Low Pay, Weird Hours, Sleezy Sales Tactics, Micromanagement, etc. - Academic Tutor AJ Tutoring Employee Review

Thank you for your feedback, and congratulations on your new teaching job! I’m sorry you didn’t have a great experience working for us, but I’m glad you were able to find a position with a schedule that’s a better fit for you. Since tutoring takes place after school and on weekends, the hours will almost always be non-traditional. However, we try to make the position work for our tutors as best we can, and we strive to be upfront about what that schedule will look like. In responding to your comments, I wanted to clarify a few points you made: While we have developed our own materials for use in tutoring, we see our primary value add being our expert knowledge of the tests, the extensive training we offer tutors to help students develop test-taking skills, and our ability to coach our students to improve their approach to the tests. We’re first and foremost a tutoring company, not a materials producer. We do have our own proprietary materials that we’ve developed in-house, including full workbooks for the SAT and ACT as well as a set of our own practice tests (based on published SATs and ACTs). We always ask our students to take the AJ Tutoring practice tests first, only pivoting to published SATs and ACTs once students have completed all of our tests. We will check in with our tutors to make sure that expectations are clear and they’re primarily using the AJ tests. (And yes - every now and then a typo will show up, but we try to get those corrected asap. We’re very open to tutor feedback!) Part of our role here at AJ Tutoring is to shepherd families through the entire test prep process. A few times a year, we ask tutors to reach out to their families with students who are at a pivotal point in their high school career - often students in their junior year - to discuss testing plans and ensure that they have the support they need. Regardless of whether students actually do test prep with us, we want them to know their options for the SAT, ACT, and subject tests and to have a clear plan outlined. It’s true that this aspect of working at AJ Tutoring may not be for everyone, but we value partnering with our students and their families to reduce the stress associated with creating a testing plan. We’ve found that having proactive conversations is the best way to do that. Lastly - our busiest tutors make well above $20-30k/year. That typically requires the tutor to be willing to work at least one weekend day in addition to several weekday afternoons and evenings. I’m sorry the role wasn’t as consistent for you as you would have hoped. Thanks again for sharing your feedback, and best of luck in your future career!