Hello There,
This is Refonte Learning, an online school where learners pay to be taught, mentored, placed in jobs, and guided through their careers.
Somebody has to do the teaching, mentoring, placing, and guiding. That is the side of the platform this email is about.
Refonte pays people in five different roles.
You can join any of them directly if you already have the skill, or we train you into the role first if you don't. Both paths are open.
There is no eligibility filter: students, graduates, career-changers, working professionals, people from any country, people with 20 years of experience or zero- the platform is designed so that anyone can earn from at least one of the five roles.
Here are the five ways to earn on Refonte Learning:
- Course Provider: add your courses to Refonte's marketplace. Listing is free.
We help you sell them. When a student buys, you either train the student yourself or delegate the training to another Refonte mentor while keeping the sale credit.
Same marketplace model as Fiverr or Udemy: you set your price and keep your sales.
- Conseiller d'Orientation (Career-orientation Advisor): help incoming learners choose the right program, the right specialization, the right timing.
Paid per hour or per orientation session at a fixed price you agree with the platform. This role is structurally scarce; every learner needs it before they enroll, so demand tracks the entire platform's growth.
- Interim Tutor / Technical Mentor: teach live sessions, review assignments, run office hours, answer learner questions inside cohorts.
Paid per hour or per cohort. Fits people who are already practitioners (software, data, cloud, finance, medicine, design, marketing, languages, every domain we teach).
- Job Placement Mentor: help learners land their first offer once they finish the program: CV rewrites, mock interviews, referrals, portfolio reviews, application coaching.
Paid per coaching hour, same structure as the other mentors.
This is where former recruiters, HR professionals, and senior practitioners with a strong network fit naturally.
- Position: Maintaining Mentor: stay attached to the learner after they land the job.
Help them survive the probation period, get promoted, navigate their manager, and transition to the next role.
This is the long-relationship role; the mentor stays with the person across their whole career, and often across the careers of their children and grandchildren.
It is the most durable earning path on the platform.
How buyers choose their mentors, and why your profile matters:
During enrollment, every learner chooses 1 Principal mentor + 2 Secondary mentors by browsing mentor profiles on the platform.
Learners compare your bio, your portfolio, your specialization, the content you have published, and the reviews you have received.
This means every mentor has a direct incentive to keep their profile sharp, add content, add case studies, and stay active; the mentors whose profiles are strongest get chosen the most and get paid the most.
Earning potential: Your income depends on how many learners choose you, how active you are on the platform, and how well you maintain your profile.
Nothing is guaranteed; your earnings depend entirely on learner demand and your activity on the platform.
Income range: A realistic median for an actively maintained profile is a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month, comparable to Udemy, Upwork, and Fiverr, but with the added long-term earnings from role 5.
Nothing is guaranteed; your earnings depend entirely on how many learners choose you.
Two ways to enter:
- Direct entry: if you already have the skills (any of the five roles), you sign up, complete your profile, and start being visible to learners immediately. No training required.
- Trained-first entry: if you don't yet have the skills for the role you want, Refonte trains you into it before you start. Small cohorts (~50 people at a time) are trained directly by our founding team; graduates then train the next cohort, who train the next, and so on.
This is how we scale from 10 trainees to 100, to 1,000, without losing quality.
How to apply: pick the role you want, send us an email with that role in the subject line, and we will get back to you within 48 hours:
- Course Provider → contact@refontelearning.com
- Conseiller d'Orientation → contact@refontelearning.com
- Interim Tutor / Technical Mentor → contact@refontelearning.com
- Job Placement Mentor → contact@refontelearning.com
- Position Maintaining Mentor → contact@refontelearning.com
Not sure which role fits you? Send us an email at contact@refontelearning.com with the subject "Not sure which role" and one line about your background. We will suggest the best fit and whether direct or trained-first entry makes more sense for you.
Learn more about Refonte Learning: www.refontelearning.com
James Wickett: Cyber Security & DevSecOps Lead Engineer
