Its the grand(eur) final of The Apprentice 2012 which is being screened on a miserable Diamond Jubilee Sunday for some reason. There isn’t a task to decide who wins from the final four; just an endless round of torturous interviews conducted by Señor Sugar’s Spanish Inquisition who will tear the contestants applicants, CVs and business plans [...]
Category: Human Resources, interviews, Recruitment, The Apprentice
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Welcome to week 9 and the final 8 are awoken with the larks and head to St Pancreas station, home of Europe’s longest champagne bar, which is supposed to be impressive apparently. Anyway, the team’s task this week is to bring British sparkling wine to the forefront of the nation’s psyche. Good luck with that, [...]
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
Tags: Alan Sugar, BBCApprentice, British sparkling wine, Episode 9, The Apprentice
We are going all arty for this week’s task as the teams are tasked with finding a couple of ‘street’ artists and selling their work to the uber-trendy mob of the east end of London. With her fantastic efforts in sprucing up charity shop furniture from a couple of weeks back, Gabrielle has grasped the [...]
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
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Its business by numbers again, as this week the teams will be buying more junk and selling it onto a junk-hungry pubic who will seemingly buy anything. Jade has stepped up or rather ordered to do so by Alan, and taken charge of Phoenix and bird-nest barnet Nick grabs the helm over in Sterling. This [...]
Category: Recruitment, The Apprentice
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Last night’s episode left a little bit of a disappointing aftertaste, akin to the injustice of Andy Dufresne from the wonderful Shawshank Redemption; the wrong person was fired or sent to prison, I’m sure that metaphor worked in my head. Anyway, let’s have a quick recap of the night’s fun and frolics. Given two days to come [...]
Category: The Apprentice
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After three episodes where the contestants have sold tat to the public, guess what week four has in store? This week’s task saw the remaining 13 business brains buying junk from auctions, car boot sales, junk shops and dead people’s houses and then selling it on to the uber-cool socialites of Brick Lane over in [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: Motivating Staff, Recruitment Process, Talent Acquisition, The Apprentice
Week three of The Apprentice and we have still to see Jane crack a smile. However, stony faced Jane was part of the winning team this week, with a task set by the Sugermeister to concoct a condiment and then inflict it on a general public who will seemingly buy anything if you tell them it’s organic. [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: candidates, Recruitment Advice, Recruitment Process, The Apprentice
Poundshop Gadgets Ding Ding. Its round 2 of the reality show which never fails to prove that a sharp suit doesn’t always mean a sharp mind. After all, what could be easier than developing a gadget and pitching it to Amazon and the slightly less well known Lakeland? Given two whole days, the best that [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: candidates, Interviews, Recruitment, The Apprentice
Style vs Substance Can it really be only a year since Jedi Jim hypnotised us with his Gaelic charms and the mad professor from Back to the Future somehow blundered his way to victory? It’s time to settle down for another 12 weeks to watch our favourite business idiots attempt to sell coal to eskimos [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: Interviews, Onboarding, Online Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, The Apprentice
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