BUDDING entrepreneur Jenny Garbis is hoping to impress Lord Sugar and his advisers and win herself a role as his apprentice.

The 23-year-old Bournemouth University graduate aims to beat 17 other contestants on the BBC tv show The Apprentice, which airs next week. (Oct 15).

She graduated this summer with a first class degree in business studies and describes herself as, "an adrenaline junkie who is only happy when she's busy".

She said: “You will see my name in lights – Jenny Garbis, don’t forget that. That’s going to be a global name. That’s going to be an entrepreneur everyone looks up to."

Carly Lamont, a lecturer on her business studies course. said: "“Jenny joined BU in 2012 and was a fantastic student with unbelievable levels of enthusiasm and commitment to her studies as well as her longer term career aspirations. She is a delightful young lady who knows her own mind and is driven to succeed in everything she does.

“She's hard working and extremely self-motivated which was demonstrated when she achieved a First in her BA (Hons) Business Studies degree here at BU despite having to complete a number of final year assignments (and examinations) under extreme time constraints due to the demands of The Apprentice selection process and later, participation in the series.”

The first episode at 9pm on Thursday October 15 will see them being tested on key business skills of product creation, negotiation and selling.

The mixed teams are sent off to Billingsgate Market, the capital’s famous fish market, to pick up seafood at the best price possible. They then have to turn their stock into lunch to feed hungry Londoners while making as much profit as possible.

Other tasks in the new series will involve creating an advertising campaign for shampoo, selling pet products, closing real estate and producing a new health snack.

Jenny will be hoping not to hear those soul-destroying words “You’re fired” and make it through the boardroom drama as she competes to become Lord Sugar’s new business partner and win a £250k investment.