The world of recruitment, much like the world of sales, is a complicated and murky affair. Both disciplines rely extremely heavily on personalities, feelings, emotions and reactions and any attempt to distill this into black and white is usually futile.
This week’s episode of ‘The Apprentice’ is a great example....
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Another week, and another episode of The Apprentice that had me with my head in my hands on more than one occasion. I bet Lord Sugar must wish he could sack five or six of the feckless idiots at once – Jade was very lucky to survive, but she only did so because Azar displayed all of the charisma of an undertaker...
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Well, after a very slow start indeed, The Apprentice finally seems to have gotten going – I actually enjoyed last night’s episode which is a first for this series. If you missed it, Ricky Martin’s team lost the challenge (to create a new fitness regime) but for me, Ricky was the star of the show by actually...
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Well, if anyone should know a thing or two about selling a load of old rubbish to the great British public, Lord Sugar is the man. And so to episode four of this year’s The Apprentice where, in order to ascertain the ability of candidates to run a multi-million pound business by asking them to do an impression of...
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