Dumbing Down Recruitment (again)

Well I have to say I was stunned when Sir Alan hired ex-recruiter Lee McQueen in the finale of The Apprentice last night and passed on the ballsy and talented Claire Young. I can only think AMS is going to find a role for him in football; I’m thinking Wide Boys United.

There can’t be many Recruiters (especially Capita) who can be proud of Lee’s achievement after the damning interview session in Week 11 when Sir Alan’s ‘aids’ determined that he lied on his CV (Was anyone else desperate to know what he was doing for the unaccounted for 20 months?) and made more spelling mistakes than the ‘pimp who bought the warehouse’. Surely these are the two Cardinal Sins for any Candidate!

What a damning indictment for the Recruitment Industry that one of its own could get it so terribly wrong! Surely this is going to give every one of our Industry’s critics a field day when they want to suggest we don’t do an honest or professional job.

Perhaps we will even see the establishment of a new defining term for CV abuse; ‘Doing a Lee McQueen’.

Recruiter Magazine (who recently described him as ‘Recruitment’s champion’ yet dropped the word Professional from its own title some years ago) could now introduce the Lee McQueen Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement to acknowledge occurrences where Standard’s reach a new, all-time, low.

Now I have to confess to making the odd grammatical gaff myself but I would certainly make a good attempt to ensure my CV was spot on if I was going to have it exposed to 12 million TV viewers and might lose the contest; needing to use it again in the future. Surely he knows someone who could have checked it for him; perhaps not!

For Claire, I hope Karen Brady is true to her word when she told Sir Alan, “If you don’t hire her, I will!” I think this is definitely a case of Sir Alan Sugar 0 Karen Brady 1.

Having said that … I have no doubt that Lee will fit in perfectly at the AMS Empire and do a few good deals for the Chief Geezer.

Gareth