One of the newest shows on television is bound to offer lessons for job hunters and employees, thanks to a very rich man and the guy who produced “Survivor.”

Mark Burnett’s latest production involves the corporate jungle instead of the Amazon, with grand poobah Donald Trump as the one who gets to vote people off in “The Apprentice,” a new show on NBC.

It started with 16 people, chosen from a huge list of applicants, and each week one of them gets fired by Trump, acting on advice from two aides and the applicants’ supervisors and colleagues. The one person left will be hired to run one of Trump’s companies for a year, with a salary of $250,000.

If you’re a job hunter or aspire to be in management, pay attention to the dynamics of the show. There will be a lot of office politics between the applicants, of course, but also listen to what Trump’s aides say before he decides who gets the ax.

In the first episode, for example, the men’s team was defeated, and had to lose one member. But the worker who least impressed his teammates was kept on by Trump because he showed a certain strategic spark, something that made the aides think he might have more potential than the other applicants.

The one who was fired seemed like a decent person and a smart guy, but he didn’t impress anyone with his leadership potential. For all we know, he might have been a great leader, but any job interview process is shallow and unfair. Applicants have to make a quick impression as well as a good one.

Trump is looking for a leader, and the applicant didn’t tailor his work to meet that need. So he was out.