Teaching someone to drive successfully can be extremely satisfying, as you’d know if you’ve ever experienced it with a family member before. But have you ever considered it as a career? With such a recent high demand for driving lessons, and the many benefits that come with it, it’s clear to see why becoming a driving instructor is so popular. If you’re considering taking the next step in your career, here are some of the advantages that you can experience as a result of training to be a driving instructor!
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Impart your knowledge onto others
If you’ve had a career in education, or worked with others in Human Resources, for example, then you may already have many transferable skills for driving instructing, and the experience of training others.
This can be helpful in your next career move because the main element of being a driving instructor, and its top benefit, is the opportunity to teach others. It’s a job role like no other, where you can help someone to learn a valuable life skill, and be a key part of their success in fulfilling their optimum potential.
Not only that, but it can be highly rewarding seeing others succeed from your teaching, as you help them to pass their test and set them on a path to becoming a confident driver. Essentially, the job itself is its own reward.
Expand your skillset
Of course, like any other change in career, there is some training involved in order to become a fully qualified driving instructor. You will be required to complete a course, and several tests, but you should look upon this as a chance to learn and grow as an individual, as well as expand your range of skills.
Through this training, and in further years of your career as a driving instructor, you can:
- Improve your ability to work independently
- Develop your leadership and verbal communication skills
- Utilise your patience and ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- Expand your knowledge of teaching and planning
- Keep up to date with new laws and procedures
With this new role or step in your career, you can be rewarded in the knowledge that you using your skills to the best of their abilities, and will always have the opportunity to learn new things.
Job satisfaction
Being a driving instructor can be more satisfying than any other job, as it offers you a lot more flexibility, earning potential, and the chance to be your own boss. The joy of teaching driving is that you can book lessons that fit to your lifestyle, working as little or often as you like. You can be happy in the knowledge that you get to create your own balance between your lifestyle and work.
This also means that you could have the earning potential of between £30,000 – £40,000 per year, depending on how many lessons you have in your schedule or the level of students you have. As aforementioned, the demand for driving instructors is high at the moment, and so you can take full advantage of the increase in learner drivers eager to get behind the wheel.
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