Apprentice Winners - where are they now ?
Discussion
anonymous said:
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40% of my staff are women and they cause much less grief than their male peers. The type of attention seeker that wants to go on the Apprentice is always going to be a handful.With our business model, someone on maternity leave is cheaper than them being on the bench.
For guys we have a d
head test, with girls we have a princess test. Fail that and there will be no job offer made.bga said:
40% of my staff are women and they cause much less grief than their male peers. The type of attention seeker that wants to go on the Apprentice is always going to be a handful.
With our business model, someone on maternity leave is cheaper than them being on the bench.
For guys we have a dhead test, with girls we have a princess test. Fail that and there will be no job offer made.
Any details of such test? Sounds interesting.With our business model, someone on maternity leave is cheaper than them being on the bench.
For guys we have a d
head test, with girls we have a princess test. Fail that and there will be no job offer made.Haha, it's not a formal test as such. We have competency based questions which are the usual stuff about how an individual has responded to situations or what they would do in a hypothetical situation. It's pretty easy to see if someone has an overinflated self opinion or thinks the world revolves around them.
Whenever I watch the Apprentice, which isn't very often, I always assume that Sugar's behaviour is just for the cameras, and that in real life, his business, just like most others of that size, is run by consensus and various people giving an opinion. Surely in real life Sugar has people working in his organisation who are better than him at certain things, and he lets them get on with it.
If he actually runs his empire like he pretends he does on telly, then I'm not surprised people don't want to stick around. And I'm also surprised it's succesful.
On telly once he said something along the lines of "well darrlin' you may well speak 6 bleedin languages, but that's no good to me". If he meant that, he's an idiot, which I doubt he is. Being able to speak 6 languages is usefull to most businesses, including his. Assuming he doesn't speak 6 languages, it would be very useful to be able to call upon someone in the organisation who does, during a contract negotiation or similar.
I can see that the Apprentice makes good telly, but if people who aren't in business get the impression that business is like that, with the boss hurling insults all day, then I think it's a shame.
If he actually runs his empire like he pretends he does on telly, then I'm not surprised people don't want to stick around. And I'm also surprised it's succesful.
On telly once he said something along the lines of "well darrlin' you may well speak 6 bleedin languages, but that's no good to me". If he meant that, he's an idiot, which I doubt he is. Being able to speak 6 languages is usefull to most businesses, including his. Assuming he doesn't speak 6 languages, it would be very useful to be able to call upon someone in the organisation who does, during a contract negotiation or similar.
I can see that the Apprentice makes good telly, but if people who aren't in business get the impression that business is like that, with the boss hurling insults all day, then I think it's a shame.
swerni said:
In the context of what he is recruiting for, how useful do you really think speaking six languages is?
I work for a global company of circa 12000 people, I doubt any one of us could speak six languages.
I'm with Alan Sugar on this one
Well, you certainly couldn't do my job without speaking at least a couple of languages. I work for a global company of circa 12000 people, I doubt any one of us could speak six languages.
I'm with Alan Sugar on this one
All kinds. Both private individuals and companies of all sizes. Public and private sector. I'm trying to think of any obvious trends, but nothing springs to mind. Obviously I do more of some kinds of work than others, but that's down to my personal specialisations.
If it's written down, it can be translated.
If it's written down, it can be translated.
JudgeMental said:
Impressive work by that girl. There really is no excuse for fatties not to lose weight if they have a bit of determination.jj12345 said:
So what? Hardly a crime!
No, it isn't a crime.The decent thing to do (IMO) would be to enjoy the raffle prize. Not sell it later on and pocket the profit you made.
Some people may like her but as I said before, after meeting her face to face she wasn't my type of person.
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