Spotlight Interview with Adam Caller: Founder and CEO of Tutors International, an elite private tutoring company
This week’s interview is with Mr. Adam Caller, international educational consultant, former teacher and private tuition specialist. Tutors International was founded in 1999 and is based in Oxford – a city renowned for academic excellence – but its client base is global. It is the world leader in the field of tailored private tuition for prestigious families. The company's remarkable reputation has been built on years of superlative standards and absolute discretion.
Mr Caller, what makes Tutors International different from other tutor placement companies?
When I founded the company, I was disappointed by the options that Clients and Tutors faced with regard to full-time provision of private tuition. My aim was to make Tutors International a world leader in custom-designed private education. Tutors International specializes in full-time residential private tuition for a clientele of elite, high-net-worth families. We are not merely a placement agency; we offer guidance and support in the achievement of academic goals, working with both Clients and their Tutors to ensure a world-class private education of the highest professional and academic standards.
Unlike almost all other tutoring companies, Tutors International conducts a customized global search for every Tutor, as per each individual Client’s specifications. This personalized service and attention to detail ensures that the private home tutor and the family are perfectly matched and that the ideal tutor is working in each placement.
We also provide an aftercare service, where an Account Manager is on hand to support clients and tutors for the duration of the contract period. Further, we are the only private tutoring company in the world offering this level of personalized service.
Unlike almost all other tutoring companies, Tutors International conducts a customized global search for every Tutor, as per each individual Client’s specifications. This personalized service and attention to detail ensures that the private home tutor and the family are perfectly matched and that the ideal tutor is working in each placement.
We also provide an aftercare service, where an Account Manager is on hand to support clients and tutors for the duration of the contract period. Further, we are the only private tutoring company in the world offering this level of personalized service.
Tell us about Tutor International’s unparalleled recruitment process and why you are so confident that you can find the perfect tutor for your Clients.
Whether Clients want a live-in tutor, a full-time educator to work alongside mainstream education, or a homeschool tutor able to incorporate extra-curricular expertise, Tutors International’s recruitment process will find the perfect fit for the student and their family. We want to make sure that we find the very best tutor for our clients, one who exceeds their expectations, and so our recruitment process is necessarily rigorous.
After getting to know the family, we then conduct a customized global search with the aim of finding a tutor who will meet your exact educational needs. We don’t select from an already existing database of tutors, instead, we will conduct a bespoke and thorough search, tailored to your needs. We will then prepare a detailed job specification and, in due course, compile a shortlist which is shared with the Client. Selected candidates are then put forward to interview with the family.
Questions for each job application form are written specifically for that job. Many of the questions are designed to challenge the applicant to think conceptually and imaginatively. This lets Tutors International identify the academically and pedagogically superior candidates.
The high standards that Tutors International and our esteemed clientele require from a tutor cannot be found overnight. We are dedicated to providing flexible and elite tutoring solutions to meet any specific requirements a family might have.
Once we have found the tutor who best suits your child’s educational requirements, we will sit down with you as a family to get to know you and will continue to work closely with you. This way we can ensure that your child will receive high-end home schooling and private tuition to suit your lifestyle.
After getting to know the family, we then conduct a customized global search with the aim of finding a tutor who will meet your exact educational needs. We don’t select from an already existing database of tutors, instead, we will conduct a bespoke and thorough search, tailored to your needs. We will then prepare a detailed job specification and, in due course, compile a shortlist which is shared with the Client. Selected candidates are then put forward to interview with the family.
Questions for each job application form are written specifically for that job. Many of the questions are designed to challenge the applicant to think conceptually and imaginatively. This lets Tutors International identify the academically and pedagogically superior candidates.
The high standards that Tutors International and our esteemed clientele require from a tutor cannot be found overnight. We are dedicated to providing flexible and elite tutoring solutions to meet any specific requirements a family might have.
Once we have found the tutor who best suits your child’s educational requirements, we will sit down with you as a family to get to know you and will continue to work closely with you. This way we can ensure that your child will receive high-end home schooling and private tuition to suit your lifestyle.
Is the service Tutors International provides discreet and confidential?
We have extensive experience working with ultra-high-net-worth clients and fully understand the need for discretion and confidentiality. All potential tutors sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. For additional security, we arrange professional background screening by Kroll FPR.
Tutors International prides itself on the professionalism and discretion of all our tutors. We take great pains to protect the privacy of our families, to the extent that we will exclude those we feel will not live up to the high standards we set as a company.
Tutors International prides itself on the professionalism and discretion of all our tutors. We take great pains to protect the privacy of our families, to the extent that we will exclude those we feel will not live up to the high standards we set as a company.
Do you provide tutors for children with learning difficulties or for those students identified as gifted and talented?
Absolutely. Some schools are just not equipped to identify SEN (special educational needs) beyond the most common instances, let alone implement an effective strategy to help the child overcome them.
We have found that more and more pupils are being taken out of school and seeking full-time home tuition because the schools are just not addressing their barriers to learning. Some of the time there’s an undiagnosed SEN, such as NLVD (Non-Verbal Learning Disability) or dyscalculia, which, once identified and addressed, leads to a much happier and productive education for the student.
Tutors International has many enquiries from ultra-high-net-worth parents of gifted and able children who are struggling within their educational setting. They are looking for a strengths-based education for their child where learning goes above and beyond working towards passing an exam and is instead, driven by their child’s curiosity and personal interests.
We have found that more and more pupils are being taken out of school and seeking full-time home tuition because the schools are just not addressing their barriers to learning. Some of the time there’s an undiagnosed SEN, such as NLVD (Non-Verbal Learning Disability) or dyscalculia, which, once identified and addressed, leads to a much happier and productive education for the student.
Tutors International has many enquiries from ultra-high-net-worth parents of gifted and able children who are struggling within their educational setting. They are looking for a strengths-based education for their child where learning goes above and beyond working towards passing an exam and is instead, driven by their child’s curiosity and personal interests.
And finally, what advice would you give to high-net-worth parents who are looking to employ a private tutor for their child?
My advice to parents who are considering private residential home tuition is to contact us now so that we have the time to design the very best personalized home-schooled learning program for your child.
We are happy to visit you, anywhere in the world, to discuss your children’s education. We can arrange for a consultant to meet you, at a time and place that fits with your schedule. We make no charge for our consultation, though for meetings overseas we may ask for reimbursement of travel expenses.
We are happy to visit you, anywhere in the world, to discuss your children’s education. We can arrange for a consultant to meet you, at a time and place that fits with your schedule. We make no charge for our consultation, though for meetings overseas we may ask for reimbursement of travel expenses.
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