Education
Tutors
Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.
- Sector: Education
- Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
- O*NET code: 25-3041.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Training and Teaching Others
central to the job — rated 93/100 for importance.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
central to the job — rated 89/100 for importance.
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Coaching and Developing Others
central to the job — rated 87/100 for importance.
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Making Decisions and Solving Problems
a major part of the work — rated 80/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 79/100 for importance.
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Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
a major part of the work — rated 78/100 for importance.
Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Instructing
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Learning Strategies
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a high level (72/100), and rated 88/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a high level (70/100), and rated 81/100 for importance.
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Education and Training
Needed at a high level (68/100), and rated 79/100 for importance.
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Mathematics
Needed at a high level (66/100), and rated 68/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Expression
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
Experience
One to two years of related experience is typical.
Training
Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.
What it pays
These are typical education compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Tutors specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Top University Admin
$90k – $180k
Public School Districts
$55k – $85k
Charter & Private Schools
$45k – $75k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- You are in front of the public, so the job is partly performance.From “Performing for or Working Directly with the Public”
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
- There is real room to invent — the answer is not in a manual.From “Thinking Creatively”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Tutors. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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See your fit for Tutors
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