Alan Sugar summons the candidates to Imperial College London, where they discover their next task - to design a piece of wearable technology. It needs to combine fashion with cutting-edge kit, and after creating their prototypes, they will be pitching their products to retailers. It's boys versus girls again, and while one team comes up with a hi-tech jacket, the others work on a sweatshirt-cum-video camera. However, when sales day arrives, it's touch-and-go whether one group will have a product at all, while a slip of the tongue threatens to ruin a pitch - two errors that surely won't be forgiven in the boardroom.
The Apprentice sees fourteen candidates, competing against each other for a position at Lord Alan Sugar's company. Each week the candidates take part in a task set by Lord Sugar. Each team will have a Team Leader who managers that group for that task.
The team that performs the best will win a reward and avoid the boardroom. The losing team will be summoned to the boardroom where their team leader will be forced to pick two people in their team who we join them in the boardroom and a chance to be fired.
After twelve weeks Lord Sugar will be left with his Apprentice, who will work for him at a salary of £100,000. Lord Sugar is very busy so he has Nick and Karen, who act as his eyes and ears, to inform him of what's going on.