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[AdrianG4]

I'm trying to pretty up my resume with the recent happenings in my life and I'd like to know what's the best way to add my private classes on there. For example, what would I put for company ? Do I add the students as contacts ? Etc.

thank you

[Glenski]

Call it freelance tutoring/teaching.
Unless you have had an actual school of your own, I wouldn't list any students as contacts.

[GambateBingBangBOOM]

I agree with Glenski.

Also, if you have two different kinds of private lessons- those to individual students (who pay in cash- sort or informal) and those at a specific (non-language school) company (sometimes people will go to a car company, for example, and teach managers in a class) once or twice a week, then list that as a separate, part-time job (especially if it took place for more than a year)

-English language teacher KAR-uma Corp., Japan. Part-time, 2008-2010
-freelance private English language teacher, Japan. Part-time, 2006-2010

[Glenski]

Be careful, too. Some schools don't even want you to teach on the side (despite it being none of their business), and if they see you have a record of it while you held another job, they might balk at hiring you.

[AdrianG4]

Ah, ok. I'm not working anywhere else (as far as teaching English is concerned,) so I'll go ahead and list the private classes. Thanks, ya'll !

[mozzar]

Would it be best to just lump the experience all together under the one company, e.g. the private lessons I've done preparing people for the TOEFLibt alongside my company's business English classes?

[Glenski]

mozzar,
If your private lessons came from that company, sure. Most people tend to think of private lessons as freelance work, stemming from no employer.

[Tainan]

For most of my career, the first item on my resume (or the last, depending on whether I do the resume chronologically or reverse-chronologically), has read something like this:

1995-1998 Taught English free-lance in Seoul, South Korea. Taught all ages and levels etc. etc. etc.

I actually worked legitimately for a company during the first nine months of that period, but the name is the company was so ridiculous that I think my resume looks better without having that name on it. Also, I don't want to crowd my resume with every little thing I've done for the past 15 years, and at this point I doubt very highly that anyone cares much what I was doing in 1996!

As for listing students as contacts, what else could I do? When I came back to New York in the late Spring of 1998, I applied for jobs teaching English, and of course the schools where I applied all wanted references. The only conceivable options were people I'd been giving private lessons to during the past year and a half. I had taught groups of businessmen in Seoul and I gave their contact information to these schools, and the schools emailed them--I couldn't have gotten a job otherwise!

[naturegirl321]

I put, "various institutes" on my Cv and lumped privates under there. Simply because Korea frowns upon that. FYI, I taught privates in Peru.