Apprentice Candidates
GERALDINE O'CALLAGHAN is a qualified Beauty Specialist and Fitness Instructor but currently works as an accounts manager for Crystal Clear Skincare.
She feels she can impress Bill as she comes from a very similar background. She is currently studying to become a beauty and fitness instructor.
The Candidate Highs and Lows
What she brings to the table:
Her family are street traders and growing up she chipped in on the stall, gaining great sales experience.
Geraldine is already standing out as a strong contender for The Apprentice title. She has proven her ability to sell and her ability to defend herself when up against the other candidates.
Episode 1:
HIGH: Showed great enthusiasm selling ice-cream on Grafton Street. Demonstrated her strong selling skills.
Episode 3:
HIGH: Offered lots of opinions in the advertising campaign task, noted by Jackie.
Episode 4:
HIGH: Gets stuck into the task and wins as project manager.
Episode 5:
LOW: Took her eye off the task and spent more time flirting with Breffny than she should have.
Episode 6:
HIGH: Negotiated the printing costs down.
Episode 7:
LOW: Again spent time flirting with Breffny.
Episode 8:
LOW: Spouting out the word "hammered" in her presentation. Not really the environment for slang.
Episode 9:
LOW: Allowed Breffny to take one of her sales
Episode 11:
HIGH:Worked well in the radio studio.
Episode 12:
HIGH:Was complemented for lighting up the room
LOW:Fired in week 12 - just not ready yet for this opportunity
Quotes
Episode 2:
"Daddy can't buy you cop on in Trinity College"
Episode 3:
"He is sending us on a wild goose chase."
"In actual fact I have done most of the creativity."
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I'm only in here because I'm not in Setanta's clique."
Episode 4:
"I'd really like to roll up my sleeves and get stuck in."
"Bill, it was a gamble."
Episode 5:
"Ah ya little daisy."
"Get down off your high horse (to Breff)."
"Stop the traffic like everyone else when filming a shoot."
Episode 6:
"Brendan is great at talking fluff. He talks the talk but cannot walk the walk."
Episode 7:
"If you don't do innovation on this task you might as well go out there and buy yourself a rope" (to Breff)
"He put the girls in their place."
"I would like to see a lot more passion out of you on the stage" (on Ruth)
"Their heads are so far up their own arse, they can't see what is going on around them."
Episode 8:
"The spin that we put on it is (in relation to her product)"
"As soon as she is in here, she starts singing like a canary."
Episode 9:
"It's exactly the same thing Robbie Fowler wore when he was in Liverpool"
"I'll make the sale then put it into your book (to Breffny)"
"I handed her a golden ticket (about Aoiffe)"
Episode 10:
"It doesn't matter about anything being nice, I just want cheap."
Episode 11:
"How come you are not dripping in gold yourself?"
"Because its jewellery, I think I can get the classy element into it."
"Stephen has such a big ego"
"If you took into account all the bad things that are said in here, you would roll into a corner and die."
Episode 12:
"I'm presuming I come across charming"
"I can be loyal like a puppy, but I can bite like a Rottweiler."
