Work From Home Tutoring For Reasoning Mind

Reasoning Mind is a company that hire home-based tutors. They are a non-profit organization that has been in existence since 2000. Reasoning Mind partners with all kinds of schools nationwide, including inner city, suburban, private, and magnet schools. One of their primary focuses is to help students from economically disadvantaged communities.
Reasoning Mind allows their tutors to work from anywhere in the world, but you must have authorization to work in the US no matter where you are located.

Are you qualified to become a home-based tutor for Reasoning Mind?

You do not have to have previous tutoring or teaching experience to be considered for the tutoring position through Reasoning Mind although it’s a plus if you have that. You must be internet savvy and either a college student, recent college graduate, or a mid-career professional. A good knowledge of middle school level math is necessary and it’s even better if you have knowledge of high school level math. However, I notice that the job description states you are primarily tutoring 2nd through 6th grade students.

How much does Reasoning Mind pay their tutors?

I couldn’t find this info to start, but I emailed to ask and from the info I was given, it may depend on the time of year. In the fall of this year, tutors will be paid $15 an hour, but currently the rate is $11 an hour.

What is the schedule like?

It sounds like scheduling is pretty flexible. You must commit to a minimum of ten hours per week, and the tutoring times are during your typical school hours — currently between 8 am and 4 pm (CST), Monday through Friday. If you’ve got kids in school, it should be really easy to work this job around them. When you apply, you are asked to let Reasoning Mind know your availability during those hours, so you’re mostly in control of the specific hours you work.

What are the technical requirements?

This is not one of those jobs with a long list of specific equipment and computer specs you need. The ONLY thing I see listed as a requirement is a broadband internet connection for your computer.

What is the application process?

You apply via the “Apply Now” button on their website and through that you can submit your cover letter, resume, and contact information. If Reasoning Mind feels you might be a good fit, they will respond with some written assessments you’ll need to complete. If you do well on these, you will get a phone interview.
I’ve been doing some digging around the forums to find out more about this company, and it looks like if they are not interested, they will eventually send you a rejection email. So this may not be one of those companies that just leaves you hanging and never lets you know one way or the other if you got the job.

What is the feedback?

I can’t find anyone from the forums who has been hired for this or the other student mentor position Reasoning Mind occasionally advertises for, but as I mentioned above, there are a couple of reviews at Glassdoor. You can read those here, but I think you may need to be signed up there to read what they say. But just to sum up, the reviews are OK. People praised the pay, the hours, and the flexibility as well as the online interface you use to do the tutoring. Some cons mentioned were low pay, limited hours, and the fact that it may not be a long-term job.

Want to apply?

You can go here to apply at Reasoning Mind as a tutor. I would love to hear your feedback if you’ve ever worked there or attempted the application process for this position.
Looking for more work from home opportunities in the education field? Check out my big list of companies that hire here.

Freelance Transcription for Rev

Rev is a company I’ve come across a few times on the forums that regularly hires freelance transcribers and also translators. They are based out of San Francisco, CA, and it appears that they are open to hiring freelancers worldwide. It looks like the transcription you do for them is general, not medical.

Do you need experience?

They specifically state they are looking for skilled transcribers. However, the application page doesn’t ask how much experience you have and instead just requests you provide two transcription samples. If you can do well on your samples, you may have a shot at getting in regardless of how much experience you have.

Phone Work From Home at Windy City Call Center – IL or IN

One company that is often hiring home-based virtual call center reps is Windy City Call Center. I usually find their job leads posted when I search the Chicago-area Craigslist jobs page. As you might have guessed, you can’t really work for this company unless you are a resident of Illinois or Indiana due to the onsite training that is required prior to working from home. Prior outbound call center experience is preferred, but not required.
If you are in Illinois or Indiana and you’re looking for a work from home phone job, you might be curious about this company. I did the research today and have lots of info to share with you.

 

SpinGo Event Content Specialist – Non Phone Job From Home

I came across an interesting non-phone job lead the other day for a company called SpinGo that I thought I would share some information on since so many of you are looking for non-phone. The position is called “Event Content Specialist” and basically what you are doing is finding events in your area and then entering them into SpinGo’s database of events.
This is a US only, independent contractor position.

Work From Home Bookkeeping at Balance Your Books

Balance Your Books is a company that I often see with job postings for work from home bookkeepers. I have had a few people ask me about work from home bookkeeping positions, and actually there are quite a few opportunities out there. But today’s overview is just going to focus on Balance Your Books. The company is based out of New Jersey, but they have clients nationwide. According to their BBB listing, the company has been in business since 1999.
This opportunity is for US residents only.

Work at Home Virtual Assisting For SuperHuman

SuperHuman is a newer company that I first learned about earlier in the summer. They hire virtual assistants to work at home and add, edit, and delete events from their customers’ schedules. They call this “calendaring” because basically you are just updating the virtual calendars for their clients.
As you might have guessed this is another non-phone position, and it also appears to be open to US only at this time.

Working From Home as a General Transcriber

Over the past three years, I’ve touched on transcription in the form of company reviews and a list of sites that hire. I’ve never really gone into a lot of detail about what transcription is and how to get started. This post is meant to be a basic overview of general transcription.
In the coming months, you may see more of these overviews of various work from home career fields.

What is general transcription?

As you may or may not know, transcription is basically listening to an audio file and typing out what you hear. It is usually much easier to get started doing general transcription than it is medical transcription because medical requires experience and/or certification before most companies will hire you. When you do general transcription, you might be listening to personal conversations, business meetings, court hearings, college lectures, and any number of other audio files.