Just an idea

[mangosteen]

I have a business idea. I currently lack the resources to execute on it, but I want it to exist in the world, and I'm confident I'll come up with more ideas. So, have at it.

Business Idea: Internet Image Consultancy. There are tons of college juniors and seniors that launch themselves at the job/internship market every year. Over the past few years, three things have happened:

1) They all have accounts on LiveJournal, MySpace, and Facebook.
2) They publically post the somewhat questionable things that college students tend to put up on those websites.
3) Employers know how to type a name into a search engine to find this stuff.

Here's the pitch. 30 seconds. Start the clock.

In the work world of today, your interview starts long before the phone screen. You give us three months lead time, and we will tidy up the trail you've left on the net. We'll do the same searches employers would do. We'll talk with entities about removing things you've put up on the Internet. We'll help you clean up your MySpace pages, along with all the other places you've left information about yourself, and make them look like you're a multitalented young adult ready to enter the work world. In short, we will use our resources to make your Internet presence look to be the very picture of employability. What do you think?

Have fun.

Comments

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm surprised that staffing companies don't already do this. Except of course they'd keep a record of everything that they got 'taken down' and then sell that too.

You'd make much more $$ if you "erased" what's out there on the web, kept a copy, and sold it for big bucks to employers as a "lookup" service -- but then you'd be evil.