5 Essential Tools for Hiring and Managing Tutors
With the rise of online learning, the tutoring industry has taken off. For many tutors, what may start as just a part-time independent tutoring practice could potentially scale into a multi-million dollar, multi-contractor business. Take Yup, for example, a web-based tutoring company that just raised an additional four million dollars to grow its network of tutors and students. Studypool is another online tutoring platform helping students and tutors connect at a large scale.
While there’s never been an easier time to start a tutoring business, it remains difficult to scale. A suite of tools have cropped up that seamlessly meet the needs of growing tutoring companies. Let’s take a look at these 5 essential tools and how they’ll improve your business.
Tutor Background Checks – Checkr
Before you even hire and schedule a new tutor, you should definitely do a full background check using a professional people lookup tool. Tutors will be working with students often one-on-one in different settings and you must make sure the person you hire is fully qualified to work with clients. Checkr makes conducting full and thorough background checks on potential hires easy and affordable. Pricing depends on your business size.
Payments and Taxes for Employees — Gusto
For hiring and paying your tutors as employees, Gusto makes onboarding and payroll incredibly simple.
Tutor Scheduling — WhenIWork
WhenIWork makes an excellent platform and app for scheduling tutors. Easily keep track of when and where your team is teaching. Plus the app makes it easy to view each tutor’s availability and enables you to easily find replacements among your tutor base if needed.
Resources and communication — Basecamp
Every tutoring business has a collection of resources, from practice tests and worksheets to collecting and communicating best practices. Basecamp is an awesome platform to pool, store, and share those resources with your team. Additionally, it allows you to track tasks and projects with both teams of tutors and students.
