Mark is easily the strongest candidate

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Chihiro94

30-11-2014

Originally Posted by george.millman:
“I'm not just speaking for myself! I have no doubt that some people liked her from the start, but it seems many people didn't. This was before I joined the forums, but when discussing The Apprentice socially a lot of people didn't seem to rate her very highly. On You're Fired, at the midway through the series point where they looked at the likelihood each candidate had of winning, Susan's started out near the front (after Helen, she had the strongest record) but was moved back quite quickly after the reaction of the audience. There were many, many news sources around Week 6 or 7 that suggested that she was the viewers' favourite to go the following week.

Her edit was designed to make her look naive and foolish for quite a lot of the series, specifically the 'I'm me and you're you' app and 'Are the French very fond of their children?' Of course, in hindsight I can see that that edit was unfair, but back then I wasn't quite as savvy to the bias of the editors as I am now. Obviously when we look back now we see a really fantastic candidate, but at the time she didn't earn a lot of people's respect until around Week 9 or 10. Tom had a better portrayal onscreen.”

Bib: I think thats the moment where I became very aware of the editors. It seemed odd on it's own, but then I've said things like that before and in context haven't sounded (that) stupid. It was her thinking aloud and when choosing products I think it was a reasonable thing to say. It wasn't like she was presenting to a buyer. Then it got turned into a big point in the boardroom (I think) which just seemed unfair. It wasn't a mistake of any kind, just a thought process.

george.millman

30-11-2014

Originally Posted by Chihiro94:
“Bib: I think thats the moment where I became very aware of the editors. It seemed odd on it's own, but then I've said things like that before and in context haven't sounded (that) stupid. It was her thinking aloud and when choosing products I think it was a reasonable thing to say. It wasn't like she was presenting to a buyer. Then it got turned into a big point in the boardroom (I think) which just seemed unfair. It wasn't a mistake of any kind, just a thought process.”

I can't remember if it was brought up in the boardroom, but Karren gave a very scathing interview about it. I normally like Karren, but I think she was really unfair on Susan in that instance. And it was asking questions like that that led to her managing a record-breaking win on that task.

slouchingthatch

01-12-2014

Originally Posted by Artemis1:
“I love those interviews best part of the programme .

Yes no candidate comes out of that week well at all .

I think Roisin is the winner but that depends on her business idea.

I often wonder what happens if you get a bad candidate with a great idea or vice versa.”

Neither wins, is the easy answer. I'm sure a number of decent ideas have gone by the boards but we never find out about them because the candidate is so bad they are fired long before interviews. Conversely, we have had good/great candidates with terrible business plans get themselves fired - Helen Milligan and Jim Eastwood, for instance, or more recently Jordan and Neil last year.

As I've said elsewhere, Sugar is looking for a good, credible candidate (not necessarily the best candidate) with a good, credible plan. One without the other isn't enough.

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