The Apprentice Business Buzzwords game

by Paul Sparkes 28. March 2012 10:44

The Apprentice has returned to British screens, bringing with it a slew of business buzz-phrase nonsense and baffling bravado from the candidates.

No one likes a show-off, least of all the British, which is why watching the overblown confidence of each new crop of Apprentice contestants as they attempt to come up with business solutions is such a guilty pleasure. Each year they take the bravado, swagger and self-aggrandisement to stratospheric new levels. They mix it with the usual business jargon that drives people mad.

We've been thoroughly spoilt in previous series. Who can forget Stuart "The Brand" Baggs uttering the now infamous line: "I'm not a one-trick pony, I'm not a 10-trick pony - I've got a field of ponies waiting to literally run towards this job." What?

I’m sure that The Apprentice candidates are not the only ones to utter buzzword blunders, which is why the infographic below is particularly cool. If you’re bored at a business meeting or eavesdropping on a conversation at the water cooler then why no whip it out to tell the business (wo)man from the business berk?

Alternatively you could just wait until tonight’s episode of The Apprentice to really ‘push the envelope’ and gain a full scorecard …

The Apprentice is on BBC One tonight at 9pm.