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Bernie Jacobsen _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Lebedeff Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Expat List Seeking English tutor(s) for private work I'm looking for 1-3 (depending on time availability) native-speaker tutors for providing English language lessons to financially secure clients. The clients have various needs, so here's a brief description: * One client is a 13-year old boy with Intermediate verbal skills, and Lower-Intermediate writing ability. His parents will be sending him to Anglo-American school next year, and want him to raise his skills before September. They require a tutor with a strict methodological approach, who will assign homework and check progress in an accountable manner. Curriculum is tutor's-choice, and will be paid for, but must exist. Rate: 1000 rubles/hour, near Prospekt Mira, evenings. Tutor needs Basic Russian skills to explain progress to the Mom. (Great job for a visiting grad student with good org skills.) * Another client is a woman who runs a small chain of restaurants. She's very energetic and personable, and wants to improve her English both for business reasons and for self-improvement. Her English skills are Basic, but not "zero." Curriculum is totally up to the tutor, and can be discussed. Rate: 1000-1500 rubles/hour, at quiet cafe locations in the city center, and may include free vegetarian (yeah, I know...) food. Times are flexible. Tutor's Russian can be rudimentary. * Additionally, there's a high-level manager in a large Russian firm, whose top-manager boss just started learning English and made a "strong implication" that it's a "good idea," so y'all understand the motivation here. Client's level is close to Beginner, at best. A strong, formal curriculum is required, and will be paid for. Rate: 1500 rubles/hour, in an office location, mornings. May grow to group lessons, with appropriate pay increase of course. Opportunity to become "feeder" for prestigious London-based Intermediate Russian skills in a tutor would be ideal. All lessons are two hours each, and before you ask me silly stuff like "is that actual time or academic?," it's like this: the tutor shows up, and leaves around two hours later. How a tutor wants to take breaks within those two hours is up to him or her and the client. Finally, I won't take even one kopeck for hooking up a tutor with a client -- all the cash is the tutor's, and after the initial negotiations (which I'll assist with), all further negotiations are up to the tutor. Fine, if the tutor wants to buy me a drink, that's always good. What's the catch? All of these clients approached me because of my reputation, and in this economy, a consultant's reputation is his bread and butter. Therefore, I require a personal interview with any applicant before moving forward. Skype interviews are an option, depending on experience. If interested, please contact me off-list at [email protected]. Applicants don't have to bother with resumes, just send me a decent description of what you've done (or think you can do). Diplomas are cool, professional experience is cool, but teaching certificates don't mean jack in this biz, sorry. Also, American vs. Queen's English is equally irrelevant -- sure, although many of you UK folks do speak more clearly, you also spell things funny. :)
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