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With the life-changing series of The Apprentice in full-swing, Lord Sugar is halfway through his quest to finding another suitable business partner. And, last night budding entrepreneur Sarah Ann Magson was the latest candidate to be let go from the esteemed process.
The series – which follows budding businessmen and women – shadows contestants fighting for their chance to become Lord Sugar’s newest business partner, as well as win a £250,000 cash injection to kick-start their business.
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This year’s candidates, which include Camilla Ainsworth, Daniel Elahi, Jackie Fast and Jasmine Kundra, have been tasked with challenges to prove their entrepreneurial aptness. The candidates are divided into two teams ‘Collaborative’ and ‘Typhoon’ where one person is elected as the Project Manager – an opportunity to apply existing skills and industry knowledge to help them win the task.
In most cases those who are elected as Project Manager have skills that loosely relate to the industry and project at hand. While it seems like the most sensible option to match skillset to job function – and is often a technique used to divvy up tasks appropriately at work – this is not what happened in last week’s task which involved live TV selling.
