But that's because none of them are performed by a vampire who looks like he's half Rylan from X Factor and half Alex from The Apprentice, and who sings like brief 1960s novelty pop sensation Mrs Miller.
As firms make considerable investments in apprentices, particularly during the first half of the training period, apprentice pay would in fact have to be negative to ensure that firms could be reimbursed for their training expenditures.
The further education sector delivers the bulk of current apprenticeships – almost 300,000 were studied last year – and it is battling critical skills shortages by training half of the country's apprentices in construction, manufacturing and engineering.
I think this happened with The Apprentice, where half of the male candidates had beards – a sign that they have gone pretty much mainstream now.
The real fear may be a vague nervousness about foreigners, given that about 15% of companies cited unspecified cultural barriers.Yet applicants are in short supply: nearly half of the companies that could take apprentices but don't blame a lack of qualified candidates.
CBS then countered by moving the new episode of "C.S.I". to Thursday from 9 to 10, against the second half-hour of the second episode of "The Apprentice," to be preceded by another rerun of "C.S.I".
That meant I spent most of my day reading The Art of the Deal and half-watching the entire first season of The Apprentice.
If half of all apprentices dropped out before completing the apprenticeship then the employer would on average incur a net cost of training of around £54,500 per apprentice.
Although she became third on her series of the Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar - the entrepreneur lynchpin of the U.K. version of the show - invested £250,000 for half the business.
While Latinos make up a little over one-third of California's labor force, they represent more than half of all new apprentice ironworkers (53 percent), just over one-third (34percentt) of electrical workers, and one-fifth (23percentt) of operating engineers.
Series seven of The Apprentice looms.
