Profile description guidelines

All you need to know when writing your tutor profile.

Your tutor profile contains three written sections:

• Profile headline
• Profile description (About the tutor)
• Subject section

An engaging profile can really help you grab the attention of potential new students. Use this space to highlight your strengths and tell students what makes you a great tutor.

Your profile is your chance to be unique and really bring out your top tutor qualities. It helps you show students more about yourself and what you can offer them.

Here are some important questions to consider when creating your tutor profile:

• What are your qualifications, work experience, and skills that are relevant to teaching?
• What is your teaching style? What are your lessons like?
• Do you have a preferred teaching method?
• What activities and materials do you like to use during lessons?
• What do you specialize in? (E.g. Business Chinese, exam preparation, Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced)

Requirements for description

To pass our description approval process with ease, ensure your description follows the requirements below:

Do say your first name only.

Don’t mention your last name, for privacy reasons.

Do keep your personal information private.

Don’t include your contact details, students can easily reach out to you through Taketutor messages.

Don’t add any links to your personal websites or social media.

Do write as yourself in the first person.

Don’t write in the third person (E.g. “Simon is an experienced tutor”).

Do keep your content exclusive to yourself.

Don’t include reviews from previous students. These will show in your profile when you start teaching lessons.

Do keep your content engaging and true to yourself.

Don’t copy paste your content from your CV or repeat yourself throughout the description.

Do write your content in one language only.

Don’t write your description in multiple languages

Profile headline

Your profile headline is the first thing a student sees (after your name) in the search results. This means that it plays a major role in getting a student to click on your profile! So you should try to think of something unique, personalized and attention-grabbing to make it attractive for potential students.

Our data scientists have determined that headlines between 50 and 75 characters gain the most profile views! 

Ask yourself these questions when creating a catchy headline: 

1. What’s your main tutor quality/specialty? (E.g. Business Chinese, English for kids, etc.)
2. What’s your trust quality? (E.g. Years of experience, number of students taught, certifications, etc.)
3. What makes you different? 

Here are some other good and bad examples of headlines:

Good:

• IELTS preparation tutor. 7 years experience. Expert in teaching English pronunciation
• Experienced Chinese tutor – Take your Chinese fluency to the next level!
• Business English tutor with 5 years teaching experience and a business background
• Build your future: I will make you fluent in English with personalized lessons
• Certified tutor – majored in Teaching Chinese as a foreign language

Not good:

• English teacher
• Certified tutor
• Teacher Simon

Profile description (About the tutor)

Make your description as student-centered as possible, focusing on how you could help your potential students reach their learning goals.

Your description acts as the supporting message of your video. In your intro video, students get to know about your personality. In your description, they get to really understand how you can help them succeed. 

Your description should follow these guidelines:

• Include the qualities that make you a good tutor
• Explain your preferred teaching style and methods and what the student can expect
• Briefly mention your previous experience

Here are some more recommendations to make your description stand out even more:

• Include a warm greeting at the beginning and a strong call to action in the end (a call to action is a sentence that encourages someone to take an action, for example: Book your trial lesson with me and let’s improve your Chinese together)
• Be friendly and be yourself. These are students that will be choosing to spend many hours of their time with you, so they want someone that they can feel comfortable with
• Describe what makes you interesting as a person: your interests, hobbies, achievements (keep in mind that this should not be the main focus of your description)
• Split the text into paragraphs and use bullet points to make it easy to read
• Use standard capitalization and punctuation (not ALL CAPS).

Once you’ve written your description, double-check your spelling and grammar.

Subjects section

In the Subjects section, you can:

• Select the level of your target audience in “Student proficiency level”;
• Select the age of your target audience at “Preferred age group”;
• Select the subject areas that you are willing to teach;
• Write a short description of each subject area.

Subject area description recommendations:

• Write everything in the same language

Make sure everything you write is written in the language that you view the Taketutor website in.

• Don’t copy and paste information

Write a different description for each of your preferences so students know what qualifies you to teach this type of lesson.

• Ensure all information is relevant

Make sure your descriptions are relevant for your students and directly related to the preference you’ve selected.

• Don’t share contact information

Avoid all types of contact information in your preference descriptions – students will contact you on Taketutor.

• Upload certificate for exceptional education

You need to have uploaded a relevant certificate to add exceptional education (autism, ADHD, dyslexia) to your preferences. Upload your certificate or untick this preference.