Seeking MaxMSP / Jitter Tutors
New Media Training provides remote one-on-one software tutoring facilitated by Skype and screen sharing. We are seeking dedicated MaxMSP / Jitter tutors to work on a freelance basis. We offer a flexible work schedule, and compensation of $25/hr. Tutors must have a quiet, distraction-free environment from which lessons can be conducted. At the moment, we are only bringing onboard US Citizens.
Tutors will be required to tailor lessons to meet the needs of each student. This demands having the patience and ability to guide students who are new to the field and have never used MaxMSP before. It also requires advanced knowledge of MaxMSP, as some students will already know the program and will be looking for an efficient way to brush up on specific features.
We are looking for applicants with excellent communication skills. Prior experience as a teacher or tutor is a bonus. Students pay by the hour, so the ability to efficiently troubleshoot is important.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Mac: OSX 10.6 or later on an Intel-based machine.
PC: Windows 7, Vista, or XP with DirectX v9.0 or above.
The latest version of Flash Player.
Reliable, high-speed Internet service with an average upload speed of at least 2 Mbps. Please visit www.speedtest.net to perform a quick free test and pass along the results.
Please send a cover letter and a resume to jobs [at] newmediatraining.com. Let us know why you think you would be a good candidate for this position. Be sure to mention what operating system you are running, and let us know any other operating systems that you are comfortable with. If you are selected for an interview, you will be asked to conduct a mock lesson. We will be interviewing on evenings as well as during the day, so if you have a time preference feel free to let us know.
Thanks for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you!
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(You might want to double-check your links there)
they might also want to check their rates of pay
The links should be working now, thanks for the heads up! As for the pay rate, our company is just getting off the ground, and we are offering our service at an affordable price. Therefore , $25/hr is what we are able to afford to pay our tutors at this time.
I would recommend adjusting those rates based on experience. $25 is great for someone in college or thereabouts, but the value of that wage may greatly depend on where the tutor lives. Depends on who your target audience is, I suppose. I think it's a cool idea, fwiw.
Thanks for the input Peter!
apologies if I come across a little negative--I do think it is a good initiative, albeit possibly doomed to failure if you don't get the price-point/fee point right. maybe you could offer the option of having small group classes, ie 2 or 3 clients pay a little less than the $40/hr you charge, and then the tutor can get paid a little more. I know it's more difficult from an admin point of view, but it would probably come across as a more serious, less exploitative endeavour if done that way (not to mention you'd have a better quality pool of tutors). Also the almost 100% markup appears to me to be excessive-- maybe it could even be perceived by some as greedy
Also the almost 100% markup appears to me to be excessive– maybe it could even be perceived by some as greedy
I appreciate the feedback. In the end, an instructor makes $25 for a 1-hour lesson, and the company pockets about $13 after PayPal expenses are accounted for. Booking a lesson involves an initial consultation with the client, making sure that the client is appropriately configured for the lesson, lining up an instructor, sending email confirmations, invoicing, tracking payments, etc. The logistics involved with conducting this operation are surprisingly time consuming, not to mention that some inquiries never actually lead to a lesson. Since our instructors are freelancers that often have other gigs going on, there is no way at this point to have a more automated system in place. Hopefully this clarifies things a bit...
I've taught in music shops for close to 20 years, and a 60/40 split is not unusual. Those places generally have significant physical overhead (rent/instruments/payroll etc...)
Given that none of that applies, the split doesn't seem great.
But hey, if you get young guys with little teaching experience, go for it.
Another possibility would be to broaden your search and include non-US citizens. $25/hr is well above the wages of university lecturers or assistant professors of music in Central Europe. True, we usually don't speak English on a native level, but musicians here are quite great as well, which may compensate our difficulties with the language.
My 2 cents,
Ádám
25 per hour is insulting wherever you live in the world.
"The logistics involved with conducting this operation are surprisingly time consuming"
study audio, learn max, java, c++, gen.. and come back and tell me this again!
Rest the pension, taxes, health insurance etc, and you will see that your Tutor is working for 10 $ the hour.
Definition of a freelance musician:
Someone who puts £2000-worth of equipment into a £500 car then drives 100 miles to earn £50.
However, educators in UK academic institutions - at least I can speak from experience of the case in N. Ireland - do quite well, even at peripatetic/freelance/associate level.
But as a start-up, NMT appear to be erring on the side of JUST paying their own bills instead of attracting quality delivery.
Posting here is a good move, but not sure that there will be a deluge of applicants from the busier artists and engineers here.
Brendan