New Apprentice
A recruitment sales manager won the battle to be Sir Alan Sugar’s new apprentice last night.
On the BBC television programme, Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old, recruitment sales manager, from Buckinghamshire, landed the £100,000-a-year job.
The former employee of professional support services firm Capita told Metro newspaper that he was “wholeheartedly the man for the job”.
McQueen narrowly missed out on being fired when he famously lied about his stint at university. He claimed that he had studied at Thames Valley University in Ealing for two years, when he had only been there for four months.
McQueen told Metro: “There is an insecurity here, definitely. I am ashamed of the fact that I misconstrued information on my CV. It was an embarrassing moment.”
Gareth Osborne, former managing director of the Recruitment and Employment Conferderation (REC), condemned the appointment on his blog - Born to Blog.
“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.”
