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Old 12-19-2006, 04:37 PM
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Default New business idea need your help.

I have just started a Job training and placement business in Sydney Australian.(I am doing it part time while full time working as IT manager)

This business mainly is designed to address the job issues facing by oversea students. Many of them went though university and spend a lot of money, but after 2, 3 years hard study, can't find a job. (Mainly in IT and Accounting). As result of that, those young fellows have to work as kitchen hand & cleaners within their community. Their talent are basically wasted and they will never be able to integrate into the main stream society.

To address this issue, I have setup a job training business. I am just testing at this moment, It comprises 4 modules:
Module 1: business skill training (Quicken in bookkeeping; MCP in IT);
Module 2: Working experience arrangement; (unpaid working experience)
Module 3: Job hunting skill training (resume, interview etc)
Module 4: Job club (weekly job hunting support)

At moment, I mainly try focus on helping student with accounting background. Once this module is test successfully then I can move to help students from other area such as IT, marketing,

I have started it for three month now, I don’t have much problem to get students, my main challenge is to get the accounting firms to provide students with unpaid voluntary jobs. I have tried hard calling, faxing ect, the result is not very promising, due to the fact that I am full time working. I am thinking about getting a sales person on board to help me mainly focus on deal with accounting firm and get more host companies for voluntary positions. As I just started, I can’t afford to employ a full time sales person. Probably part time, two days a week.

My questions are:
 What is your opinion about this business idea?
 Is any one here having some idea about introducing a volunteer to accounting firms?
 What is the reasonable package I should prepare for the sales person?
 Where is the best place to find those experienced sales rep?

Thanks in advance.
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