FACING a tight job market, an increasing number of college graduates in Shenzhen are choosing to carve out a career in full-time tutoring and some lucky ones earn a decent salary.
Four college graduates who studied at prestigious universities were scheduled to attend a job interview Thursday afternoon to compete for a full-time tutoring position with an annual salary of about 100,000 yuan (US$14,644), the Southern Metropolis Daily reported Thursday.
The employer — who was not identified — and his friend, Zhou, planned to talk to the four candidates in his multimillion-yuan villa near Mission Hills in Guanlan, Bao’an District, the report said.
The factory owner was looking for a full-time tutor, ideally a male, for his son who is in second-year middle school.
Zhou posted an online advertisement in the well-known Tianya online community earlier this month, saying he was looking for a full-time tutor for his friend’s son. Applicants were required to be graduates of prominent universities and to have mastered effective learning and teaching methods, the advertisement said. Once employed, the tutor would be required to move in with the family.
In addition to teaching Chinese, English, math and physics, the tutor would have to accompany the child to school and pick him up after school each day.
The monthly salary for the tutor would start from 7,000 yuan, rising to 8,000 yuan or even more if the tutor helps the child become one of the top 40 students of his school, Zhou said. The child is presently ranked 140th in his school.
“Money won’t be a problem as long as you can help the child progress in his studies and, if the tutor does a really good job, my friend can save a position as department manager in his company for (the tutor),” Zhou said.
The employer planned to send his son to study overseas after he graduated from high school and was hoping to find a high quality talent to influence his child in an all-round good way, Zhou said.
More college graduates were becoming full-time tutors this year and the wages for tutoring had also been rising, said an employee surnamed He with Shenzhen Bo’ao Education, a company that offers tutoring services.
“Sometimes the wage can reach as high as 200 yuan per hour,” said He. Bo’ao Education had employed more than 4,000 full-time and part-time tutors in the past five years and tutoring services companies on the same scale as Bo’ao abound in Shenzhen.
Before schools reopened earlier this month, the Ministry of Education reinforced a ban on schools giving extra classes and this had partly fueled the tutoring business, the report said. (Liu Minxia)