The Caterer Blog

Leading hospitality institution Thames Valley University received some great exposure on the BBC last night when Sir Alan Sugar's Apprentice put its remaining candidates through a full day of tortuous interviews in order to weed out the men from the boys.

But TVU unexpectedly got thrown into the limelight when it became clear during one of the candidate's discussions that he had been fibbing about an HCIMA course on his CV.

Asked how long he had spent at the university, recruitment sales manager Lee McQueen, who was one of four others in the running for Sir Alan's six-figure-salary job, claimed he had spent two years at Slough but had not completed the course.

But it turns out, following some research by the interviewer, that McQueen spent only four months studying for his hospitality-based qualification. How someone who specialises in recruitment thinks this is acceptable is beyond me. What percentage of people lie on their CVs?

Although Sir Alan was shocked to hear about this blatant lying, McQueen remains as one of four candidates now that colour-me-beautiful Lucinda has been fired. 

It must have been McQueen's unusual impersonations of a pterodactyl that saved it for him. Now that's what I'm talking about.