Brightwater are very proud to be associated with The Apprentice television programme and welcomed the opportunity to be involved with Episode 12 which concentrated on the interviews with the final 3 candidates. We were also delighted to be asked to be the recruitment expert on the post-Apprentice programme “You’re Fired”.

While both David Bloch and Mairead Fleming represented Brightwater in Episode 12, the producers of the “The Apprentice” also wanted two other independent interviewers to be involved: Sheena Clohessy, a well known HR expert and Gavin Duffy, a familiar figure from last year’s The Apprentice and this year’s Dragons Den.  Both professional and highly respected individuals with their own businesses, we would like to clarify that they are not employed by Brightwater nor are they associated with Brightwater other than in this programme.

As a respected recruitment consultancy, Brightwater are well aware of HR best practices and understand we have a responsibility to both our clients and our candidates. We would never discriminate against anyone based on personal issues and indeed would not bring personal questions up in regular interviewing processes. However The Apprentice is an entertainment show and all fourteen candidates were fully aware of that at the outset, freely offering up personal information before and during filming of the series.

The actual interviews themselves took place over several hours. Due to time constraints, these interviews were not shown in full and therefore may have seemed out of context. Some of the questions and subsequent replies, however controversial were as a result of information coming up in conversation which the candidates mentioned themselves during the actual interview or had put on their application form. For example Steve Rayner had been open and honest from the start of filming that  he was dyslexic, and a alcoholic and gambler who had been sober for 18 months. He was happy to discuss the issues and was very impressive in the way he handled himself.

We hope this clarifies matters and we would like to state again how excited and proud we are to be part of such an entertaining and vibrant show.

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