GMAT Tutoring Careers

Interested in working with us? Here’s what you’d be getting yourself into:

• We’ll train you to be one of the very best GMAT/GRE/EA tutors in the industry. Large test-prep companies tend to teach a narrow curriculum, and they like to “script” their teachers. We want you to be yourself, and develop your own awesome style. In other words, we’ll work hard to help you become the best possible version of yourself, with an incredibly broad toolkit as a teacher and mentor.
• You’ll get to work with a handful of the world’s most brilliant stand-up comedians. OK, maybe not. Fine: definitely not. But we’re fun, nice people who try to keep things interesting.
• The lifestyle of a GMAT/GRE/EA tutor is pretty great: you’d have a flexible schedule, and with very rare exceptions, all of our sessions are conducted online. So if you’re a traveler or a filmmaker or a novelist or a food blogger or something, tutoring can be an amazing way to support your other passions.
• Because many of our students switch from one test to another during their studies, all of our tutors become experts in every facet of all of the exams that we teach.
• The pay isn’t bad, either: if you’re successful, you’ll ultimately earn more than tutors at any large test-prep company. You can expect to earn a minimum of $120/hr. for time spent tutoring with us.

We’d love to tell prospective students that we’ve found the magic bullet that will guarantee 200-point score improvements in just a few weeks. Our jobs as tutors would be easier if we could just lob some formulas and “tricks” at our students, collect a fat paycheck, and walk away.

Unfortunately, exams like the GMAT and GRE simply don’t work that way. The GMAT in particular is a pain in the butt that covers a wide range of concepts, tested in all sorts of subtle and unexpected ways. That’s why GMAC data shows that repeat test-takers typically experience disturbingly small score improvements.

For most of our students, the problem isn’t their knowledge of basic math or grammar: the challenge is that they need to develop better habits of mind, stronger reasoning skills, and more disciplined approaches to test-taking. None of those things are easy or straightforward – and that’s exactly what makes our jobs challenging and interesting.

We’ve always gone out of our way to be 100% honest about the fact that it can be really, really hard to improve on the GMAT. We tell our students that hiring a GMAT tutor is like hiring a personal trainer: if you want your GMAT brain to become big and buff, you’ll have to pump some serious (quantitative and verbal) iron outside of our tutoring sessions. 

Because we’ve always contradicted the test-prep industry’s rosy marketing messages, we tend to attract desperate, determined students facing unique struggles. Our recent students include a test-taker who worked with three pricey tutors before contacting us, a Canadian consultant who had completed every GMAT Official Guide question six or seven times, and a British fellow who had taken four different prep courses during his six previous attempts at the exam.

Our students typically “know enough stuff” to do well, but there’s generally something more subtle – often behavioral or psychological – that holds them back. 

So we pride ourselves on our ability to figure out those subtle little things that have prevented our students from achieving their GMAT goals in the past, and we’re great at finding creative, customized ways to solve those problems. 

We certainly don’t always succeed, but we always build close, collaborative relationships with our students. Nearly all of them walk away happy with the process, knowing that they’ve done everything humanly possible to achieve their goals. And of course, we frequently do succeed in raising our students’ GMAT, GRE, and EA scores, even for students who failed to break through after hundreds of hours of work at other test-prep companies.

We tell our students that there are no shortcuts to becoming a great GMAT or GRE test-taker, and the same is true of becoming a great tutor. Plenty of teachers are skilled at explaining formulaic math or grammar concepts, but the real challenge is changing our students’ mindsets and habits in the subtle ways that are necessary for a breakthrough on the GMAT.

We’re a tiny company, but we have a strong culture of support, communication, and mentorship. We meet regularly to discuss our students, with the goal of brainstorming better ways to teach certain concepts and deepening our understanding of our students’ struggles. Two of our most grizzled tutors have taught GRE and GMAT students for well over 20 years, and we’re still learning and improving after all of this time – and that’s exactly what keeps our work enjoyable and lively.

Teaching brilliance required; GMAT experience optional

Do you love teaching? Do you enjoy crushing standardized tests, even if you’re embarrassed to admit it to your friends? If so, let’s talk!

If you decide to become a GMAT/GRE/EA tutor with us, we’ll make sure that you have the skills, flexibility, and support to be among of the top 10 or 20 tutors in the industry from day one. And then we’ll make sure that you keep getting better, and that we find ways to keep you challenged and engaged over time.

We’re looking for committed educators who want to learn and grow with us. We’ll invest heavily in making you great, but greatness takes time, and this partnership will only make sense if you can see yourself working with us full-time for at least four years.

Friendly warning: because we take the quality of our teaching so seriously, our hiring process isn’t exactly short. We’ll run you through a series of auditions, including a writing task and several live teaching sessions with actual students. We’ll offer plenty of feedback throughout the process, as well as tons of opportunities to get to know us better along the way.

In other words, we’re patient and thorough with our audition and interview process, and our hiring decisions are never made hastily or quickly.

We don’t have an immediate need for more tutors at the moment, but we’re always thrilled to meet interested and interesting tutors who want to join our team. If you’re a potential fit for a future opening, that’s wonderful — sometimes, openings pop up sooner than we expect.

So if you’d like to get on our radar screen for future openings, please don’t hesitate to apply. Please be aware that we receive an enormous volume of applications, and we are not generally able to respond to every applicant personally.