Flexible Arrangements, Favourable Fee Structure - Private Tutor First Tutors Employee Review

5.0
18 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It's less like a standard tutoring platform and more like a tutoring recruitment and verification agency — it doesn't ask that students and tutors conduct lessons only through the platform, but instead lets them make their own arrangements (whether in-person or online), and it also doesn't charge commission fees on lessons, but instead only a one-time 'finder's fee' once a student has talked to and decided on a particular tutor (intended to cover basic operational costs such as verification of the tutor's academic transcripts, their lack of a criminal record etc.). This all makes it much, much more flexible than most tutoring platforms, ensuring that tutors and students can make the arrangements that make most sense for them, and much more favourable for tutors, who generally end up getting paid reasonable rates rather than having most of what they charge go to the platform simply for allowing a student to get in touch with them. Understandably, this all means that the platform offers less oversight and support in all of the day-to-day arrangements, so that tutors have to be more diligent in ensuring all aspects of the tutoring arrangement are followed exactly as agreed (that is, ensuring upfront payments from students to avoid either not being paid or being cancelled on at the last minute, communicating their policies clearly etc.), but this is absolutely worth it for the flexibility and fee structure.

Cons

The platform is less well known than others, so there are fewer tutoring requests that come through it, although the ones that do tend to be much more favourable than on most other platforms in the UK, in my experience making up for the difference once a tutor has managed to accumulate enough positive reviews to turn a decent proportion of inquiries into bookings (probably about 10+). I used to tutor through a couple of different platforms (most of the larger ones in the UK, including a couple specific to Oxbridge), but once I accumulated enough reviews, ended up shifting entirely to First Tutors, and have managed to continue getting work through them quite reliably on a part-time basis, so that it can fit around my own continued full-time education (about 20 hours a week, beginning at £65/hour, during term-time).

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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