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Date: 10 April 2008 12:43:27
Last night we watched The Apprentice. This is about the only "reality" TV programme that I'll watch. It concentrates more on business than it does on sex lives or competitors undergoing mental breakdowns live on national TV.
One of the things that has struck me most about the new series is the low calibre of the contestants. It is bad enough that we are watching a 12 week interview for a job, or a media career, but you'd expect that you'd see quality candidates. After all these are the 16 best candidates from the 20,000 that applied. Personally we think that they've gone for the 16 most TV friendly people.
There is not 1 candidate that you would really want to emply yourself. They all seem to have this belief that they are the cream of the British business scene. In fact they are a bunch of under achievers with ego problems. Working as a team is difficult enough normally but introduce the prospect of a £100,000 and the knives start to appear.
It is difficult to believe that these "high flyers" can't even get the basics right. Who really starts producing a menu without working out the unit cost and then setting the margin? If you are given a list of wholesalers, who will supply you, do you really shop at the local Tesco's for your food?
Yet the thning that really stands out are the delusions of the candidates. The majority seem to believe that they are already high class business people, worthy of an excutive position on £100k per year. Yet they all appear to be wet behind the ears graduates with little experience of the business world.
If you don't believe that people lie on their CV's just look at this bunch of losers; I don't think any of them have the experience, current position or apptitude for the job. Yet this is nothing new. Only 1 apprentice has so far lasted 12 months within the Sugar organistion. The rest have left early, for one reason or another.
The other thing is that many of the candidates seem to have been chosen to match stereotypes from the previous series. There is even a Katie character, similar in looks and dress but not personality.
I still think that unsuitable candidates should be eliminated completely. This would increase my faith in the Darwinian theory of natural selection.