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Old 11-06-2008, 23:02
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I have never really gotten into the apprentice until this season, i keep hearing they get a 6 figure salary etc, but what actually is their job??

What do the winners get to do, and what has happened to previous winners. do they actually do anything, or do they just go back home after the show?
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:11
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:14
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They do false CVs and are too thick to use a spell checker apparently.

(actually it depends on what is available and the strengths of the candidate, we'll probably find out what Lee is doing soon).
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:17
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=814807

thread telling of this years winner's job

last years winner, simon, works in a project for sir alan near stanstead airport
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:21
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work hard for their wage me thinks knowing SAS
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:22
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last years winner, simon, works in a project for sir alan near stanstead airport
It's a hotel and golf resort next to Hatfield Forest (which is just south of Stansted Airport). It hasn't been built yet.

The winner of series one, Tim Campbell, had to try to launch a new product for Sir Alan. It was a machine for reducing wrinkles, using electrodes.

Can't remember what the winner of series two was supposed to do!
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:33
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It's a hotel and golf resort next to Hatfield Forest (which is just south of Stansted Airport). It hasn't been built yet.

The winner of series one, Tim Campbell, had to try to launch a new product for Sir Alan. It was a machine for reducing wrinkles, using electrodes.

Can't remember what the winner of series two was supposed to do!
Michelle got the job of setting up a computer recycling company which sent them overseas to presumably be used or gutted. Michelle worked out it was a dud idea (who would want a dud computer overseas and who would pay in the UK for someone to take it apart and produce nothing worth having) and the idea died.
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Old 11-06-2008, 23:46
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I have to say I think this is an area they really need to improve on when it comes to the show. In my honest opinion, the jobs the former winners have been given have always come across as less than thrilling when we actually get to hear a little bit about them. Sir Alan certainly didn't make Lee's job sound particularly appealing tonight, Tim's job seemed like utter crap and it wasn't entirely clear what Simon's job was although from the bits and pieces others have posted it's sounded like the best of the bunch.

I realise Donald Trump is in a different class than Sir Alan in terms of the size of his company etc, but the US apprentices at least get jobs that sound quite glamorous and exciting. Obviously once you get into the nitty gritty of any job, that side of things probably loses a lot of its shine, but it'd be nice if they at least started off seeming like amazing and exciting opportunities.

I wouldn't plan on trying to get on the show, but I have to think that a lot of really great candidates are a little put off when they watch these shows and all that the candidates go through... and then they find out Lee's going to be selling advertising spots on the underground and Tim was selling wrinkle reducing crappy electronic products.

I think Sir Alan's a great man but none of these jobs sound like anything particularly special given what they've gone through to win them. Richard Branson for example may not have that certain something that Sir Alan seems to have, but with the hugely broad range products Virgin are involved in, you just know he'd be able to provide jobs with the right mix of glamour while still being jobs that these candidates would realistically be able to perform.
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