A funny thing happened today, I got forcibly enrolled into an Intern program and got assigned a task.

It’s not as bad as it sounds, I received an email in my box describing my task (that I did not request to receive). However, it did allow me access to the procedure and instructional video. This was like having a free tour of the inside workings of a company.

What I discovered was how they recruit people to do tasks that help build their business. In this case it was a procedure for how to post an Ad on Craig’s list for admin assistance.

Basically, you do whatever the person that recruited you from Craig’s list did. So it is a viral method to gain Interns.

Interestingly, part of the procedure states that you must not ask questions since the procedure has worked for many people before.

This is a great way to build a workforce since you don’t have to do much once the procedure is in place. But before you can deploy this method of leveraging your business, you need a process that if followed step by step yields a profitable outcome.

Then it is a no-brainer decision to outsource this work at a pay level below your profit level.

Thinking of it another way, it is like programming a computer to run an algorithm, but instead of a computer, you program a biological machine (a person) to perform the task. Questions will be like bugs in your program where it got stuck, so you will need to de-bug (refine) your process to make it run smoothly without you having to intervene.

I look forward to trying this out once I have some profitable processes in place.