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The Apprentice is an unscripted drama in which 16 - 18 candidates from all walks of life, including both Ivy League MBA graduates and street entrepreneurs with no college education, endure rigorous tasks each week while living together in a hip Manhattan loft apartment. The tasks test their intelligence, chutzpah and street-smarts. They face the challenges of living in close quarters and must compete sometimes humorous but always difficult job assignments and are forced to think outside the box in order to outshine each other to get to the top.
Upon their arrival to New York City (some for the very first time), the candidates are rushed over to Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump, the centerpiece and driving force of this series. After splitting the group into two teams of eight, Trump then issues the first task. Teams are given time constraints for each task and they are observed by trusted members of his staff, Carolyn Kepcher and George Ross, at every moment along the way. At the conclusion of each task, the winning team is granted a lavish reward but the losing team must report to Trump’s boardroom where one of them is then fired.
Each week's tasks incorporate various aspects of business: sales, marketing, promotions, charities, real estate deals, finance, advertising pitches and facilities management. Most of them are assignments that executives face in their daily lives. The big twist is that the teams are thrown out to the wolves of the New York business world with only a few days (and sometimes only mere hours) to complete incredibly difficult tasks, many of which have hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. This is the ultimate corporate jungle where staying alive means using both street smarts and book smarts.
The winner of the competition, the true "apprentice," is granted the a one-year dream job of a lifetime with The Trump Organization and a salary of $250,000.
(Show recap paraphrased from Reality TV World article.)