Finding a job as a tutor can be easy if you know where to look. If you have already decided that tutoring is the right thing for you, then you just need a few simple steps to finding your first tutoring job.

First, identify in yourself what your strengths and skills are. Do you have the passion and patience to teach someone else? Are you interested in building relationships? Are you willing to invest time and work into planning and preparing necessary study materials? What subjects will be the best fit for you to tutor? Would you like to tutor someone in a skill or craft? Sports are also popular tutoring subjects.

Second, are you able to effectively transfer your skills and knowledge to another person? Are you an effective confidence-booster? Are you comfortable in spending the time required to refresh your own skills and knowledge base to increase your level of tutoring? Are you able to access tutoring resources if they are necessary?Are you confident in selling yourself as a tutor in order to find clients?

Third, are you interested in working for yourself or for someone else? Tutoring can be a very viable source of self-employment. You can keep your overhead costs to little or nothing. If you don't enjoy doing your own advertising or collecting your pay from your clients yourself, you may want to consider going through an agency, which will handle all of that for you. You can apply to a local agency or an online tutoring agency. Be sure to know what you are signing before you sign a contract, and be sure that the terms of service are easy to follow and clear in your mind before you commit.

Tutoring is different from teaching in several key areas, and similar to teaching overall. A teacher teaches to a group, and therefore her lessons are designed for a group. A tutor designs his lessons for the individual needs of one person. A tutor also keeps the learning style of the student in mind. Some students are visual learners; some tactile and some auditory. A teacher teaches a chunk of material in a certain time frame whereas a tutor usually focuses on the one area the student is struggling. Thus, the tutor must be prepared to go into detail, and also reiterate the same material in several different formats until he finds the one the student can understand.

Tutoring gives you a high level of personal satisfaction. You enjoy your job; it is something you chose to do rather than something someone hired you to do. You also are paid well while helping someone else succeed.