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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 6

When you order a pizza online and opt to track your order, there’s a step the tracker displays before “Out for Delivery”, and it’s usually called “Quality Control”. A lot of people think this is just to cover extended delivery, but this is actually a crucial stage of the pizza delivery process....

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12 Words That Ruin Resumes

Project management employment opportunities are highly competitive. Jobseekers cannot afford to make poor word choices on their resume. Unfortunately, no matter how qualified you are, there’s always the risk of misrepresenting yourself. Just one word choice can colour a company’s perception of you....

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ILX’s The Apprentice Review: Episode 5

This week, The Apprentice brought us one of the most popular reoccurring tasks of the series: the “Buying Task”. Each team had to obtain nine obscure items, all at the lowest price possible, before returning to the House of Lords by 7pm. The teams incur fines for missing items or being late, but the...

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ILX’s The Apprentice Review: Episode 4

It’s week 4. Once again the candidates were tasked to produce a luxury experience from a not-so luxury budget. The teams needed to deliver a VIP hospitality box experience at Wembley Stadium for the women’s FA Cup final, and run a food stall outside during the game. Although the clients could demand...

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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 3

This week, the teams were tasked to program a robot to sell to larger retailers, then select a toy to sell to smaller retailers. Despite Team Vitality out-selling Team Graphene in smaller toy sales by a massive £4,308.05, they received no larger orders. Graphene’s impressive total order value of £57...

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The Future of e-Learning

The value of the e-learning market is expected to reach about $331 billion by 2025. A lot of research and development goes into e-learning solutions. So what will the market look like by then, and what new features will we promote? These are three areas that we predict will receive a lot of attentio...

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ILX's The Apprentice Review: Episode 2

Interior Decorating? It's a Numbers Game It’s Week 2. There’s still a weird gender war, the tasks are simpler, and the prizes for the winners aren’t quite helicopter rides and champagne yet. This week, the teams were given a room each in the gorgeous, luxury Stoke Park Hotel to design, decorate and...

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