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How to describe experience in a resume correctly?

Is this worth putting on my resume?

  • I'm currently a freshman in college, and I tutor a political refugee in English. Since we live in separate parts of the country, it's mostly done through email and fb messages. Under work experience for my resume, can I say that I help him learn English, even though the process is pretty formal and it's more just more of a way to help him as a friend? Even though I don't want him to pay me, he still wants to, so I charge him a very small amount (think $7-8/hr). Could I describe this as self employment? If this matters, I mainly mentor this refugee through papers he has to write, and then I give him vocabulary lessons through email him messages I send to him. I also show him the best grammatical way to express certain thoughts. Since he has a basic understanding of English, I help him understand more complex words/thoughts by expressing them in very simple English.

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    LOL: Man, I'd write that up in such a way on the resume that makes it sound like you taught a whole village in Africa to sing! Would be great if you could list him as a reference, too. That never hurts, when finding employment. My point is I'd craft a couple sentences, minimum, that are high-impact describing the nature of your tutoring, emphasizing the challenges and outcomes. It can't hurt your prospects.

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LOL: Man, I'd write that up in such a way on the resume that makes it sound like you taught a whole village in Africa to sing! Would be great if you could list him as a reference, too. That never hurts, when finding employment. My point is I'd craft a couple sentences, minimum, that are high-impact describing the nature of your tutoring, emphasizing the challenges and outcomes. It can't hurt your prospects.

Blondeba...

I would definitely put this down as work experience, but I don't think it would represent what you are actually doing by classifying it as "self-employment."

Aaron

That would be great for you to put on your resume. Turn everything you said into a few bullet points and try to give quantifiable results (i.e. how much his grades improved after having you tutor him).

Ryan

That would be great for you to put on your resume. Turn everything you said into a few bullet points and try to give quantifiable results (i.e. how much his grades improved after having you tutor him).

I would definitely put this down as work experience, but I don't think it would represent what you are actually doing by classifying it as "self-employment."

Aaron

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