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.

It is widely known in Australia that people who arrive from overseas, but particularly from Asia have poor skills despite the fact that many have degrees from universities.

The Australian federal government has been attempting to address this issue for many years now spending millions on the problem.

Finding employment for such people, even though they have passed through additional training is near impossible.

I have seen many so-called (usually Asian) IT people and electronics engineers, systems engineers and indeed electrical engineers and more who have little in the way of skills.

They are unemployable in their chosen field and I personally would consider a business centred around supplying them with skills and eventually attempting to obtain jobs for them to be a loss-making enterprise.

The usual complaint they offer that they cannot get employment is "racial discrimination" and they bleat that the Australians will not employ them because of this.

The truth is far different.

Australian employers (and I have been an employer many times) will not hire a foreign trained engineer for $80,000 when they produce little work of value.

Forged resumes from those people is another problem and I have seen forged engineering and IT degrees printed using the linotype printing method (1950's printing method) on home-made paper!!

I even encountered one Chinese engineer who had THREE forged engineering degrees. One simple question usually fells them, for example, what is Kirchoff's voltage law?

I met another woman in interview (an Indian) who also claimed THREE degrees, one was from HARVARD!! She was simple to fell - I asked her what a MOSFET was...

I've met a few of them now and I'm no longer surprised they turn up with multiple degrees and the most fantastic resumes including stints at NASA.

I personally wouldn't waste a femto-second of my time on them.

just a 2 second thought.. you could also market yourself as an employment agency for accountants, etc.... we have all heard of nursing agency.. why not an agency for other professionals..

anyhows, good luck..