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Job Seekers, Need Extra Income? Try Tutoring

Tis the post-season of goodwill, and what better way to help our fellow man than with the gift of knowledge? During the winter season many students and their parents will be looking for tutors to aid them in their studies for the coming year and the series of standardized tests which beckon. Tutoring provides an excellent opportunity for jobseekers to use their craft to help others, earn some extra income and maybe even initiate a new career.

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In the current economic climate there are many teachers who are fully qualified yet cannot find work. Tutoring during the winter can potentially alleviate this issue. If you are an unemployed teacher you can tutor during the winter whilst continuing to apply for other full time or part time employment. When searching for a tutor, students and their parents prefer certified teachers, which increase your chances of acquiring consistent employment. However, tutors with other forms of professional experience are also sought after. For example, if you have previous experience in fields such as nursing, business, finance, law, or can adeptly play a musical instrument, then tutoring could prove to be an industrious career prospect.

Tutoring offers a wide variety of choice when deciding who to tutor and in what subject. You can work independently by utilizing contacts from previous schools or jobs to promote your availability for tutoring. If this does not suit you then there are a multitude of test prep companies which employ tutors. They assign you to students in your area to help prepare them for standardized tests and professional certificate exams.

Moreover, there are several free online resources which can aid you in tutoring, especially if you have not tutored before. There are online forums you can frequent which enable you to discuss teaching techniques and syllabus changes with other tutors. There are also databases whereupon you can access and print off free worksheets to use during your tutoring sessions.

Tutoring offers you the liberty to work at times which are convenient for you; from an hour after school to several hours on weekends or during the holidays. You can work as often or as sporadically as you wish because there remains a consistent need for private tutoring for a range of ages of students and in a variety of subjects.

Tutoring can provide a lucrative income during the winter and can continue throughout the following year. Pay varies depending on the particular student, the subject for which they require tutoring and the duration for which they require to be taught. $10 to $25 per hour is the average wage, however, there is an ever increasing demand for specialists in math, sciences and foreign languages, and thus some tutoring sessions may result in you earning up to $65 an hour!

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Tutoring during the winter can provide a stable income, and provides you with an opportunity to teach a subject which interests you, which you can teach at your own pace. Moreover, if you enjoy tutoring, you can continue it throughout the year, particularly in the fall and spring when there is a high demand for tutoring college students in preparation for their SAT and ACT aptitude tests. Tutoring has the potential to develop from a winter past time into a promising career as you remain in contact with modern education and its ever developing syllabus.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

How to Get an Internship to Advance Your Career (PODCAST)

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Conde Naste is the corporation company that owns approximately 27 publications such as Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair that decided to end their internship programs. Many feared that would become a trend throughout the magazine industry.

My guest this week, Ashley Mosley (@ashmosley), Community Manager at InternMatch.com, spent some time with me to addressthe following issues. InternMatch.com is a leading website and community that promotes value driven internship programs that employers will fill their intern programs with value, and that participants will utilize the websites tools to present their best attributes. During our conversation, Ashley and I discuss the following:

1) She goes into further depth in describing the Conde Nast decision to terminate their internship program. I ask questions and her recommendations about establishing an internship and how to go about it.

2) Ashley offers advice to soon-to-be graduates in matching the desired experience with the right company. In addition, the prospect must to customize his or her résumé to what the company wants from an intern. She does emphasize that candidates need to remember that they are competing for positions.

3) Ashley also says that she does not recommend accepting an unpaid internship and lists the reasons why? Also listen for her answer on whether an unpaid internship still has value today. I was curious as what her thoughts were about an internship turning into a coffee grabbing, personal errand running service.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

Career Fulfillment and Your Brain (PODCAST)

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Josh Gibson, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His clinical work focuses on the neurobiology of relationships. Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, he was a senior consultant for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing for nearly five years in process re-engineering, organization development, and education design and delivery. He consulted to multiple Fortune 500 companies in the retail, financial services and healthcare industries and now works directly with executives regarding relationship issues in the workplace.

Dr. Gibson approached me to review Careers–A Brainwise Guide to Finding Fulfillment at Work as it would fit the this blog for job seekers. I was intrigued as what five psychiatrists would have to say about careers. The book is published through the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, a non-profit organization I found the book to give sound career advice with a good balance of how we think and what would should apply. It is also entertaining as the photos associated with each section had swig of mirth.

Here is an outline of our conversation:

Dr. Gibson shared how the project cam about and the goal with this offering this perspective
A significant section of the book I thought was about risk. In the book he said, “Fulfilled people seem to intuitively understand that “hap-piness” shares a common root with the words hap-less” and “hap-hazard.” Is there a difference between an unfulfilled person’s attitude toward his or her career versus a fulfilled person? He gave us specific examples of this.
I shared that in my coaching sessions with job seekers, I try to purge the desperation out of the search. I asked, “Perhaps defining where people are in life as far as fulfillment will tell me how far they go in finding a job?”
I asked, “Does our brain decide how much risk we can handle, or whether we are fulfilled enough to risk rejection, or the unknown?”
We talked about the connection with fulfillment and failure and whether it was necessary and why

If you wish to know more about Dr. Gibson’s work, you can contact him through http://www.careersthebook.com/ or http://www.joshgibsonmd.com/

Please, enjoy our conversation!