College Zoom is the #1 ranked college admissions counseling service in Los Angeles on Yelp. We help students uniquely develop compelling college applications that change the way that they see themselves and compel admissions officers to recognize their value. No admissions experience is necessary; we developed a unique practicum curriculum and can teach you our methodology. 

Now, we are looking for seasonal tutors who can assist college applicants one-on-one with their college essays or activity summaries. This entails helping students identify the best windows into their lives and assisting them in seeing new angles to those stories and experiences. Each meeting ranges from 45 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes at a time via Google Meet. 

Time Commitment:

Students typically prefer meeting times from 3-8pm weeknights and are flexible on the weekends. Tutors are expected to offer 15 hours of flexible scheduling availability per week during peak season to support consistent student progress. Compensation will be based on actual tutoring hours conducted, not your available hours. However, the more consistent availability you have, the more students we can assign to you. When students aren’t able to meet with you every 3-4 days, they frequently request to switch with another counselor to avoid delaying their progress.

• On-Season: June through December
  During the on-season, the demand comes in like a bell curve. It slowly starts in June, and in the summer, you may have 3 to 5 students a week (about 4 to 8 cumulative tutoring hours). Then, the season starts getting noticeably busier in September, when you may be meeting with 6 to 10 students a week (or 9 to 20 hours a week). Our season peaks in October and November as students get closer to Early Application deadlines.

• Off-Season: January through May
  During this slow period, there may be no students. If there are any students, it’ll likely be maybe 1 or 2 students every few weeks (at most). Hence, we utilize this time to conduct our hiring cycle, onboard, and begin training new hires. 

Compensation:

Our proprietary system requires even experienced writers to learn a new, strategic writing framework. Two different pay scales apply when you’re in training vs once you’ve graduated from training.

• Probationary training period:
  • $19/hour initial training period without live clients present (mostly offline work, mock sessions, and shadowing a veteran counselor).  
  • $24/hour for training involving live clients where you're co-leading at least half of the meeting with a veteran counselor.  
  • $30/hour for graduating and being able to fully lead a live client meeting (with a veteran counselor not needing to intervene).

• Raise structure once you can work solo:
  • $31/hr after your first 25 solo tutoring hours 
  • Then, a $1/hr raise for every 50 solo tutoring hours worked up to $40/hr
  • Then, a $1/hr raise for every 75 solo tutoring hours worked up to $60/hr
  • Then, a $1/hr raise for every 100 solo tutoring hours worked up to $100/hr

Tutors are trained across multiple meeting types. Compensation increases as competency is demonstrated. It is possible to earn full pay in one meeting category while still training in another.

Because the first season includes significant training investment, candidates who anticipate remaining with College Zoom for at least two additional seasons are strongly preferred.

Interview Process:

We have a two-stage interview. Stage 1 is a 1 hour partner exercise where you’ll be paired with another candidate and you’ll each be asked to improve each other’s resume and cover letter. What each of you are evaluated on is not the quality of your own resumes and cover letters. Instead, you’re solely evaluated on your ability to elevate and improve the quality of another’s work product. You are not competing against each other. You’re being measured against the tutoring standards of College Zoom. Ultimately, you may both be hired!  

Candidates who pass stage 1 will be invited to a traditional Q&A style interview which takes approximately 50 minutes.  

Residency: College Zoom prefers to hire residents of California, Washington, Arizona, and Texas. Those are the states where we satisfy existing requirements for workers compensation coverage and state-specific payroll tax withholding processes. We are open to considering residents of other states but still prefer employees in the Pacific, Mountain, or Central Time Zones where most of our students are. All employees must be U.S. citizens.