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Top tip: "You're not a big fish. You're not even a fish"

By Sean O'Neill

18 May 2011

We were all mesmerised by in series six of The Apprentice, but for all the wrong reasons. The fact is, you are currently a little fish in a very big pond, so a healthy balance of confidence and humility is what you need to demonstrate in interviews. While you need to put a positive spin on the key elements of your CV, don’t Baggs it up and venture into a fantasy kingdom that you cannot defend.

And if for some reason the interviewer suggests you might not be very versatile, for goodness’ sake don’t say: “I’m not a one-trick pony, I’m not a 10-trick pony. I’ve got a whole field of ponies waiting, literally, to run towards this.”

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