Sunday, December 11, 2005

The Apprentice

It's already down to final 2 in this 13 weeks job interview. NO, it's not Survivor. Survivors sucks anyway, & NO, it's not Amazing Race either, although Amazing Race rocks. It's The Apprentice season 4. It's winners take all, losers go home scenario now with Randal & Rebecca left in the game. So who will be the next apprentice?

In case you don't know who this 2 person is, here's a little information about them.

Randal
Randal, 34, is the founder, president and CEO of his fifth venture "BCT Partners," a multi-million dollar management, technology and policy consulting firm based in Newark, N.J., that works with corporations, government agencies, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Hightstown, N.J., he holds five academic degrees in engineering, business and technology including a B.S. from Rutgers University, an M.S. from the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.S., M.B.A. and Ph.D. from MIT. A former college championship track and field athlete, he has received numerous awards for his accomplishments as an entrepreneur and technologist including the National Society of Black Engineers "National Member of the Year."

A Leadership New Jersey Fellow and Next Generation Leadership Fellow, Randal has been featured by Black Enterprise magazine and Ebony magazine in their "30 Leaders of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in Somerset, N.J., where he resides and is happily married to his wife Zahara.


Randal is representing team Excel in his final task. Up till now, all the task he took up as project manager had secure a win for him, with a record of 100% winning rate. I know i'm his supporter up till now.

Rebecca
Rebecca, 23, was named "One of 20 Teens Who Will Change the World" by Teen People magazine in February 2000 and was awarded a Point of Light by President Clinton. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago, earning degrees in economics and pre-law.

As a Chicago-based investment banker, she structured mergers and acquisitions, as well as equity and debt transactions. Prior to that, she traded short-term interest rate options on Citigroup's foreign exchange desk in London.

Outside of business, Rebecca founded a non-profit organization, raising over $750,000 to support disenfranchised children. In conjunction with this effort, she lobbied state and federal government officials, speaking at a wide range of national conferences and sharing the stage with Al Gore and Colin Powell, among others. She also reported on-air, wrote and helped produce hard news, features, and entertainment segments for a weekly show on an NBC affiliate in her hometown of Minneapolis. She is currently a financial journalist in Chicago.

Rebecca is representing team Capital Edge in her final task. Although with a record not as remarkable as Randal, but her on-spot performance so far is magnificent. Having difficulties to walk throughout the episodes (she tripped while playing ice-hockey), she endures it & challenged herself to stay on. Truly someone with a strong will.


Now, with episode 13 released already, there's only 1 more episode left to wait for, i think. So who will you vote for? Who do you think Donald Trump will hire as his next apprentice?

ChiM

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