Wednesday, 3 June 2009

The Apprentice UK, series 5 episode 11

This week's episode was the interview episode where the candidates were all grilled about their CVs.

Lorraine predictably got roasted for her intuition and eccentric style and James McQuillan got taken apart for the jokes he put on his CV. Kate Walsh fairly sailed through hers, not putting a foot wrong.

For me, the surprises were Debra Barr and Yasmina Siadatan. Debra was brilliant in the interviews. She had toned down the aggression and was simply confident. Yasmina on the other hand fell apart. Though she runs a restaurant, she clearly had a very poor grasp of what turnover, pretax profit and post tax profit were. She was upset that the interviewer had got hold of her accounts, not knowing that every business's audited accounts are submitted to Company's House where any member of the public can view them.

In the end, Kate and Yasmina made it to the final (I had expected it to be Kate and Debra). It should be interesting to see who wins the show.

0 comments: