By Jim Symcox on Jun 23, 2008 in Alex Wotherspoon, Claire Young, Helene Speight, Jennifer Celerier, Jennifer Maguire, Kevin Shaw, Lee McQueen, Michael Sophocles, Raef Bjayal, Series 4, Simon Smith, The Apprentice | 0 Comments
So now we’ve got the result we wanted from the Apprentice. A winner! Was it the one we wanted… And was the hiring fair? See what you think.
By Jim Symcox on May 15, 2008 in Claire Young, Jennifer Celerier, Jennifer Maguire, Michael Sophocles, Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice | 0 Comments
Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentice Candidates demonstrate how not to negotiate in Marrakesh. Was the firing fair? It’s easy to decide with the benefit of hindsight – that doesn’t mean it’s less fun though!
By Jim Symcox on May 7, 2008 in Claire Young, Jennifer Celerier, Kevin Shaw, Series 4, Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice | 0 Comments
Margaret and Nick gave the following card sales figures: Renaissance Sales Alpha Sales Card Buyers Tesco 6,000 1,500 Clinton’s 0 1,500 Celebrations 0 19,500 Obviously Renaissance, Kevin’s team, with the ridiculous Environmental Day lost. The more I see of Kevin the more I wonder how he expects to be the best businessman [...]
By Jim Symcox on May 1, 2008 in Claire Young, Jennifer Celerier, Kevin Shaw, Raef Bjayal, Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice | 0 Comments
The Apprentice who has the strongest personality wins through to the later rounds more easily than those who don’t speak up. However, for stronger personality read “the ability to ride rough shod over anyone else.” Certainly Jenny is a major proponent of talking over people. And in this task she takes this skill to a [...]
By Jim Symcox on Apr 10, 2008 in Claire Young, Jennifer Celerier, Jennifer Maguire, Lindi Mngaza, Raef Bjayal, Series 4, Simon Smith, Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice | 1 Comment
Food and the Apprentice clowns (sorry candidates) should never be mixed. That is unless you want broad entertainment. And that’s what we got with tonight’s episode. First of all Ian Stringer was chosen by Sir Alan as lead entertainer for the boys and quickly chose his scapegoat (oh sorry, I meant head chef). The top [...]
By Jim Symcox on Apr 5, 2008 in Jennifer Celerier, Raef Bjayal, Series 4, Sir Alan Sugar, The Apprentice | 1 Comment
Running an industrial laundry and pitching to clean clothes isn’t as straightfoward as team Alpha thinks…