pending applications to graduate school, post-baccalaureate programs in preparation for medical applications, enrollment in graduate school, pursuit of work in the performing arts, etc); we want to know what you are like personally and academically!

Please check out www.CompetitiveEdgeTutoring.com to gain a sense of our mission and operation.

Starting Compensation: $75/hr+ with yearly raises. $105/hr+ after 2 years and strong performance.

Tutors must be able to contractually commit to 15 tutoring hours per week through June 2025.

Requirements:

-Undergraduate degree from an Ivy League University or equivalent (e.g., Amherst, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford, etc.)

-College-level degrees and coursework that indicate expertise in both quantitative and verbal portions of standardized entrance exams

-Post-5pm availability Monday – Thursday and full-day availability on either Saturday OR Sunday, ideally (some flexibility here)

-Exceptional communication and social skills and mentorship or teaching experience

-Verifiable 99th percentile or above SAT or ACT scores

-Successful completion of screening tests (truncated online versions of the tests you will be tutoring, administered online)

-Location in the NYC metro area with the ability to meet students in person in Manhattan (beginning no later than this September); many students still opt for remote tutoring, but others want to work in person

Tutors who do pass their screenings exams are invited to interview; interviews will be conducted over zoom and scheduled on a rolling basis during the month of August. There will be a Zoom training for hired tutors at date TBD in early September.

A stand out application will include:

-Tutoring or classroom teaching experience

-Completion of graduate-level degree(s)

Bonus points for applicants who:

-Live in Manhattan

-Possess one-on-one standardized test tutoring experience with references

-Fanatically check email

-Can tutor AP-level French, Spanish, biology, chemistry, physics, United States history, world history or math ranging from algebra to calculus BC